Vitalik Buterin Reveals 90% of His Net Worth Sits in ETH Amid Foundation Overhaul Plans
Ethereum Vitalik Buterin Reveals 90% of His Net Worth Sits in ETH Amid Foundation Overhaul Plans Writing on X, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explained that the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is choosing longevity over breadth. The shift comes after a period he described as productive, with major efficiency gains in 2025, but one question kept surfacing in his feed: Why did the foundations actions not reflect the decentralization and privacy values he spoke about publicly? Buterin acknowledged that tension clearly. Some people saw a foundation finally getting serious about execution and business development. He saw something different and stated that the critics who pushed hardest on idealism were the ones whose words carried the most weight with him. To explain the choice the EF is making, Buterin reached for an analogy. He described Google as a company that started with strong, idealistic roots but slowly moved away from them as mainstream corporate pressure set in. He remarked that if he could have pressed a button in 2008 to make Google two standard deviations more principled, he would have pressed it immediately. His reasoning: one organization choosing to hold a different standard matters more when the rest of the industry is drifting in the other direction. That









