Vitalik Buterin reduced his ether holdings by approximately 17,000 ETH in February, according to on-chain data tracking his attributed wallets. Balances declined from about 241,000 ETH to 224,000 ETH, with transactions routed through CoW Protocol in multiple smaller batches to limit market impact.
The gradual sales coincided with a roughly 37% drop in ether’s price over the past month, with the asset trading near $1,900. Compressed staking yields around 2.8% and broader market weakness have contributed to softer sentiment across major holders of Ethereum’s native token.
Buterin previously earmarked a similar amount of ETH, valued at nearly $43 million, to fund privacy, security, and open hardware initiatives. The measured execution strategy suggests treasury reallocation rather than a single liquidity event, while ongoing price declines continue to weigh on institutional and corporate ETH balance sheets.
