Key Highlights
- Tomasz Stańczak has announced that he is stepping down from his role as Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation
- Bastian Aue will take his role as an interim Co-Executive Director
In the official post, the Ethereum Foundation has announced the departure of Tomasz Stańczak from his role as Co-Executive Director. He will be replaced by Bastian Aue as an interim Co-Executive Director.
I am stepping down from my co-ED role at the EF at the end of February 2026. Bastian Aue is taking over the co-ED role alongside Hsiao-Wei. The future is bright for builders, for Ethereum, for the EF, and for me.
I wrote a longer blog post (link below). I will answer all of your…
— Tomasz K. Stańczak (@tkstanczak) February 13, 2026
“Tomasz joined the management team during a critical period of growth and maturation for the Foundation. His strategic guidance helped expand our ability to reach out to broad groups of people and teams, and for the EF to understand businesses in the ecosystem more deeply,” stated in the official blog post.
“He also brought a sense of urgency and focus, helped organize Ethereum Foundation teams to work more efficiently, and expanded enterprise community development. Through his quick execution, he achieved a remarkable range of milestones within a short period,” further added in the post.
Who is Bastian Aue
Bastian Aue has been working in Ethereum Foundation for a very long time.
“Bastian brings deep organizational knowledge of the EF’s unique structure and values, and extensive experience within EF management. For those less familiar with Bastian, he has been a core part of our executive team, having been a part of decision-making alongside co-EDs Hsiao-Wei and Tomasz, with a prior focus on grants, enterprise, and operations. His organizational knowledge is invaluable for keeping the EF in good shape while continuing to move forward,” stated in the post.
Ethereum Foundation Roadmap for 2026
The Ethereum foundation’s 2026 plans come with technical plans, where a proposed merged LEAN Ethereum is expected to enhance protocol development. It will be supported by a clear development roadmap to guide long-term decision-making.
The plan for post-quantum security is also in discussion, where a dedicated team is working to ensure the network’s cryptographic resilience against future quantum computing threats.
Apart from this, ET has formed a decentralized AI team tasked with advancing standards for what foundation documents describe as the emerging “agentic economy.”
Amid the boom in AI, the new developments are making Ethereum a leading settlement and coordination infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. Apart from this, there are other developments also going around to boost the scalability of the Ethereum network.
Amid the massive crash in Bitcoin, Ethereum has also followed the correlation and witnessed a crash in its price, where it dropped below $2,000. However, the constant inflows in the ETF can provide it with stability in the long-term.
At the time of writing, Ethereum is trading at around $2,027 with a 3.66% surge in the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap. It holds $245.28 in market capitalization with $21.93 billion in daily trading volume.