Eli Ben-Sasson: The Ethereum ecosystem should prioritize technical choices over political alignment

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson stated that he maintains a neutral stance regarding the recent controversy involving the Ethereum Foundation. Eli Ben-Sasson reflected on StarkWare’s journey since 2019/2020 in developing a post-quantum secure ZK STARK system, noting that the team’s technical decisions in directions such as STARKs, zkVM, Cairo, Native AA, and Bitcoin scaling were once seen as misaligned with Ethereum, but have now been adopted by multiple teams. Eli Ben-Sasson called for the Ethereum ecosystem to focus more on technology and capability itself, rather than alignment, and expressed willingness to work more closely with Ethereum if this can be achieved.