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The Ethereum Foundation has appointed security researcher Pascal Caversaccio, known as pcaversaccio, to its board for an initial one-year term.
Caversaccio will serve on a voluntary basis. He joins as the Foundation reorganizes around censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy, and security.
Caversaccio Joins Aya, Vitalik and Storchenegger
Caversaccio becomes the fourth Ethereum Foundation board member. He joins President Aya Miyaguchi, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Swiss counsel Patrick Storchenegger.
The appointment adds a security researcher with direct exploit-response and privacy-policy experience to the Foundation’s top governance body.
SEAL 911 and Silviculture Roles Shape Board Appointment
Caversaccio is a co-founder and lead of SEAL 911, which provides emergency response support for crypto protocols, developers, and users dealing with exploits or other security incidents.
He has also served on the Foundation’s Silviculture Society. That advisory group focuses on preserving censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy, and security. Members provide informal guidance to the Foundation’s board and leadership.
Privacy Research Aligns With Ethereum Foundation Priorities
Caversaccio has contributed to Ethereum security research and written about privacy as a core requirement for the network. He is the author of the 2024 Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto and the 2025 Ethereum Privacy: The Road to Self-Sovereignty.
Both pieces argue that privacy, user control and censorship resistance should remain central to Ethereum’s development. That background aligns with the Foundation’s recent effort to make privacy and security more explicit institutional priorities.
Four-Member Board Acts as the Foundation’s Security Council
The Foundation describes its board as a security council for the organization. The board sets direction and checks that management decisions remain aligned with the Foundation’s values.
It also oversees the Foundation’s compliance obligations as a Swiss organization. The “security council” description applies to Ethereum Foundation governance, not a separate body controlling Ethereum protocol upgrades.
June Restructuring Cut 54 Ethereum Foundation Roles
Caversaccio’s appointment follows a June restructuring that reduced the Foundation’s workforce by 54 people, or roughly 20%. The reorganization moved Foundation operations around a smaller group of core functions.
The change came after the Foundation’s March mandate identified censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy, and security as core commitments. Ethereum’s privacy work also spans protocol research, user protection and institutional applications.
Ethereum Protocol Development Remains Distributed
The Foundation has supported security initiatives with SEAL and funded work targeting wallet drainers and social-engineering attacks. Caversaccio will now bring that security and privacy perspective directly into board-level decisions during his one-year term.
The appointment does not give him control over Ethereum protocol development. That work remains distributed across independent developers, client teams, researchers and other contributors throughout the Ethereum ecosystem.
