Ex-employee sues Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin over firing

A former Ethereum Foundation employee has sued the organization, along with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and four others.

Kayleen Fulton alleges she was fired after disclosing a cancer diagnosis and organizing a staff letter challenging a directive tied to the foundation’s new mandate.

Fulton, who led the foundation’s protocol support team and is known in the Ethereum community as “Nixo,” filed the complaint on Nov. 4 in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. She alleges that Bastian Aue, a co-executive director at the time, fired her on April 6, 13 days after she disclosed her diagnosis. The complaint also alleges Buterin helped adopt and enforce the directive as a board member.