Alex Stokes, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, announced that he and barnabe.eth will serve as co-directors of the foundation.
In addition, according to him, Ethereum Foundation Research, the research department of the Ethereum Foundation, will consist of five teams, namely:
1. Application Research Group (ARG): Help turn theory into practice;
2. Consensus R&D: Many interests focus on improving the consensus layer;
3. Cryptography: Use interesting mathematics to reduce trust in every 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 mechanisms.