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Ethereum Foundation and SEAL launch Trillion Dollar Security effort

The Ethereum Foundation said it is teaming up with SEAL, a security-focused non-governmental organization, to establish the “Trillion Dollar Security” program, aimed at raising Ethereum’s security posture as more value moves across the network and its surrounding infrastructure. A key element is practical coordination: the Foundation is funding a security engineer to work full-time alongside SEAL’s intelligence team to speed up detection of new scam patterns and strengthen incident response.

“The Security Alliance has done important work to combat attacks and the ecosystem has benefited tremendously,” the Ethereum Foundation wrote on X after SEAL made the announcement.

The new push also reflects Ethereum’s broader evolution from major protocol milestones toward operational resilience. Ethereum completed “The Merge” in September 2022, transitioning the network to proof-of-stake and cutting energy consumption by about 99.95%.

Live dashboard tracks six security domains and dozens of controls

At the center of the program is a tracking tool that went live on February 5: a public dashboard designed to continuously monitor security across six domains—user experience, smart contracts, infrastructure and cloud, consensus protocol, monitoring and incident response, and the social layer and governance.

Unlike a one-time audit, the dashboard is intended to show progress and gaps in real time by tracking multiple safety metrics in each domain and indicating what work is active, in development, under research, or planned. Early snapshots underscore how much remains unfinished, particularly in user-facing protections such as transaction readability and permission controls.

Wallet drainers and phishing stay in focus as SEAL seeks a broader model

The partnership explicitly targets wallet-draining schemes, which often rely on social engineering: users are tricked into signing approvals that allow attackers to empty funds within seconds. Scam Sniffer has estimated that cumulative losses from such tactics over several years approached $1 billion, while reporting losses of $83.85 million in 2025 tied to signature-based phishing and wallet drainers.

SEAL says Ethereum is only the first step, and it wants to expand information-sharing and legal protections for ethical hackers across ecosystems. “If your foundation or crypto ecosystem is interested in similar sponsorship opportunities, we’re happy to discuss how this model protects users at scale,” SEAL said.

Conclusion

Ethereum’s security drive signals a shift from headline protocol upgrades toward measurable, continuously tracked safety improvements. The Foundation and SEAL are pairing a live dashboard with funded, hands-on threat hunting to reduce wallet-draining harm. For users, the message remains practical: verify links, scrutinize signature requests, and treat wallet permissions as high-risk actions.

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