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ETH Ethereum Foundation disbands agreement support team
The Ethereum Foundation has disbanded its agreement support team as part of a broader reorganization after the nonprofit organization recently laid off about 20 percent of its workforce.
Summary
The Ethereum Foundation disbanded its agreement support team after five years of coordinating upgrades, developer conferences and scholarship projects around the world. Several team members lost their positions in the foundation\'s recently announced 20% layoffs. Work on the core protocol will continue to advance under the new structure of the Ethereum Foundation, but the future of some supported projects is unclear.
The protocol support team has coordinated multiple aspects of the Ethereum development process, including core developer meetings, network upgrade tracking, Ethereum improvement proposal support, and projects to train contributors to the new protocol.
The agreement support team account confirmed its dissolution on the X platform, and invited Ethereum-related organizations interested in seeking experienced developers to contact former team members.
Mario Havel, who has worked on the agreement support team for more than five years, said he himself remains at the Ethereum Foundation. But he confirmed that his team had been disbanded and several colleagues had lost their positions. \"I am still a member of the Ethereum Foundation, continuing my work and thinking about what I need most in the future,\" Havel wrote on the X platform.\"However, the entire team I am part of-the protocol support team, the team I have been involved in for more than five years, has been disbanded.\"
Havel described the dissolution as a \"bitter end\" for the team, which has supported Ethereum\'s core development process in various forms and leadership changes.
Theteam has managed key Ethereum developer projects
The protocol support team has helped organize an \"All Core Developer Meeting\" where the client team and researchers discuss proposed upgrades. It also supports group meetings, tracks network fork readiness, and helps contributors understand Ethereum\'s technology roadmap.
The team maintains Forkcast, a platform that publicly tracks Ethereum upgrades, proposed EIPs, testnet launches, and mainnet activation plans. Former team leader William Morris said the reorganization ended his work with the Ethereum Foundation.
The protocol support team also runs the Ethereum Protocol Scholarship Program, which aims to train developers who want to contribute to the Ethereum core protocol and connect participants with client teams, researchers and other technical groups.
Havel said he and former colleague Josh Davis co-built the scholarship program over four years. The project has brought dozens of new developers to the Ethereum core development community. The foundation opened applications for the seventh Ethereum Agreement Scholarship in April this year. The existing statement did not say whether the current issue would continue under other teams.
Dissolution follows larger layoffs at the foundation
The team\'s dissolution occurred after the Ethereum Foundation announced its new organizational structure on June 23. After months of reviewing activities and expenses, the foundation cut 54 positions, or about 20% of its total workforce. The foundation reorganized its work into five major areas: protocol layer, access layer, user layer, community layer and institutional layer, with an independent team responsible for operation and management.
The foundation said that affected employees will receive severance pay, career transformation support and subsidies for related expenses. The foundation says the changes are necessary and aim to focus employees and resources on the work that the organization will have to undertake in the next few years.
The dissolution also occurred after an earlier adjustment of Ethereum\'s research and development structure. The foundation scaled back the protocol research and development team in 2025 and renamed the remaining team to the protocol team.
Core protocol work is still advancing
The new protocol cluster is still responsible for the underlying technology of Ethereum, and its established tasks include securely delivering upgrades, reducing technical complexity, and improving privacy, security and censorship resistance. Ethereum developers are also pushing ahead with the Glamstam upgrade, which includes changes to block construction, data access and network performance.
However, the foundation has not publicly stated how support responsibilities for each agreement will be transferred. As a result, the future management of developer conferences, Forkcast, scholarship programs and EIP support remains unclear. Protocol development does not rely on one team at the foundation, as Ethereum client developers, researchers and independent contributors are spread across multiple organizations. However, the protocol support team has provided coordination services to connect many groups during network upgrades.
