According to ChainCatcher, Justin Drake, an important member of the Ethereum Foundation, recently visited the "Developer Story" column launched by OKX Web3 and ChainCatcher, and discussed in depth the technical improvements, consensus mechanisms, scalability, security, DeFi, user experience, ecosystem, environmental impact, and future development and strategy of Ethereum 2.0. He said that in promoting ecological development, EF (Ethereum Foundation) is often regarded as "ruling by doing nothing", and this style has also faced some controversy. He believes that it is a good thing that EF's role in the entire ecosystem is decreasing. Justin Drake said that now, EF's responsibilities are mainly limited to:
1) Hold a Devcon or Devconnect every year. They are now just one of many conferences, and there are many peripheral events that are more important than the main venue.
2) An execution client: Geth is one of the 5 execution clients, but EF does not maintain any consensus client.
3) Grants: Providing tens of millions of dollars in unconditional grants to the wider community each year has led to a reduction in EF's ETH financial reserves. In the long run, it is a good thing for the Ethereum Foundation to hold less ETH. EF currently controls 0.23% of the ETH supply, and it is healthy to keep this number close to 0% in the next few decades because it promotes the decentralization of the Ethereum ecosystem.
4) Telephone coordination: Many conference calls are hosted by EF members, such as All Core Devs (ACD) hosted by Tim Beiko, All Devs Consensus (ACDC) hosted by Alex Stokes, RollCall hosted by Ansgar Dietrichs and Carl Beekhuizen, Sequencing and pre-meetings hosted by myself, MEV-boost conference calls hosted by Alex Stokes,
5) Research: This may be one of the areas that remains centralized, but it is possible that parts of the EF research team will become independent.
6) Roadmap Development: Vitalik updated the roadmap diagram, and then dozens of tasks were developed in parallel by different teams.
