What does Vitalik Buterin know?

Today he sold around $8M in $ETH
And this is not the first time !
End 2021: ~330,920 ETH
End 2022: ~250,150 ETH
End 2023: ~246,030 ETH
End 2024: ~240,610 ETH
End 2025: ~240,010 ETH
Today 240k ETH range
Even after this $8M sale, he still holds well over 200,000 ETH.
Against a circulating supply of more than 120 million ETH, and billions in daily trading volume, this is not a structural exit.
Should you really be worried about it? Because when a founder sells it might look bad at first.
First, context.
Vitalik Buterin has made very few open-market ETH sales since 2021.
He has said multiple times since 2018 that he doesn’t sell ETH for personal gain.
When he moves ETH to exchanges or swaps it, it has historically been tied to donations, research, biotech funding like Kanro, or broader ecosystem support.
That’s his pattern.
Recent 2026 Activity
• Late January: 16,384 ETH moved to another wallet (not sold, reserved for multi-year funding).
• Early February: Between ~2,900 and ~6,100 ETH sold over several days, roughly $6M–$13M total depending on calculation.
• February 22: 3,500 ETH withdrawn from Aave, with 571 ETH sold so far (~$1.1M).
• Today : $8M worth of ETH sold.
These were not massive single market dumps. They were structured swaps in batches.
Founder selling always creates short-term fear. That part is normal. But size matters.
If we were seeing tens of thousands of ETH hitting centralized exchanges aggressively, that would change the discussion.
Right now, what we’re seeing fits his historical pattern: periodic selling tied to funding and allocation, not liquidation.
You don’t have to like it. But the numbers don’t suggest panic.