#以太坊基金会重组降本 According to information released by the Ethereum Foundation's official channels and co-founder Vitalik Buterin, this restructuring is a major strategic shift, focusing on significantly reducing costs, streamlining the team, and repositioning the foundation as a lighter protocol governance entity.

📉 Core of the restructuring: Major "cost reduction"

· Layoffs and Budget: Laid off 54 people (about 20%), and reduced the annual budget by approximately 40%.
· Financial Goals: The annual expenditure as a proportion of the treasury will gradually decrease from 15% to 5% after 2030, shifting toward a more sustainable "donation fund" model.

🏛️ Organizational Structure and Strategic "Restructuring"

· New Framework: Reorganized into five major clusters: protocol layer, access layer, user layer, community layer, and institutional layer, plus operations and management sections.
· Function Contraction: The foundation shifts from a "core builder" to a "lightweight maintainer," focusing on core tasks such as protocol security and anti-censorship, while reducing investments in large cross-domain projects.
· Ecosystem Overhaul: Along with the structural adjustments, nine senior executives have resigned since January, including the co-executive director. Meanwhile, several former researchers have established independent organizations like Ethlabs, taking on market-oriented functions such as institutional adoption.

💡 Significance of this Restructuring

This adjustment is seen by outsiders as a response to past criticisms of "slow organizational efficiency and vague strategic expression." In simple terms, it allows the neutral foundation to focus on safeguarding the "correctness" of Ethereum, while more market-oriented new organizations (like Ethlabs) work to demonstrate Ethereum's "effectiveness"—that is, its ability to attract capital, applications, and institutions.