Vitalik said: The Ethereum Foundation will become a 'smaller ship,' selling less ETH and focusing only on work related to Ethereum's resilience, openness, privacy, and security. The Ethereum Foundation previously held close to 200,000 ETH in total, but now only has 100,000 left after selling half over the past two to three years. If Vitalik had stepped in earlier, Ethereum wouldn’t have dropped this badly.