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What are the governance challenges of EF?What’s the hidden meaning behind JPMorgan Chase’s plan to accept BTC as loan collateral?Maybe x402 is the closest structured cone of trust to machine civilization yet?Written on the eve of x402 narrative explosion, let’s first popularize some basic knowledge.Is Bitcoin breaking the four-year cycle?Trump’s Crazy Plan: Use Cryptocurrencies to Pay Off the $38 Trillion National Debtx402 narrative will definitely explode and PING will evolve and develop like the inscription market.
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Where is the $100 million spent every year? Transparency of the Ethereum Foundation questioned

Author: Ignas, encryption KOL; Compilation: 0xxz@bitchain Vision

The Ethereum Foundation holds $845 million worth of ETH, accounting for 0.25% of the total ETH supply.

According to the latest report from the Ethereum Foundation, the Ethereum Foundation allocated $30 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, while in the third quarter of 2023, they allocated $8.9 million.

Here are some examples of spending:

  • Meetings around the world, “attract new Ethereum users through basic lectures and educate developers through technical conferences and workshops.” •

  • Online courses on core concepts and components of Zero Knowledge (ZK) systems.

  • “Email Wallet”, users can send cryptocurrencies via email without the need for recipient operations.

  • “Daimo” ERC-4337 Smart Contract Wallet: Stablecoins only, non-custodial, no seed phrases required.

The Ethereum Foundation seems to allocate grants for educational and niche (but cool) products that may not receive a lot of venture capital support.

This could explain why they are reluctant to fund DeFi protocols because they receive external funds from venture capital firms anyway.

However, there is a lack of a comprehensive and transparent total spending report.Who is auditing the Ethereum Foundation?

The latest report is for 2021, showing that the total expenditure on internal and external grants and bounties is $48 million.

The biggest expenses are:

• US$21 million for L1 research and development

• $9.7 million for community development, including grants and education

• US$5.1 million for internal operations (wage, legal fees, etc.)

Therefore, 10% of the total expenditure in 2021 is spent on paying developers’ salaries and supporting the maintenance of the Ethereum Foundation.

I must sayAlthough Polkadot faces controversy over its crazy spending, the report is at least transparent and can be found.

I kind of look forward to the Ethereum Foundation’s operations and reporting more transparently.

Just realized,The Ethereum Foundation’s latest spending is about $100 million a year, and it will run out of its ETH within 8 years.

They need to go up prices or start pledging to earn profits and provide funds for their operations for longer.

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