Treasury Staking Initiative

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking about 70,000 ETH from its treasury, with rewards returned to the EF treasury, in line with its Treasury Policy announced last year. It chose the open source tools Dirk and Vouch after assessing several staking software options. Dirk acts as a distributed signer across multiple geographic regions to remove a single point of failure, while Vouch supports multiple beacon and execution client pairings to guard against client diversity risks. The validators use Type 2 (0x02) withdrawal credentials, which the Foundation cites for transferability and a reduced number of signing keys, roughly 35. The first validator has been deposited, with the remaining deposits to follow in the coming weeks.