Protocol at Ethereum Foundation
Protocol at Ethereum Foundation

Protocol at Ethereum Foundation

Protocol is a collection of teams pushing the frontier of research & development for the Ethereum protocol and its applications. Read more in our announcement.

What we do

Our strategic initiatives drive our work and deliver tangible improvements for all users of Ethereum.

Scale

Ethereum will provide enough blockspace on L1 to accommodate all asset issuance, governance, DeFi and L2 settlement activity, without compromising on hardness. → August 2025: Protocol Update 001

Improve UX

→ Seamless, secure and permissionless experience across the Ethereum ecosystem, for individuals and institutions. → August 2025: Protocol Update 003

Harden the L1

Ethereum will retain the properties — security, censorship resistance, network resilience — that make it valuable in the first place as it scales.