The work, when a seat opens.
Four roles are open, each listed below with its brief. If none of them fits what you would do, write to us and say so plainly.
Open roles.
Head of US
- Full-time
- United States
Lead our institutional presence across the United States, building deep relationships within traditional finance and positioning Ethereum as foundational infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.
Head of MENA
- Full-time
- Abu Dhabi
Lead our institutional presence across the Middle East and North Africa, building senior relationships across sovereign capital, banks, and financial infrastructure to position Ethereum as core infrastructure for the region.
APAC Lead
- Full-time
- Hong Kong or Tokyo
Help grow our institutional presence across Asia-Pacific, building relationships across banks, asset managers, exchanges, and custodians to expand Ethereum's institutional footprint across the region.
Forward Deployed Engineer
- Full-time
- Flexible
Sit in the room with senior stakeholders at banks, asset managers, and custodians to frame problems, scope integrations, and build proofs-of-concept that turn Ethereum into deployable institutional solutions.
We are always interested in hearing from exceptional people, listed role or not.
Who you would work with.
Already public, each named with their seat and where they came from. Every one of them came from the Ethereum Foundation's enterprise function or from institutional finance.
David Walsh
Co-founder
Built the Ethereum Foundation's enterprise function across five years and engaged hundreds of institutions. Previously EY Financial Services. Also holds one of three board seats.
Marius Smith
Co-founder
Five years scaling one of Europe's first regulated crypto custody and infrastructure firms. Previously Eigen Labs, N26 and Google.
Matthew Dawson
Co-founder
The Ethereum Foundation's first enterprise lead, with seven years across digital assets and traditional finance. Previously Accenture.
What the work answers to.
The research firewall binds everyone here, whoever pays. These are the structures, verbatim from the governance record.
No funder review.
Funders and supporters see our research when the public does. There is no pre-publication review, no right of reply before release, and no veto.
Sign-off sits with research.
Publication is approved by the research lead, not by the board and not by a funder.
The right to say no.
Our methodology explicitly permits, and our register regularly records, the conclusion that Ethereum does not currently satisfy a requirement. If you never see the word unresolved on this site, the firewall has failed.
Relevance over relationship.
Introductions and provider mentions are selected by requirement fit, with the basis logged and auditable internally.
Labelled claims.
Every published claim carries its epistemic label, its source, and the date it was last verified. Advocacy is labelled as advocacy, so that research can be read as research.
Concentration glide path.
We intend that no single funder exceeds a set share of our funding within twenty-four months, and we publish progress against that annually.