ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation has sold another 100 ETH (approximately $402,400) today. Since January 1, 2024, the Ethereum Foundation has sold a total of 4,466 ETH this year, amounting to about $12.62 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, 5 minutes ago, the Ethereum Foundation's address 0xd77, used for small high-frequency sales of ETH, sold 100 ETH at a price of $4,024, receiving 402,400 DAI.

ChainCatcher message, according to Ember monitoring, 5 minutes ago, the Ethereum Foundation's address 0xd77...1f4 used for small high-frequency sales of ETH sold 100 ETH at a price of $3,743, and exchanged it for 374,300 DAI.The last time the Ethereum Foundation sold ETH was 27 days ago.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum Foundation released the update report for the funding projects in the third quarter of 2024. The report shows that the total funding amount for the third quarter reached $12.8488 million, covering various fields including community education, consensus layer, cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, developer experience and tools, execution layer, Layer 2, and more. Among them, community education projects accounted for the largest share, including the EEA Industry Day conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, the ETH Pura Vida conference and hackathon held in San Jose, Costa Rica, and other events.In the technical field, the foundation continues to support the development of consensus layer clients such as Lighthouse, Nimbus, and Grandine, as well as the upgrade and maintenance of development tools like Web3.js and OpenZeppelin account abstraction contracts. Additionally, the report also indicates that the foundation provided funding for several research projects related to zero-knowledge proofs.

ChainCatcher message, encrypted KOL Mark summarized the project information updated by ai16z founder Shaw on his social platform. This includes:Plans to launch the ai16z dao autonomous trading feature next week, and promises not to tweet until everything is completed;A leading CEX wishes to list ai16z, but requires ai16z to establish a legal entity first;Currently in talks with the actual A16Z to discuss the launch of DUNA (Decentralized Non-Corporate Non-Profit Organization: Legal DAO formation in Wyoming);Engaging in discussions with companies like the Ethereum Foundation, Magic Eden, and Jupiter for potential collaborations;The Ai16z Open Committee will be jointly established with Nous Research (a top open-source AI company) and Loot Realms.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by Spot On Chain, the Ethereum Foundation sold 100 ETH about 25 minutes ago for 334,315.7 DAI. This is the first ETH sale since the release of the 2024 report on November 8. The report shows that the foundation's asset reserves were $970.2 million as of October 31, with $788.7 million in crypto assets (99.45% being ETH).The Ethereum Foundation plans to regularly sell ETH to fund key public projects and maintain reserves. As of 2024, the foundation has sold a total of 4,266 ETH, raising $11.83 million, with an average sale price of approximately $2,773.

ChainCatcher message, according to PeckShieldAlert monitoring, an address marked as the Ethereum Foundation has exchanged 100 ETH for 270,000 DAI in the past 10 hours, and then transferred 100,000 DAI cross-chain to the Arbitrum network, with the receiving address being 0xB659...BAe98.

ChainCatcher news, according to Ember monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation has sold ETH again after a week. Half an hour ago, the address used by the Ethereum Foundation for small high-frequency sales of ETH sold 100 ETH at a price of $2708, exchanging it for 270,800 DAI.

ChainCatcher message, Vitalik Buterin clarified on X regarding the Ethereum Foundation selling ETH: "The foundation is compensating researchers and developers responsible for the following:Ethereum will not spend 5 million ETH annually on proof of work;User fees are currently very low;Transactions can be completed in 30 seconds, instead of 1-30 minutes (EIP 1559)."

ChainCatcher message, regarding the question "Why doesn't the Ethereum Foundation stake its ETH holdings and only uses income to cover costs," Vitalik Buterin responded on X, stating: "One internal reason is that we do not want to be forced to make an 'official choice' in a controversial hard fork event.Around this issue, an interesting idea is being considered, which is to provide some grants in the form of 'you can stake our ETH, you can choose how to stake it, as long as it is ethical and maintains upward momentum.'Another way to address this issue is to spread legitimacy and resources to more stakeholders, so that multiple organizations can credibly represent Ethereum in the eyes of the public. In this regard, our situation is much better than it was two years ago."

According to ChainCatcher news and monitored by Scopescan, the Ethereum Foundation address shows that they now control 271,000 ETH (670 million USD). With the current staking APR of 3.1%, these assets can generate an annual income of 8,400 ETH (20.8 million USD), which is higher than the value they directly sell on-chain.

According to ChainCatcher news and monitored by Scopescan, the Ethereum Foundation sold 4,066 ETH (approximately 11.24 million USD) directly on-chain through CoWSwap, divided into 37 transactions. The first swap occurred on January 2, and the last swap took place on October 23.Additionally, a related address received 51,251 ETH from the Ethereum Foundation on November 17, 2015, and has deposited 2,580 ETH (6.24 million USD) to Bitstamp and Kraken in the past two months, with an average transfer price of 2,417 USD.The Ethereum Foundation may have sold a total of 6,646 ETH this year, worth over 17 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, the secure blockchain application standard OpenZeppelin has been funded by the Ethereum Foundation. The official statement indicates that this grant will enable them to add a modular ERC-4337 implementation, advancing account abstraction and helping developers build safer applications and more flexible smart wallets. In addition, the team will introduce new signature schemes, such as secp256r1, BLS, and RSA, thereby providing broader cryptographic support.

ChainCatcher news, according to Spot on Chain monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation sold 100 ETH (approximately $257,000) again 15 minutes ago.

ChainCatcher message, according to monitoring by Spot On Chain, Ethereum has been continuously selling small amounts of ETH weekly, with a total of approximately 1,450 ETH sold since September 2024, amounting to about 3.57 million dollars, at an average selling price of 2,459 dollars.