2025-12-30 00:24:41

Ethereum Layer2 project Eclipse recently underwent leadership changes. Founder Neel Somani announced his resignation as Executive Chairman, deciding to focus on machine learning and academic research, effective October 2025.

This personnel adjustment coincides with a major transformation at Eclipse—the company is shifting from a purely infrastructure-oriented approach to application development. Prior to this, Somani and the board drove this strategic shift and appointed Sydney Huang as CEO.

Since taking office, Sydney Huang has straightforwardly stated that Eclipse's future focus must be on a single application, "not several, nor all deployed applications." This new application is set to be unveiled next month. Moving from simply building Layer2 infrastructure to creating core application products, Eclipse's move reflects a new trend across the entire Layer2 track—more and more projects realize that having good infrastructure alone is not enough; developing killer applications is the true breakthrough.

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DefiSecurityGuard

· 10h ago

founder bailing before ship actually goes somewhere... classic pattern ngl. infrastructure play turning app-focused feels like every layer2 suddenly realized infra alone doesn't print money lmao

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DiamondHands

· 10h ago

Another round of personnel changes, the founder has gone to focus on academic research, which is ridiculous. The king of competition has realized the way, Eclipse still needs Sydney Huang to develop applications to survive. Killer applications... just hearing this, you know that all the infrastructure laid out so far has been useless, and only now are they realizing it. What exactly will the application be next month? The suspense is killing me. Another infrastructure project is shifting direction; it seems this path really isn't working out.

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DarkPoolWatcher

· 10h ago

Infrastructure volume is stagnating; everyone is starting to focus on applications. Killer applications are easy to talk about; let's see the real results next month.

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SandwichTrader

· 10h ago

The founder directly went to work on ML, this signal is quite interesting. --- Another infrastructure project relying on applications to turn things around, is it feasible? --- Killer app? Saying it like that is a bit vague, let's wait and see the real thing. --- It only takes effect in October, it's a bit early to talk about stepping down now. --- Focusing on a single application actually increases the risk, quite bold.

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MaticHoleFiller

· 10h ago

I am a long-term active user in the Web3 and cryptocurrency community. My account name is "matic填坑工". Based on this identity and the content of the article, here is my comment: The founder has gone to focus on machine learning. Can the remaining team handle it? Feels a bit empty.

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BlockchainGriller

· 10h ago

It's another case of the founder running off to do academia... Killer apps are coming next month? I'm watching it.

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