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Ethereum news: Foundation leadership shake-up: Tomasz Stańczak to leave co-executive director role
Tomasz Stańczak will leave his role after guiding the Ethereum Foundation through prior turbulence and restructuring, with a successor named and plans to stay involved.
- Today, Tomasz Stańczak announced he will step down as co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation at the end of February 2026, having co-led since early 2025.
- Amid calls that the EF had lost touch with developers, Stańczak joined after Aya Miyaguchi moved into a new leadership role, helping prompt a leadership restructuring.
- The foundation's board appointed Bastian Aue as interim co-executive director effective immediately, praising his prior focus on grants, enterprise and operations and endorsements from Aya Miyaguchi and Vitalik Buterin.
- Shifting roles, Tomasz Stańczak will focus on hands-on product work and remain involved with founders in frontier tech and Ethereum, describing the foundation as `in a healthy state`.
- Less than a year after joining, Stańczak brought fresh energy and boosted Ethereum Foundation responsiveness, which supporters say may shape the foundation’s strategic future.
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Ethereum news: Foundation leadership shake-up: Tomasz Stańczak to leave co-executive director role
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