On February 19th, according to Vitalik Buterin's response, the claim that he holds 3/5 of the seats on the board of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is not accurate. He clarified that since 2017, he only has one seat on the three-person board. The response was in response to Ameen Soleimani's discussion on social media that Vitalik's role in the Ethereum ecosystem is closer to "king" or "prophet", with a majority of voters believing that he prefers the latter.