Inside Ethereum’s Next Chapter: Tomasz Stańczak on the EF, L2s, & Institutional Adoption

Episode notes

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast , host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Tomasz Stańczak , Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the development and long-term health of the Ethereum blockchain. Stańczak discusses his path from traditional finance to Ethereum and how those experiences prepared him to help steward Ethereum during a period of rapid growth. The conversation explores Ethereum Foundation restructuring, builder support, L2 interoperability, and why multiple rollup designs are expected to coexist as the ecosystem scales. They also examine institutional adoption, tokenization, ETH economics, privacy, and how the Foundation balances research, infrastructure, and application-level growth as it plans for the years ahead.