Ethereum Foundation researcher Alex Stokes announced that he and barnabe.eth will jointly serve as co-leaders of the Ethereum Foundation. He also introduced that the Ethereum Foundation Research, which is launched by the Ethereum Gold Foundation, will be composed of five teams, namely:

1. Application Research Group (ARG): Help to turn theory into practice;

2. Consensus development: Many interests focus on improving the consensus layer;

3. Cryptography: Use interesting mathematics to reduce trust in each part of the stack;

4. Protocol security: Use various tools and bug bounty programs to ensure the security of the software and specifications behind the network;

5. RIG: Economic/game theory perspectives strengthen Ethereum's special mechanism.