Ethereum Foundation Stakes 70,000 ETH: Treasury Goes to Work for Sustainable Yield & Network Security

Starting with a first investment of 2,016 ETH, the Ethereum Foundation said on February 24, 2026, it had started staking around 70,000 ETH from its treasury. This action fits the Treasury Policy released last year, which stresses producing sustainable ETH-denominated yield without disposing of assets. All staking rewards will be routed back into the treasury to fund core activities, ecosystem grants, research and development, and to help to further improve Ethereum's general network security.

The staking plan emphasizes resilience and decentralization by means of open-source tools including Vouch, which advances client variety, and Attestant's Dirk, a distributed signer across countries. For more freedom, the setup has minority execution and consensus clients, combined infrastructure providers, and Type 2 withdrawal credentials. Deliberately eschewing any dependency on proposer-builder segregation to preserve conformance with Ethereum's ethic, residual deposits are planned to be released slowly over the next few weeks.

This project establishes a new standard of transparency for institutional solo staking by significant holders amid more context, including Vitalik Buterin's recent ETH sales totaling about 10,000 in February. The Foundation shows a long-term dedication to Ethereum's vitality while generating a self-sustaining source of money for its most vital projects by putting treasure ETH to efficient use by staking instead of selling.