The Ethereum Foundation (EF), which supports the development of the Ethereum blockchain, has begun investing a portion of its holdings to fund operations and strengthen network security, the team announced on Tuesday.
1/ The Ethereum Foundation has started staking a portion of the Treasury in accordance with the financial policy announced last year.
Today, EF achieved 2016. $ETH deposit. Approximately 70,000 $ETH The rewards that will be returned to the EF Treasury are staked.
— Ethereum Foundation (@ethereumfndn) February 24, 2026
The Foundation made 2,016 initial deposits $ETH Plan to bet about 70,000 today $ETH In total. Staking rewards flow back into the organization’s treasury to support protocol research, ecosystem development, and community grants.
The decision was taken after the EF introduced a financial policy in June 2025, establishing an asset-liability model based on an annual expenditure rate of 15% of total treasury and an operational runtime of 2.5 years. Historically directly dependent $ETH In addition to sales, the foundation is now increasingly turning to staking and DeFi strategies to support long-term sustainability.
For the staking infrastructure, the team uses Dirk and Vouch, open source tools developed by Attestant. Dirk functions as a decentralized signature system operated by individuals across multiple jurisdictions, eliminating single points of failure in verification operations.
Vouch allows you to use multiple client pairings with built-in strategies designed to reduce the risks associated with client concentration. This setup also incorporates a minority of clients and a combination of hosted and self-managed hardware across different geographies.
The Foundation holds over 172,00 people$ETH According to Arkham Intelligence, there are approximately $315 million worth of reserves and more than 10,000 Wrapped Ethereum (WETH) coins.
