Fired Employee Sues the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin

Kayleen Fulton , who headed the Ethereum Foundation (EF) Protocol Support team and facilitated Ethereum’s All Core Developers calls, says in a federal lawsuit that the EF fired her 13 days after she emailed leadership about her ovarian cancer diagnosis. The suit centers on the EF’s Mandate, a statement of direction sent to all staff on Feb. 25. That draft carried a “Source Seppuku License” whose author, editors and distributors pledged to “take his or her own life with a sword” if they broke or altered it, the complaint says.