The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is being sued after firing an employee shortly after she objected to an alleged mandated suicide pledge. The dismissal also came within weeks of her revealing her cancer diagnosis.
EF is a non-profit that supports the cryptocurrency platform Ethereum. Filed to the District Court of Colorado on Nov. 4, the complaint claims EF fired Protocol Support team lead Kayleen Fulton (also known as Nixo) after she coordinated a collective letter opposing a suicide pledge all employees had been directed to affirm. The “Source Seppuku License” had been included in a document entitled “The Ethereum Foundation Mandate,” which was distributed to all employees on Feb. 25:
“By inclusion of this license,
