Dear Ethereum Community (and wonderful Etherheads!),
Today, January 31, 2018, is my last day as Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation.
I am pleased to have been able to guide the Foundation as ED with my fellow directors, team leaders, and an outstanding group of team members, each of whom has contributed to our current position of strength. Taking the Foundation from what was an early start-up stage to one of stability, with the infrastructure and resources to support the changes, improvements, and challenges to come, was no small feat in blockchain and cryptoland!
We have been through a lot together to successfully go through various stages of growth in the last 2.5+ years. As a result, the Ethereum Foundation has become stronger, more robust, and capable as a leading organization, entity, and contributor to both the Ethereum community and the greater world of emerging technology.
Now that the Foundation has successfully launched Frontier, launched Homestead and Metropolis-1 (aka Byzantium), and has the resources to continue to support its mission and related projects, teams, and goals, I am pleased that the critical work has been done. which was entrusted to me. so that the next part of the journey can take place as planned.
I would like to take this opportunity to urge the community to give the incoming CEO and all new team members a warm and open welcome, as well as the time necessary for organizational changes of this nature.
To my beloved team members, there are no words to express the effect and experience of working with you over the past few years. You will always be an important part of my life and I will support you at the Foundation or wherever life takes you as I begin my own new phase.
As I will be dealing with a number of long-standing personal issues, I would like to ask our community and media to focus on the exciting forward-looking developments at the Foundation, in the Ethereum community, and in the growing global world. blockchain ecosystem.
I wholeheartedly wish the best for the Foundation, the new members of the team, and those of us who continue to be here as we brave the new world to evolve and shine both together and separately.
Ming Chan CEO (Aug 1, 2015 – Jan 31, 2018) Ethereum Foundation
