As scams continue to siphon off user funds, security efforts on Ethereum are gaining new momentum. The Ethereum Foundation has just announced a strategic partnership intended to reduce losses and improve real-time detection of emerging threats within the ecosystem.
In brief
- The Ethereum Foundation funds SEAL to monitor wallet theft, phishing, and social engineering.
- A full-time security engineer joins SEAL to counter new threats.
- A public dashboard tracks risks related to UX, smart contracts, infrastructure and governance.
- Losses due to scams fell to $84 million in 2025, a historic low.
Ethereum strengthens its security in the face of wallet dumps
The Ethereum Foundation is now supporting SEAL (Security Alliance), a non-profit organization dedicated to crypto cybersecurity. This funding aims to track and disrupt phishing campaigns, social engineering attacks and notorious wallet dumps, an ever-increasing threat to users. On Monday, SEAL announced the launch of the “Trillion Dollar Security” initiative, the result of discussions initiated at the end of 2025 with the foundation around the financing of dedicated security missions.
As part of this partnership, a full-time security engineer will be integrated into the SEAL intelligence team. Its mission: monitor emerging tactics, map attacker infrastructures and respond quickly to new threats as they appear.
SEAL acts as a protective force for users in the crypto market. The organization shares threat intelligence, coordinates incident response, and legally supports white-hat hackers engaged in defensive actions. The Ethereum Foundation publicly welcomed this initiative onhighlighting the concrete results already obtained by SEAL for the ecosystem.
Wallet dumps often exploit fraudulent sites, cloned interfaces, or even phishing emails imitating legitimate crypto services. The trap: getting victims to approve a seemingly innocuous transaction, but which actually gives complete access to their wallet. Faced with the rapid evolution of these techniques, early detection and coordinated surveillance have become essential.
Scam losses drop to historic low as SEAL steps up oversight
The Trillion Dollar Security Initiative also introduces a public dashboard intended to monitor the overall security posture of Ethereum, relying on several key axes:
- Risks related to user experience, including wallet permissions and interface design.
- Smart contract vulnerabilities and deployment practices.
- Infrastructure and cloud security, including nodes and hosting environments.
- Surveillance, incident response and governance risks, linked to social coordination.
Each area highlights priority risks as well as security measures requiring continued vigilance from developers, infrastructure providers and specialist teams.
According to crypto intelligence platform ScamSniffer, scammers stole nearlya billion dollars over the years. But by 2025, losses dropped sharply to $84 million, an all-time low, thanks to coordinated enforcement, monitoring and investigative efforts by SEALs and other cybersecurity players.
SEAL specified that this collaboration with Ethereum constitutes the first in a series of future partnerships. The organization also invites other blockchain ecosystems to adopt similar sponsorship models to strengthen user protection on a large scale.
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