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The EF published its new structure: five domain clusters (protocol, access, user, community and institutional layers) plus operations and management clusters, with 54 fewer people, about 20%. Vitalik said the EF is cutting its budget by about 40% this year as it becomes a long-term, endowment-based organization. Former EF protocol researchers founded Ethlabs, a non-profit R&D lab. EIP-8222 Lean Staking was merged; it had been presented at ACDE #238 as staking deposits and withdrawals through a privacy pool. ethbeat added STRK20 to its privacy dashboard and noted that a single admin account can see all shielded transfers. Aztec reached Stage 2 on L2BEAT.

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Image: Ethereum Magicians, ERC-8312: Bounded Agent Actions (blockbird)

EF restructuring and budget

EF blog: The EF's new structure

. The EF concluded a months-long reorganization as part of implementing the Mandate and the Treasury Management Policy. It now has five domain clusters (protocol, access, user, community and institutional layers) plus an operations cluster and a management cluster, with 54 fewer colleagues, about 20% of the EF. The protocol cluster hardens and scales the protocol, treating censorship and capture resistance, open source, privacy and security as non-negotiable protocol guarantees, including defending against toxic MEV and privileged orderflow and turning long-horizon research such as post-quantum, zkEVM and L1 privacy into protocol changes. The access layer makes CROPS properties real for individuals, and the agents acting for them, when reading the chain, transacting, proving, delegating and exiting.

https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/06/23/ef-structure

Vitalik: the EF is cutting its budget by roughly 40% this year, which entails some difficult decisions

21:44, as it transitions to a long-term, endowment-based organization. Per Ethereal news #29's summary, the cuts touch clients (the multi-client model shifting from redundancy to specialization, exploring AI-assisted formal verification), PSE (Privacy Stewards of Ethereum winding down, focusing on implementing rather than exploring ZKP privacy and scaling), Devcon (smaller and more spartan) and more.

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2069431500035023121

Ethlabs founded

ethlabs_org: announcing Ethlabs, a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH

00:03. According to the Thesis page on the Ethlabs website, its mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy; the team works with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers to turn real needs into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure and shipped products, and describes itself as one node in a "multi-node future".

https://x.com/ethlabs_org/status/2069104073245159573

Thesis page on the Ethlabs website

Ethlabs_org: announcing Ethlabs, a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH, 00:03. According to the Thesis page on the Ethlabs website, its mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy; the team works with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers to turn real needs into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure and shipped products, and describes itself as one node in a "multi-node future".

https://ethlabs.org/thesis.html

Privacy and staking

Other updates

ERC PR

Magicians: ERC-8312 Bounded Agent Actions, 21:29 (blockbird), with very active discussion. It only meters: it tracks how much of a bounded mandate an agent has already spent so downstream contracts can look up what remains; the ERC PR was submitted.

https://github.com/ethereum/ERCs/pull/1833

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