Ethereum Foundation core member Josh Stark will resign, having led major upgrades such as The Merge.

ME News report: On April 16 (UTC+8), Ethereum Foundation (EF) core figure Josh Stark announced his resignation. After serving for five years, he will officially step down at the end of the month. Stark joined the Ethereum Foundation in 2019, initially working in the Special Projects team, later promoted to a leadership role. He has worked with senior executives including EF Chair Aya Miyaguchi, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, and co-executive directors Hsiao-Wei Wang and Bastian Aue. He is one of the most prominently visible members of the foundation to the public. Stark has led multiple major Ethereum developments, including the “The Merge” upgrade that transitioned from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, as well as subsequent upgrades such as Dencun, Fusaka, and Pectra. During last year’s leadership reshuffle at the foundation, he was appointed as a “co-manager” of the EF Board of Directors, and has recently taken on the role of co-chair of the “Trillion-Dollar Security” initiative. Last month, Stark, along with Josh Rudolf and Julian Ma, co-authored an Ethereum strategy blog post explaining Ethereum’s latest scaling direction and how it relates to the Layer 2 ecosystem. Stark said, “I haven’t planned my future yet. I just want to rest well and spend time with my family and friends.” This resignation comes amid ongoing changes at the Ethereum Foundation.

Last year, the foundation underwent major leadership adjustments; since then, it has refocused its strategic priorities on scaling Ethereum mainnet and core cypherpunk values. Tomasz K. Stańczak also resigned from his co-executive director position at the end of February this year, having served less than a year. On the same day, Trent Van Epps also announced that he would leave EF to devote himself full-time to the Protocol Guild, an independent organization he founded to fund core Ethereum developers.

(Source: ChainCatcher)