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Ethlabs is capable of attracting “top experts” and organizing alternative funding for the Ethereum network within the next 23 years

– Ethlabs has confirmed that it has sufficient resources to operate and hire staff for the next two to three years.

The company continues to use a model of open, ongoing fundraising rather than a single closed funding round.

The team is focused on the Chain (core protocol), Platform (infrastructure), and Growth (expanding adoption) areas as it refines its official roadmap.

As revealed during a public Q&A session held by the organization today, June 29, 2026, Ethlabs has just announced that its secured funding is sufficient to support operations and hire new specialists for a period of two to three years. However, the organization did not disclose the exact amounts.

Responding to community inquiries received since its launch on June 22, Ethlabs stated that fundraising will be conducted on an ongoing basis rather than as a single closed round.

A community fundraising round is currently underway, and the team plans to announce the names of additional sponsors before it concludes. Additionally, although the team has moved its primary donation address to ethlabs.eth, the previous address, eth-labs.eth, remains active so that both addresses continue to function.

Ethlabs has shared its research strategy, which is based on three key areas. The firstChainaims to improve the core protocol, for example, by scaling L1 execution, increasing BLOB capacity, and accelerating transactions.

The other two areas include Platform, which focuses on the infrastructure connecting the protocol and developers (for example, EVM compatibility and the roadmap), and Growth, designed to drive the adoption of new technologies, such as the Fast Confirmation Rule, on L2 networks and exchanges, which will significantly reduce account funding times.

However, the Ethlabs team has not yet prepared an official roadmap or specific milestones, as it is still in the process of finalizing these details. , “detected_source_language “: “EN

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What is the relationship with the Ethereum Foundation?

When discussing potential overlap with the Ethereum Foundation, representatives from Ethlabs noted that both organizations share similar goals. The team explained that Ethereum is not owned by any single organization, and that client teams, core developers, layer-2 networks, wallets, and the Foundation itself are all essential elements of the system.

According to the Q&A session, Ethlabs sees itself more as an additional supporting force.

This distinction is significant given the Foundations recent challenges. On June 22, the same day Ethlabs launched, the Ethereum Foundation cut 54 positions (about 20% of its staff) as part of a restructuring process that began last year.

This followed the high-profile departures of co-directors Tomasz Stanczak in February and Xiao-Wei Wang, who also resigned on June 22 (after eight years with the organization), leaving board member Bastian Aue as the sole executive managing day-to-day operations.

Many of the researchers who left the Foundation over the past year now work at Ethlabs. The five co-foundersAnsgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Kaspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf, and Julian Majointly contributed to the development of Ethereums finality mechanisms, scaling architecture, data availability layer, virtual machine, and protocol economics.

Ethlabs appears to have deliberately chosen a nonprofit structure. The team explained that its sponsorsprimarily ETH holders and Ethereum developersdo not gain influence over the organizations research direction or roadmap as a result of their contributions.

Thus, funding comes from Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR), SharpLink (NASDAQ: SBET), Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, as well as ecosystem participants including Anchorage, Octant, and SNZ. According to Cryptopolitan, more than 50 partners from the community have also pledged their support.

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