In January 2025, Ethereum community members criticized the Ethereum Foundation's lack of engagement with ETH ecosystem and linking it as a factor in ETH's underperformance against Bitcoin and Solana.

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Jan 1, 2025 - 12:00am

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The complaints have generally been focused on the foundation’s lack of leadership, which many feel is to blame for Ethereum’s limited price action compared to bitcoin (BTC), SOL, and other major cryptocurrencies

Some in the Ethereum community have attributed the foundation’s perceived lack of engagement and leadership to Ether’s poor price performance relative to Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL) over the past few months