On January 10th, an interesting piece of news came from the Ethereum ecosystem—core developer Tim Beiko announced a shift in his career focus.

This developer, who has long been dedicated to coding and refining underlying technology, plans to devote more energy to innovation at the application layer. However, he is not leaving the Ethereum Foundation but will continue to participate as an advisor. In the short term, his main tasks are to help the AllCoreDevs team smoothly complete the transition and assist the foundation in optimizing organizational structure to create better conditions for application developers across the ecosystem.

This transition is quite interesting. Previously, his role was like that of a professional infrastructure builder; now, he is more focused on community planning and application expansion. He needs to ensure the smooth handover of technical work while also thinking about how to unleash more possibilities within Ethereum’s application ecosystem.

Is this hinting that Ethereum will have bigger moves at the application layer next? Perhaps we should pay attention to what new ecosystem plans might be announced in the future.