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Ethereum’s Biggest Threat Could Be a Looming Funding Crisis, Former EF Insider Warns
Financial sustainability: Maintaining Ethereum’s current development capacity, which spans more than 10 client teams, researchers, and coordinators, requires an estimated budget of $30 million annually.

Budget reduction: The Ethereum Foundation’s treasury plan, originally presented in June 2025, outlines a linear reduction in annual operating spending, dropping from 15% toward a 5% baseline level by 2030.

Expiration of incentives: The Client Incentive Program (CIP), a four-year initiative that distributed staking rewards to infrastructure teams, officially ended in April 2026 with no replacement announced.

The Ethereum ecosystem could face a structural funding crisis that would begin to manifest within the next three to nine months.

In this regard, former Ethereum Foundation (EF) member Trent Van Epps posted on his X account that the network is heading straight into a scenario of financial pressures due to deep changes in its governance. Van Epps, who recently concluded his five-year tenure with the organization, pointed out that this outlook is not the result of a temporary deficit, but rather the execution of internal policies aimed at institutional decentralization.

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— trent.eth (@trent_vanepps) June 18, 2026
The core of the issue lies in the EF’s historical strategy known as “Subtraction.” This policy seeks to progressively diminish the foundation’s direct influence to force the global community to take on a more active role in sustaining the protocol. However, data gathered by the former contributor suggests that alternative private or community financing mechanisms have not matured at the necessary pace to cover the delegated responsibilities.

Despite efforts to decentralize power, official documentation indicates that the EF maintains a centralized influence through the management of registered trademark

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Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson hinted at a new partnership in Japan as part of Cardano’s partner chain project, Midnight ($NIGHT).

Hoskinson stated that Midnight was “something completed,” adding that this was linked to $NIGHT liquidity in Japan.

Hoskinson commented on the development, saying, “We have something finalized for Midnight; it’s related to $NIGHT liquidity in Japan. This is really exciting. I never thought I’d be making a deal with that company.” However, Hoskinson did not share the company’s name or the details of the deal.

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What is a smart contract? The code that runs cryptoA smart contract is not smart, and it is barely a contract. It is a small program that lives on a blockchain and runs itself when its conditions are met, with no person to enforce it and no way to undo it. Understanding this one idea unlocks almost everything in crypto.

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What a smart contract actually is
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A smart contract is a program stored on a blockchain that automatically executes when certain conditions are met, with no person, company, or middleman needed to carry it out. That is the whole concept, and it is simpler than the intimidating name suggests, because a smart contract is not artificial intelligence and it is not really a legal contract in the traditional sense.

It is code, a set of instructions that says “if this happens, then do that,” running on a network that no single party controls, in a way that cannot be stopped, censored, or reversed once it is set in motion. Almost everything interesting in crypto beyond simply sending coins, decentralized finance, NFTs, tokens, decentralized applications, runs on smart contracts, which makes understanding them the key that unlocks how the modern crypto world actually works.

This guide explains smart contracts in plain English, from the ground up, with no coding or technical background assumed. It covers what a smart contract actually is and where the idea came from, the vending-machine analogy that makes it click, how smart contracts actually work under the hood, what they are used for across crypto, their real advantages, and, just

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