Woofun AI reports that Francesco D’Amato has departed the Ethereum Foundation to join the new Ethlabs team. After five years at the Foundation, D’Amato stated that this transition marks a "new beginning." His work at Ethlabs will focus on maximal extractable value, consensus mechanisms, data availability sampling, and execution layer pricing. The objective is to reduce transaction finality time from 12 minutes to enable faster finalization for Ethereum.