{"id":548927,"date":"2026-01-30T04:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/unclaimed-ethereum-from-the-dao-hack-to-fund-new-security-initiative-griff-green\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:52:44","slug":"unclaimed-ethereum-from-the-dao-hack-to-fund-new-security-initiative-griff-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/unclaimed-ethereum-from-the-dao-hack-to-fund-new-security-initiative-griff-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Unclaimed Ethereum from The DAO hack to fund new security initiative: Griff Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Unclaimed<\/p>\n

While The DAO has an \u201cincredible\u201d team that could build security projects themselves, they would rather focus on security distribution methods, says Griff Green.<\/p>\n

Unclaimed Ethereum tokens from the infamous 2016 hack on The DAO will be redirected into a new security fund aimed at strengthening the network, says Ethereum advocate Griff Green.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of money just sitting in random contracts that were supposed to be returned to people who were affected by the hack,\u201d Green said<\/a> in an interview on Thursday with Unchained podcast host Laura Shin, reiterating plans to launch the security fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The DAO was a decentralized autonomous organization that an anonymous hacker exploited<\/a> in June 2016 to siphon more than $50 million worth of Ether at the time.<\/p>\n

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While The DAO has an \u201cincredible\u201d team that could build security projects themselves, they would rather focus on security distribution methods, says Griff Green. Unclaimed Ethereum tokens from the infamous 2016 hack on The DAO will be redirected into a new security fund aimed at strengthening the network, says Ethereum advocate Griff Green. \u201cThere\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":548928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-548927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}