Stan Kladko 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇵🇹 ☮️ · 2026-10-18 16:31 UTC

TO SKALE community: I stepped down as CTO and board director of SKALE Labs, the company I co-founded in 2017. I remain a member of the Council of the SKALE Foundation, and I want to explain what I am asking the Foundation to do, because I think the community should weigh in. SKALE is a protocol. It runs because of a small team of engineers who have shipped it, debugged it, and kept it live for years. They understand what is technically possible and what is not. Today none of them sits on the Foundation board. I believe that is a mistake. A protocol foundation whose board has no builders on it will make decisions about roadmaps, grants, and network economics without the people who have to make those decisions work. That is how protocols drift. The good ones, from Ethereum to Cosmos, keep engineers at the table where the long-term direction is set. My proposal is simple: expand the Foundation board by three seats, filled by people with deep software and protocol engineering backgrounds. I have put this proposal to the Foundation formally. I will share what I am able to share as it proceeds. What I am asking of you today is only this: if you agree that the people who build SKALE should help govern it, say so publicly. Validators, delegators, dApp teams, and token holders are who the Foundation exists to serve, and your voice matters to the outcome. In the meanytime I am going to keep building SKALE.

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