{"id":95261,"date":"2026-05-25T07:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=95261"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:03:05","slug":"vitalik-says-ethereum-foundation-will-sell-less-eth-as-it-narrows-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=95261","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Says Ethereum Foundation Will Sell Less ETH As It Narrows Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vitalik Buterin said the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is moving toward a smaller, more focused and more opinionated role, with fewer ETH sales and a sharper mandate around Ethereum\u2019s long-term resilience, privacy, security and capture resistance.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy post<\/a> via X on Sunday, Buterin framed the shift as a deliberate move away from treating the EF as the \u201ccenter of Ethereum\u201d and toward a narrower function inside a broader ecosystem. He also stressed that the remarks reflected his own view, not an official unilateral directive.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not,\u201d Buterin wrote. He added that the board is expanding and that his own influence within the organization \u201cwill continue to decrease,\u201d which he said is \u201chonestly what I want.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Smaller Ethereum Foundation With A Narrower Mandate<\/h2>\n

Buterin said the EF\u2019s 2025-era changes had improved execution, efficiency and focus on concrete goals. But with those issues partly resolved, he argued that a different criticism became harder to ignore: that Ethereum\u2019s public values around decentralization, privacy and \u201csanctuary technology\u201d were not always reflected strongly enough in the foundation\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

The result, according to Buterin, is a transition toward a foundation that does less, but does it with more conviction. He described the EF as \u201cone node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes,\u201d rather than Ethereum\u2019s central coordinating body.<\/p>\n

That distinction matters financially as well as culturally. Buterin noted that the EF holds only around 0.16% of all ETH, which he said is \u201cless than many other individual ETH holders,\u201d while central foundations in other blockchain ecosystems often hold much larger shares. He also argued that the EF\u2019s original fiscal role was limited: to fund the development of the chain software through the milestones described in Ethereum\u2019s pre-launch materials, a scope he said was \u201cfully completed in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth,\u201d Buterin wrote. \u201cYes, this means we sell less ETH.\u201d<\/p>\n

The foundation, he said, will focus specifically on work \u201ccritical to the success of ethereum as a censorship\/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system<\/a>\u201d that would not happen otherwise. That means some respected people and projects may sit outside the EF, even when they are aligned with Ethereum\u2019s broader mission.<\/p>\n

Ethereum Should Not Chase Speed Alone<\/h2>\n

Buterin\u2019s technical argument centered on what he called the CROPS dimension: censorship resistance, openness, privacy and security. He contrasted that with the view that Ethereum should define its ambition mainly through ultra-low latency and extreme throughput<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo some, \u2018impressive\u2019 means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBeing as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buterin said Ethereum should still scale, but argued that its most defensible edge should be deeper. He pointed to AI-assisted formal verification as a potential path toward a \u201cprovably bug-free Ethereum,\u201d a goal he said would have seemed absurd to many cybersecurity researchers until recently. He also highlighted \u201cavailable chain consensus,\u201d arguing that Ethereum\u2019s direction with lean consensus preserves properties he sees as distinct from both Bitcoin-style and traditional BFT-style systems.<\/p>\n

A third priority is intermediary minimization. Buterin called it \u201chonestly embarrassing\u201d that smart contract wallets and privacy protocols often depend on intermediaries to get transactions included onchain. He cited FOCIL, EIP-8141, EIP-7701 and Kohaku<\/a> as part of the push toward stronger inclusion properties, public mempool access and user-layer infrastructure that does not leak private data across multiple third-party services.<\/p>\n

ETH The Asset Still Matters<\/p>\n

Buterin also linked the technical direction to ETH\u2019s economic role, calling ETH \u201cthe most high-value \u2018product\u2019 of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking.\u201d He said Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH and argued that the properties he described are beneficial for the asset.<\/p>\n

He added that nearly 90% of his net worth is in ETH, with most of the remainder in about $40 million of onchain fiat already allocated to open-source biotech, software or hardware initiatives. Still, he said some necessary work to support ETH as an asset sits outside the EF\u2019s scope and will require other organizations and major ETH holders to step in.<\/p>\n

The foundation\u2019s new long-term structure, Buterin said, is expected to stabilize over the next few months. His closing description was blunt: EF will be \u201ca smaller ship than in previous years,\u201d more opinionated, longer-lasting and more narrowly suited to ensuring Ethereum \u201cbrings something meaningful to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, ETH traded at $2,108.<\/p>\n

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