Ethereum Foundation researchers Dankrad Feist and Justin Drake have reportedly resigned from their advisory roles at Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer. Both claimed to have made the move after considering a potential conflict of interest within the Ethereum community. Notably, some community members voiced these concerns months ago when the researchers first made their announcement about joining as advisors. The community members feared that EigenLayer’s payouts to Ethereum foundation researchers was an attempt by the project to influence the broader Ethereum network’s development roadmap.