January 30 News, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin revealed that the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is entering a “mild contraction” phase to continue advancing the scalability roadmap while ensuring long-term financial sustainability. He also confirmed that he has personally withdrawn 16,384 ETH, worth approximately $45 million at current market prices, to support an open-source, secure, verifiable “full-stack” hardware and software system project.
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