{"id":685857,"date":"2026-11-10T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/ex-employee-sues-ethereum-foundation-and-vitalik-buterin-over-firing\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:48:34","slug":"ex-employee-sues-ethereum-foundation-and-vitalik-buterin-over-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/ex-employee-sues-ethereum-foundation-and-vitalik-buterin-over-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-employee sues Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin over firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ex-employee<\/p>\n

Kayleen Fulton alleges she was fired less than two weeks after disclosing a cancer diagnosis and helping organize a staff letter challenging a requirement to endorse the foundation\u2019s new mandate.<\/p>\n

A former Ethereum Foundation employee has sued the organization, along with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and four others. <\/p>\n

Kayleen Fulton alleges she was fired after disclosing a cancer diagnosis and organizing a staff letter challenging a directive tied to the foundation\u2019s new mandate.<\/p>\n

Fulton, who led the foundation\u2019s protocol support team and is known in the Ethereum community as \u201cNixo,\u201d filed<\/a> the complaint on Nov. 4 in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. She alleges that Bastian Aue, a co-executive director at the time, fired her on April 6, 13 days after she disclosed her diagnosis. The complaint also alleges Buterin helped adopt and enforce the directive as a board member.<\/p>\n

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Kayleen Fulton alleges she was fired less than two weeks after disclosing a cancer diagnosis and helping organize a staff letter challenging a requirement to endorse the foundation\u2019s new mandate. A former Ethereum Foundation employee has sued the organization, along with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and four others. Kayleen Fulton alleges she was fired after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-685857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}