#ETH  Ethereum Foundation Makes Changes to Resolve Leadership Crisis.

In response to the leadership controversy, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced a new 15-member advisory board called the Silviculture Society. This diverse community of Ethereum developers is focused on the goal of defending the core values ​​of the project.
EF will create separate bodies and advisory groups to address other issues, but the direction of the project will be the first priority.
Can the Silviculture Community Protect Ethereum Values?
Ethereum is finally starting to resolve the leadership issues that have been rocking the community. Two days ago, Aya Miyaguchi announced that she will be the next President of the Foundation, after serving as Executive Director for seven years.
Today, EF announced its new advisory body: the Silviculture Society.
“EF Silviculture Society: A loose community of individuals from outside the Foundation who provide informal counsel to EF to ensure we maintain core values ​​of open source, privacy, security, and censorship resistance… Ethereum's success depends on talented and committed developers who build with these values ​​in mind,” he said.
The Silviculture Society consists of 15 members from a wide range of backgrounds. Some have fairly traditional public careers, like Matthew Green, a professor of cryptography at Johns Hopkins University, or Lefteris Karapetsas, founder of privacy protector Rotki.
However, most of the Silviculture Society's members appear entirely under pseudonyms, simply using names like "Aleph," "dystopiabreaker," or "mashbean." The entire group strongly advocates the values ​​of the old-school cryptocurrency community and cypherpunk culture.
However, as one member noted, the Silviculture Society is not a governing council. Rather, it provides EF with “distanced feedback from the perspective of ecosystem participants.”
The same member also shared a comment from another ecosystem developer, stating that some criticisms of EF may not have been made in good faith. Instead, “meaningless anger at the price drop” can be blamed.
Ethereum Price Is In Turbulence, Criticism Is Increasing
While EF struggles with its leadership crisis, Ethereum's price is in trouble. For example, a major debate was about how the Foundation manages business expenses.
This was resolved thanks to DeFi lending protocols, but dissatisfaction remained. Today, the price of Ethereum is at multi-month lows and the entire cryptocurrency market may be on the decline.
In the end, it doesn't really matter that some members of the community are attacking EF leadership over price disappointments.
Silviculture Society appears to be a well-intentioned effort to gather a team of experienced developers to approach the same goals from multiple perspectives. It creates a net positive impact for Ethereum's project and ecosystem.
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has been actively defending the Silviculture Society from social media criticism. He described it as “an experimental effort to create more channels for developers and other community voices to influence EF,” and the initiative focuses on defending core values.