Ethereum Foundation sells $43M ETH to fund research and community projects

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) will sell 10,000 ETH, worth about $43 million, to fund research, grants, and ￰0￱ a post on X, the foundation said it will split the sale into smaller orders over the next few ￰1￱ sale will happen through centralized ￰2￱ noted the gradual approach will limit market disruption, and the funds will support development and community growth in the Ethereum ￰3￱ Ethereum Foundation to fund research In an effort to maintain a reliable source of funding for the Ethereum ecosystem amidst an unstable market, the Ethereum Foundation announced plans to sell 10,000 ETH (around $43 million). It will be changed into fiat rather than treating each sale as an isolated event, to create steady funding for grants, operational expenses, and strategic ￰4￱ gave over $32 million in grants in the first quarter of 2025 for developers, researchers, and educators, all working on improving the technology and creating ￰5￱ foundation also paused open grant applications to improve the quality of its projects and focus on long-term progress instead of worrying about the coin’s short-term ￰6￱ 10,000 ETH is just part of EF’s bigger treasury management strategy, as seen in several transactions in the past and earlier this ￰7￱ foundation sold $25 million worth of ETH to SharpLink Gaming in July and made two other transactions totaling $12.7 million under the guidelines of its treasury policy introduced in ￰8￱ policy aims to set rules on how much ETH the foundation can convert into fiat over specific periods to fund its ￰9￱ policy guides ETH sales and shapes market activity The policy set a maximum of 15% annually for operational expenses and demands that the foundation create a multi-year reserve buffer to ensure there is always enough money for operations and ￰10￱ guidelines also require regular reviews of the foundation’s assets in fiat terms to know how much Ether can be sold in the next three ￰11￱ rose more than 23% in the past month and currently trades around $4,326.

This shows that investors have confidence in the coin’s ￰12￱ the foundation announced plans to sell 10,000 ETH, Yunfeng Financial Group said it bought a similar amount from the open market that same ￰13￱ Machine also announced that it bought 150,000 ETH to build a corporate treasury ahead of its anticipated Nasdaq ￰14￱ company now holds over 345,000 ETH, which is valued at around $1.5 ￰15￱ transactions show how traditional financial institutions and big companies outside the crypto-native world treat ETH as a strategic reserve ￰16￱ co-founder Joseph Lubin also said that Ether can potentially beat Bitcoin as the leading global “monetary base if Wall Street fully adopts the ￰17￱ comments came after ETH hit its highest value of over $4,870 in ￰18￱ Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell also had a hand in this surge after he commented about possible changes to monetary policy, which gave investors more confidence in risk ￰19￱ treasury policy, growing interest from institutional investors, and comments by key figures like Lubin show that Ethereum is maturing into a more useful asset in the crypto ￰20￱ importantly, such influence could shape ETH’s market performance at different points, as seen in the December 2020 sale of 100,000 ETH, which drove Ether’s price to record highs in the following ￰21￱ seen where it ￰22￱ in Cryptopolitan Research and reach crypto’s sharpest investors and builders.