Reminder: Ethereum doesn’t have a team. It has a community.

I've seen a lot of people saying "Ethereum has a great team", and while I appreciate the positivity, I think this really undersells how powerful the Ethereum ecosystem. When I hear that, it sounds to me like "I really like this internet thing, they have a great team".

Yes, the Ethereum Foundation exists, but it mostly employs researchers like Vitalik. The largest contributions to Ethereum all come from independent teams and individuals:

• There are 5 different Eth2 clients, and none of them were built by the EF, they were all built by independent companies.
• There's like 20 different scaling projects, all of them are independent companies
• All Ethereum code is open-source, and there's thousands of individuals who have contributed to Ethereum core infrastructure
• The famous EIP-1559 wasn't written by a researcher or developer: it was written by Eric Connor, the host of the EthHub podcast!
• The real value of Ethereum comes from the applications built on top of Ethereum, which come from thousands of independent companies

The best part: you're all part of the Ethereum community too!