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Ethereum Foundation appoints pcaversaccio to board for initial one-year term

Ethereum Foundation appoints pcaversaccio to board for initial one-year term

The board addition formalizes Pascal Caversaccio’s move from advisory and security roles into Foundation oversight, reinforcing Ethereum’s focus on censorship resistance, open source, privacy and security.

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Fact Check
The official Ethereum Foundation blog post 'Ethereum Foundation Board Update' explicitly states pcaversaccio joined the board on a one-year voluntary term. This is corroborated by the EF's own X account (@ethereumfndn) and independently by CoinDesk. Every element of the claim—the appointment, the one-year initial term, the voluntary basis, and his security-community background—is directly supported by the primary official source.
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Summary

The Ethereum Foundation said on July 29, 2026 that it appointed Pascal Caversaccio, known as pcaversaccio or pc, to its board for an initial one-year voluntary term, expanding the body to four members. The longtime Ethereum contributor joins President Aya Miyaguchi, co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Swiss counsel Patrick Storchenegger. Caversaccio previously served on the Foundation’s Silviculture Society advisory group, co-founded and leads SEAL 911, and authored The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto in 2024 as well as the 2025 privacy paper Ethereum Privacy: The Road to Self-Sovereignty. The Foundation frames the board as responsible for setting vision, aligning management strategy with its censorship resistance, open source, privacy and security principles, acting as a security council and ensuring compliance as a Swiss foundation. Caversaccio’s background spans security research, incident response, deterministic contract deployment tools, white-hat recovery workflows and curated Ethereum security resources. SEAL 911, a free 24/7 crypto security response network, has handled more than 3,300 tickets, coordinated over 125 war rooms and supported recovery of more than $180 million in assets, with about 1,800 tickets in 2025 alone and backing from more than 75 organizations as well as personal contributions from figures including Buterin. The appointment deepens the Foundation’s board-level emphasis on privacy and security while keeping governance distinct from Ethereum’s decentralized protocol development process.

Terms & Concepts
  • CROPS: The Ethereum Foundation’s shorthand for censorship resistance, open source, privacy and security, which it uses as a governance and strategy framework.
  • white-hat recovery: Efforts by ethical security researchers to help retrieve or safeguard funds during or after a crypto exploit.
  • deterministic contract deployment: A method of deploying smart contracts so their resulting addresses or behavior can be predicted in advance.