Morning Edition · Friday, June 19, 2026Published at 6:30 AM EDT · New York

A Developer Warns Ethereum Could Face a Slow Funding Crisis

Trent VanEpps, an advocate for public-goods funding, cautions that spending cuts at the Ethereum Foundation could deprive parts of the ecosystem of support over the coming months, raising a debate about who pays for public infrastructure.

A warning circulating in the Ethereum community describes a problem that the protocol's market value tends to obscure. According to remarks from Trent VanEpps, an advocate for public-goods funding in the ecosystem, reported through a French…