Vitalik Buterin Exceeds Planned Ethereum Sales as Total Liquidations Hit $35M

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has continued selling off his tokens, now exceeding the original planned sales. His total sales have now hit nearly $35 million based on today’s prices.

 Sell Off Continues as Vitalik Buterin Offloads More Ethereum

According to Lookonchain, the Ethereum co-founder sold off additional tokens in the past 24 hours. This brings his total sales to up to $35 million.

The co-founder of Ethereum had announced the allocation of $43 million back in January and stated that he had set aside 16,384 ETH to fund privacy-related systems.

Vitalik Buterin described the effort as something he would personally lead as the Ethereum Foundation was entering a period of “mild austerity.”  A month later, his wallet balance is down by 17,196 tokens, and the token he is selling is down by more than a third of its value.

Data shows that the c0-founder’s attributed wallets had a total of 241,000 ETH at the beginning of February. However, this has reduced to 223,804 tokens as a result of a constant stream of ETH outflows from Buterin’s wallets all month long. This includes $6.6 million in three days earlier in February and another $7 million in the last three days.

ETH has declined by 37% just within the last month alone. The continued sale of Vitalik Buterin has put further downward pressure on the token as it continues to struggle to find its place. Currently, more than 30% of ETH is still locked in staking contracts with returns being compressed to 2.8%.

The recent sale of ETH has affected many of the institutional holders of the token. Just today, CoinGape reported that ETHZilla was abandoning its Ethereum treasury to concentrate more on RWA tokenization. This may be due to the bearish nature of the market over the past months as many are opting to do business with more profitable ventures.

ETH Price Rallies as ETF Inflows Returns

The ETH price has rallied by nearly 9% to $2,060 within the last 24 hours alone, beating the 5% gains of Bitcoin, according to CoinMarketCap.

This value increase has resulted in yet another sale by Vitalik Buterin as its value returns. This comes as the inflows into spot Ethereum funds have resumed after a continued trend of outflows.

Yesterday, according to SoSoValue, the Ethereum spot ETFs of the US recorded a net inflow of $157.08 million. This was led by Fidelity’s fund with $61.94 million and Grayscale’s ETHE with $33.87 million.

On the other hand, one of the biggest Ethereum treasuries, BitMine, has continued to buy the Ethereum token despite having billions of dollars in unrealized losses.