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According to the report, $13.5 million will be allocated to security grants distributed through DAO-style mechanisms

By Margaux Nijkerk, AI Boost|Edited by Sheldon Reback
Updated Jan 29, 2026, 4:27 p.m. Published Jan 29, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
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What to know:

  • Some key Ethereum members, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, are reviving one of the network’s oldest and most symbolic chapters: The DAO.
  • According to the announcement, $13.5 million will be allocated to security grants distributed through DAO-style mechanisms.

Some key Ethereum members, including co-founder Vitalik Buterin, are reviving one of the network’s oldest and most symbolic chapters: The DAO.

More than 70,500 ether ETH$2,808.55 that have sat untouched since the 2016 DAO hack — long considered Ethereum’s defining existential crisis — will be redeployed into a roughly $220 million Ethereum security initiative, Unchained reported.

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According to the report, $13.5 million will be allocated to security grants distributed through DAO-style mechanisms including quadratic funding, retroactive public goods funding, ranked-choice RFPs and other governance processes under a new entity, The DAO Fund.

The remaining 69,420 ETH will be staked to generate an endowment for Ethereum security efforts. The investment is expected to yield roughly $8 million annually at current rates.

The move marks a symbolic and practical return to DAO-based coordination nearly a decade after the original experiment fractured the community and led to Ethereum’s historic hard fork.

“TheDAO is back,” the project wrote on X. “A decade later, we’re opening a new chapter”

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