The Ethereum Foundation is restructuring the Protocol team, focusing on L1, blob scaling, and user experience improvements.

Gate News bot message, on June 2, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) merged its protocol development department, renaming it as “Protocol”. The new plan will focus resources on three technical priorities: expanding the base layer, increasing the blob capacity of the L2 network, and enhancing user experience.

The protocol will guide coders, researchers, and project coordinators to follow a common roadmap, using these priorities as the sole benchmark for funding and personnel allocation.

Tim Beiko and Ansgar Dietrichs will direct the work at base layer scale, Alex Stokes and Francesco D’Amato will oversee L2 throughput and blob design, and Barnabé Monnot and Josh Rudolf will guide the UX project. In addition, Dankrad Feist will advise on each project.

The foundation defines this restructuring as a response to the broad demand for zkEVM rollup, strengthened L2 systems, and Ethereum as a settlement engine.

By bringing the team under one roof, the Protocol aims to shorten the path from research paper to production code and establish a tighter feedback loop between client, cryptography, and interface work.

The number of operational staff in the Protocol has decreased. The foundation confirmed that some researchers and engineers left during the restructuring and encouraged other Ethereum companies to hire these talents.

The team leader is clearly responsible for code quality and peer reviews, and must demonstrate measurable progress on these three priorities at regular checkpoints.

The new architecture has also adjusted Ethereum’s internal governance forum. The protocol will redefine the meeting agenda and propose new community feedback channels on issues such as hard fork timing, security reviews, and blob pricing policies, with the aim of transforming on-chain signals and developer feedback into an accurate version.

The protocol is now open for the recruitment of user experience managers and performance engineering managers, while inviting more applicants with expertise in kernel-level or cryptographic areas.

In addition, the team plans to hold workshops in conjunction with external client teams and L2 builders to refine execution layer changes and blob compression technology before the next network upgrade. The protocol will operate under the new framework immediately.