Former employee of the Ethereum Foundation sues the Foundation and Vitalik Buterin

Nov 9, 2026 23:33:42

According to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Kayleen Fulton, the former head of protocol support at the Ethereum Foundation, sued the foundation's affiliated entities, co-executive director Bastian Aue, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, among others, on November 4.

The lawsuit claims that Fulton disclosed her cancer diagnosis in writing to the foundation's leadership on March 24, and the next day organized a petition signed by 53 employees opposing a request to endorse an internal document that included a suicide pledge; on April 6, she and another organizer were terminated. She has made claims of disability discrimination, retaliation, and interference with family medical leave rights. The above content is the plaintiff's assertion.

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