Former Ethereum Foundation Employee Sues Foundation and Vitalik Buterin

A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado reveals that Kayleen Fulton, former Protocol Support Lead at the Ethereum Foundation, sued several defendants—including affiliated entities of the Foundation, Co-Executive Director Bastian Aue, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin—on November 4. According to the complaint, Fulton notified Foundation leadership in writing of her cancer diagnosis on March 24; the next day, she co-initiated and organized a petition signed by 53 employees protesting a mandatory internal document containing a “suicide clause”; and on April 6, she and another organizer of the petition were terminated. The plaintiff alleges multiple claims, including disability discrimination, retaliatory termination, and unlawful interference with her legally protected right to family and medical leave. All factual allegations above are asserted solely by the plaintiff.