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

ME News, April 16 (UTC+8): Ethereum Foundation (EF) core figure Josh Stark announced his resignation. After five years in the role, he will formally step down at the end of the month. Stark joined the Ethereum Foundation in 2019, initially working in the Special Projects team before being promoted to leadership. He has worked alongside EF Chair Aya Miyaguchi, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, co-executive directors Hsiao-Wei Wang and Bastian Aue, and other senior executives. He is one of the most visibly prominent members of the foundation, and has led several major Ethereum developments, including the “The Merge” upgrade transitioning from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, as well as subsequent upgrades such as Dencun, Fusaka, and Pectra. During last year’s executive-level 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, together with Josh Rudolf and Julian Ma, co-authored an Ethereum strategy blog post outlining Ethereum’s latest scaling direction and its relationship with the Layer 2 ecosystem. Stark said, “I haven’t planned my future yet; I just want to take a good rest first and spend time with my family and friends.”

This resignation occurs amid ongoing transformation at the Ethereum Foundation. Last year, the foundation went through major leadership changes, and since then has re-focused its strategic priorities on scaling Ethereum’s mainnet and core cypherpunk values. Tomasz K. Stańczak also resigned from his co-executive director position at the end of February this year, after serving for less than a year. On the same day, Trent Van Epps also announced that he was leaving EF to fully dedicate himself to the Ethereum core developer independent funding organization Protocol Guild that he founded.

(Source: ChainCatcher)