Thesis

Adoption is here. The coming years will define the shape of the onchain economy for decades to come.

We are starting Ethlabs, an independent non-profit R&D lab that will help Ethereum and ETH achieve their full potential.

We believe there are two possible shapes for the onchain economy:

1. One world of many disparate chains, bound together only by brittle links and trust assumptions.
2. And one where all onchain activity happens on top of a shared base layer, a layer that enables seamless and trustless interoperability across the global onchain world, for users, institutions and agents.

We believe that Ethereum is uniquely positioned to emerge as this universal base layer.

Towards this goal, we believe Ethereum’s unique strengths are:

1. Credible neutrality: Ten years of uptime; a large, distributed validator set; and a robust, multipolar governance ensure the stability of the network and provide users and institutions with the lowest counterparty risk.
2. ETH: The most valuable, programmable store of value. Ten years of track record and distribution to hundreds of millions of holders have made ETH the reference asset for the global onchain economy.
3. Builders: A million developers have built on Ethereum, and continue to build groundbreaking onchain experiences leveraging Ethereum’s platform across the L1 and the L2s.

Leveraging these unique strengths is how Ethereum wins.

We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core R&D. We will summon our experience and ecosystem partners to deploy all means necessary for Ethereum to succeed.

We help shape the core protocol, engage deeply with users, builders, L2s, and institutions, lead the standards and infrastructure the ecosystem needs.

We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong.

We are building a small, world-class team to make Ethereum more useful, more adopted, and more valuable.

Join us: join@ethlabs.org