Eric Conner, a prominent Ethereum core developer, has left the ecosystem community after a nearly 11-year affiliation citing network co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s rejection of a leadership restructuring proposal.
Conner is a co-author of EIP-1559, the major network change that changed the way transaction fees worked on Ethereum. He is not an official Ethereum employee, but he has advised, invested, and been among those leading the growth of the ecosystem since its inception.
Conner will join AI-focused protocol Fresya.AI, he said in a follow-up post to X.
Buterin rejected calls to change the leadership structure at the Ethereum Foundation, which oversees the development of the second-largest blockchain by market capitalization.
Buterin said in X that he wants to create a “board” to manage the foundation, but until then he is the leader. Buterin’s comment came amid calls from ecosystem stakeholders for a change in the network’s leadership, with founding member Anthony Donofrio opining that the blockchain has lost its way.
The network also plans to roll out its Pectra upgrade, which promises speed efficiency and other improvements, in March.
