Ethereum Foundation starts staking ETH as client diversity concerns persist

Ethereum Foundation’s move to stake its own ETH, using minority clients and distributed infrastructure, throws fresh focus on how Ethereum’s staking landscape is evolving.

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking part of its treasury, turning one of Ethereum’s most influential entities into a direct economic participant in network consensus.

According to a Feb. 24 post on X, the Foundation deposited 2,016 Ether (ETH) and plans to stake roughly 70,000 ETH in total, with all rewards flowing back into its treasury to fund protocol research and development, ecosystem development and grants.

​In its announcement, the Foundation stressed that the new validators were being operated using open-source infrastructure, Dirk and Vouch, originally developed by Attestant and now part of Bitwise’s institutional staking stack. 

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