Cobie criticized the Ethereum Foundation core developers or researchers for earning money as consultants for projects built on Ethereum, such as EigenLayer. In response, Justin Ðrake said: The consulting service comes with significant EIGEN token incentives, including millions of dollars worth of token vesting over 3 years, with a commitment to re-inject all consulting income into valuable projects within the Ethereum ecosystem; it can be expected that the default public position will continue to be biased towards criticizing EigenLayer; there are 3 Ethereum Foundation personnel who have a formal relationship with the EigenLayer entity: one is an early investor and two are recent consultants.