Ethereum Foundation Appoints SEAL 911 Co-Founder to Board Amid Privacy Push

Woofun AI reports that the Ethereum Foundation (EF) has expanded its governance structure by appointing Pascal Caversaccio, known as "pcaversaccio", to its board. The new member joins President Aya Miyaguchi, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, and Swiss counsel Patrick Storchenegger, forming a four-member body. Caversaccio is a co-founder and lead of the crypto security response group SEAL 911.

The appointment was announced on Wednesday, with Caversaccio joining for an initial one-year term voluntarily. He is a longtime Ethereum contributor and a member of the Foundation’s Silviculture Society, an informal advisory group focused on censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy, and security.

Notably, he authored The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto in 2024 and Ethereum Privacy: The Road to Self-Sovereignty in 2025.

Woofun AI data shows that the board functions as a "security council" responsible for protecting the Foundation’s mission and ensuring compliance as a Swiss foundation.

Structurally, it sets the organization’s vision and oversees whether management’s strategies remain aligned with core values. In June, the Foundation described privacy and security as "non-negotiable protocol guarantees", stating its protocol team would translate research, including layer-1 privacy and post-quantum security, into changes that preserve Ethereum’s self-sovereignty.

This appointment signals a strategic alignment with the Foundation’s growing emphasis on privacy and security. By integrating a key figure from the security response community, the EF reinforces its commitment to these non-negotiable guarantees. This marks a significant step in embedding privacy-centric governance into the protocol’s long-term trajectory.