Aave team publicly disses Ethereum Foundation: founder and team "don't just focus on shipping"

Author: 0xJigglypuff, BlockTempo

Aave, the largest lending protocol in the Ethereum ecosystem, launched a "diss Ethereum Foundation" statement in the community yesterday (6). Marc Zeller, the founder of the Aave contribution team, published an article on X criticizing the Ethereum Foundation's inaction in recent years. Zeller believes that most of the casualties and team leaders of the Ethereum Foundation should be fired immediately. Although V God, the founder of Ethereum, was not mentioned, many people in the post believed that V God should also be held responsible.

Five major reform suggestions

Zeller mentioned that the Ethereum Foundation should do the following five things to save its inefficient ecological operations and disputes:

1. Fire 80% of non-developers and many current team leadership positions

2. Replace the ETH held by the foundation with a long-term pledge alternative (LST asset) that can withstand testing for a long time.

3. Delete 95% of sponsored projects, especially those that “only run nodes in a specific city (Vorkuta)”

4. Don’t dump Ethereum, use pledge substitutes (LST assets) in the lending agreement to borrow money and reduce operating costs.

5. Transfer Twitter accounts to people who really understand Ethereum technology and marketing to promote, such as @JimmyRagosa, @ethereumintern_, @antiprosynth, each of them can post 20 posts per day

Community feedback

As soon as the post came out, it aroused widespread discussion, which centered around why the Ethereum Foundation handles fund issues not as a lending agreement. Some communities mentioned that Ethereum has always not wanted to side with any Defi or LST Agreement, but it has cost 2 billion US dollars to maintain Danksharding and beamchain, but it is unwilling to spend half a cent on marketing. This should be an area that needs coordination, otherwise it should be disbanded. Community member @0xVoltaireon, who has participated in Gitcoin bonus reviews in the past, also fired at the same time. He believes that the Ethereum Foundation is just a money-laden person:

"When I reviewed the bonuses in the past, I thought the most tragic thing was that the Ethereum Foundation was actually a place full of money, and then it was basically abandoned by the World Economic Forum faction (WEF gang, alluding to Ethereum executives close to V God) to decentralize ization, embracing the ideal of a world currency) draining resources, the endless projects have nothing to do with decentralization, (decentralization) is just a fraudulent compliment they use in the name of social good.”

This post also caused many long-term supporters of Ethereum to quote and repost "How to save Ethereum", including Manta core contributor @victorJi15, former eznyme finance core contributor @deepcryptodive, Ethereum OG @intocryptoast, etc. Wait... there are too many to mention. How to quell this wave of crusade started by the Ethereum protocol developer community depends on how the Ethereum Foundation can regain the lost public support in the near future.