The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury holdings, marking a significant change in how the organization manages its ETH reserves.
Ethereum Foundation puts treasury to work with 70,000 ETH staking plan
In a post on The move follows a treasury policy announced last year and aims to both support network security and help fund the foundation’s core operations.
Staking setup is implemented using open source tools developed by Attestant, including Dirk and Vouch.
Dirk functions as a distributed signer, allowing validators to be operated across multiple jurisdictions and reducing the risk of a single point of failure.
Vouch enables the use of multiple pairs of consensus and execution clients, helping to mitigate the risks of client diversity, a key concern for Ethereum’s decentralization model. The foundation said its validator setup incorporates minority clients and a mix of hosted infrastructure and self-managed hardware spread across multiple regions.
The announcement comes at a landmark time for Ethereum. Recently, co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold around $7 million worth of ETH amid a broader price decline, sparking discussions about cash management and market signals.
At the same time, the foundation has expanded its support for ecosystems through new grant initiatives, including updates to its Ecosystem Support Program aimed at funding protocol research, community development and public goods projects.
By staking a portion of its holdings, the foundation effectively puts dormant ETH to work, generating yields while boosting validator participation. This move more closely aligns Treasury with Ethereum’s proof-of-stake design and provides an additional funding stream for long-term development efforts without relying solely on asset sales.