According to external sources, discussions around governance, funding and core development support continued to warm up following the recent successive departures of the Etherak Foundation. The co-founder of Zcash and co-founder of StarkWare, Eli Ben-Sasson, publicly stated that he did not want to be part of the Zcash party or to endorse the status quo.
Personnel changes continue to ferment in recent months.
It is reported that at least eight senior members of the Ether Fountain Foundation have left in the past five months. The most recent development was the departure of Hsiao-Wei Wang, a co-executive and board member. This chain of changes coincides with increased competition from other public chains.
In addition to personnel issues, development funding has become an external focus. Trent Van Epps, a former contributor to the Taifung Foundation, has previously indicated that, as the Foundation reduces its expenditures and the client incentive scheme (CIP) expires, its core development may face a “slow fermenting” financial pressure in the next 3 to 9 months.
Ben-Sasson claims that the Taiji has advantages and political factors.
Ben-Sasson stated on the social platform that his statement was not intended to criticize the Etherwood Foundation or to claim that it had reached its end. At the same time, he stressed that he would not say that everything was going well.
In his view, the ETA had many advantages, but there were political factors within the ecology. As a long-term participant, he would have preferred the discussion to go back to technology and construction itself, rather than to a simple stand.
Take the STARK route as an example of technology orientation.
Ben-Sasson also recalled that StarkWare had developed a Quantum ZK-STARK system between 2019 and 2020 in the hope of helping to expand the Ether Workshop and to enhance its capacity to prepare for the quantum age.
He stated that the choice of the STARK and zkVM routes at that time had not been welcomed and had even been considered inconsistent with the mainstream direction. He stated, however, that he was still pleased that those decisions had been taken.
Ben-Sasson concluded by expressing the hope that the new system that would be developed in the future would be more focused on capacity and technological achievements than on “consistency”. This statement does not directly evaluate the Fund ' s next arrangements, but reflects an ongoing discussion of governance and resource allocation within the horticultural area.