The Ethereum Foundation said it has completed a months-long reorganization that leaves the nonprofit with 54 fewer colleagues, or roughly 20% of the EF, as it reshapes how it supports the Ethereum ecosystem.

The foundation described the change as part of implementing its mandate and treasury management policy. Its new structure is organized around five work clusters: protocol, access, user, community, and institutional layers. It also includes an operations cluster and a management-support cluster.

The protocol cluster is framed as the EF's core technical responsibility: hardening and scaling Ethereum while preserving censorship resistance, open source development, privacy, security, and self-sovereignty. The access and user clusters are intended to connect that protocol work to infrastructure, wallets, applications, user research, and education.

The EF said the employees leaving will receive severance and transition support. The severance package is the greater of one month's pay per year worked at the EF or the amount required by the person's local jurisdiction, matching terms offered in earlier departures.

CoinDesk reported the cuts in the context of recent senior leadership turnover and broader debate over Ethereum's roadmap, ecosystem fragmentation, and institutional positioning. The foundation's own post did not frame the restructuring as a retreat from Ethereum development, instead saying the resulting organization is "leaner and more focused" and that more detail about engagement with the new structure will follow in the coming weeks and months.