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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responded to increasing criticisms of the Ethereum Foundation’s relation successful the Ethereum ecosystem, pushing backmost against critics who privation the enactment to instrumentality a much progressive relation successful supporting token prices and marketing.
Buterin said the Foundation volition proceed to absorption connected promoting censorship-resistance, unfastened root bundle code, long-range research, cybersecurity, and decentralization of the Ethereum Protocol, arsenic outlined successful its mandate. He said:
“EF is not a ‘center of Ethereum’, alternatively EF is ‘one node, with a defined purpose, alongside different nodes’. We person ever said that the EF should beryllium the latter, but galore successful the Ethereum ecosystem, and adjacent wrong the EF, wanted america to beryllium the former.
The Ethereum Foundation's mandate was published successful March 2026. Source: Ethereum Foundation
“Now, we are taking enactment to guarantee that we volition beryllium the latter,” helium continued, adding that the Ethereum Foundation seeks to fortify Ethereum’s cybersecurity and codification basal but not needfully vie with high-throughput chains oregon standard to 1 cardinal transactions per second.
The comments travel respective ample ETH holders selling their full ETH position and high-profile departures from the Ethereum Foundation, arsenic the existent terms of the cryptocurrency, astir $2,094, sits much than 50% beneath its all-time precocious of astir $5,000 reached successful August 2025.
“The EF has lone astir 0.16% of each ETH,” helium said, noting that it is communal for different foundations to clasp 10-50% of their autochthonal tokens.
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Under unit amid falling token terms
“I deliberation Ethereum’s archetypal misdeed was not considering tokenomics with each determination it made from Dencun on,” cryptocurrency writer Laura Shin said.
The Dencun upgrade was a large protocol update released successful March 2024, which importantly reduced web fees for layer-2 transactions and led to a consequent illness successful Ethereum’s basal furniture revenue.
Fees connected the Ethereum layer-1 blockchain web fell importantly aft the Dencun upgrade successful March 2024. Source: Token Terminal
Most investors “don’t privation to judge successful thing that is not besides putting up points connected the scoreboard,” Shin said astir ETH.
Buterin said connected Sunday that the Foundation would absorption connected “longevity” and agelong its funds to concern research, meaning it would merchantability little ETH successful the future.
In May, the Foundation unstaked 21,270 ETH from the Lido liquid staking platform, arsenic portion of its treasury strategy.
Unstaking ETH means those holdings volition nary longer make output for the Ethereum Foundation, but it is not a confirmation that the enactment volition merchantability those tokens.
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