# Ethereum Foundation Reorganizes Protocol R&D Around Scaling and UX

DevFeed: [Ethereum Foundation Reorganizes Protocol R&D Around Scaling and UX](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/announcing-protocol-17161.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/02/announcing-protocol>)

Author: Barnabé Monnot; Tim Beiko; Alex Stokes

Published: 2025-06-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [ux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux.md>)

## AI overview

The Ethereum Foundation is reorganizing its Protocol Research & Development teams around three goals: scaling L1, scaling blobs, and improving user experience. The group is being reintroduced under the name Protocol, with explicit coordination structures for those priorities.

## Source excerpt

Ethereum stands at the edge of major breakthroughs. zkEVMs have rapidly accelerated, enabling us to rearchitect L1 to simultaneously support scale, verifiability, security and censorship-resistance. L2s are hardening, meeting users where they are, and eager to double down on using Ethereum as their root of trust. In short, the world...