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The infrastructure was launched on February 24, 2026, with an initial deposit of 2016 Ethereum. The full scope of the initiative was revealed on March 9, 2026, with the official announcement of supporting tools and strategic details. The current deposited stake is valued at approximately $140 million.

New Funding Model
The mechanism is simple. It is expected that staking this amount of Ethereum at current prices—estimated between 2.8% and 3.1%—will generate between 1900 and 2200 Ethereum annually. This yield is returned to the treasury to cover protocol research, ecosystem grants, and public benefit funding, eliminating the need to time Ethereum sales according to market conditions.

The organization uses two open-source tools, Dirk and Vouch, developed by Attestant—now operating under Bitwise Onchain Solutions—to manage verification settings. The distributed signature architecture is designed to eliminate single points of failure, a technical option that analysts have pointed to as a potential standard for enterprise-scale storage operations.