thedao.fund is an Ethereum security public-goods fund that channels recovered assets from The DAO's 2016 hack into ongoing infrastructure grants and staking yield. thedao.fund's Twitter Score is 48 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #18,872 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
thedao.fund was announced in January 2026 to reactivate more than 75,000 ETH in unclaimed assets left over from the 2016 The DAO hack recovery. It stewards approximately 70,500 ETH from the ExtraBalance contract and roughly 4,600 ETH held in TheDAO's Curator Multisig, with 69,420 ETH designated as a staked endowment whose yield funds Ethereum security work. Curators overseeing the fund include Vitalik Buterin, Taylor Monahan, Jordi Baylina, pcaversaccio, Alex Van de Sande, Griff Green, and Pol Lanski.
thedao.fund directs grants toward wallet UX, key management, smart-contract security, infrastructure, threat detection, incident response, and Layer 2 and bridge security. In April and May 2026, it ran an Ethereum Security quadratic-funding round on Giveth with a 500 ETH matching pool, ultimately distributing more than 638 ETH across 134 projects. thedao.fund is affiliated with the Ethereum Foundation, Dappnode, Security Alliance, SEAL 911, and Superfluid. thedao.fund has been mentioned by 102 accounts a total of 179 times, and the account has published 523 posts since joining in 2025.
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The accounts that follow thedao.fund include 188 founders, 46 angel investors and 61 influencers, among them ZachXBT, Laura Shin, sassal.ethacc, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, 0xMaki and Binji.