Ethereum Foundation Supercharges SEAL Alliance to Neutralize Wallet Drainers

In a move that signals a "zero tolerance" policy for on-chain theft, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) has officially locked arms with the Security Alliance (SEAL). This isn't just a handshake agreement; the EF is now directly sponsoring a specialized security engineer whose "sole mission" is to work within SEAL’s intelligence team to hunt down the predators behind wallet-draining scripts.

This partnership marks the transition of Ethereum security from a "reactive" model (fixing things after they break) to a "proactive" hunt for the attackers themselves.

The War on Social Engineering

While Ethereum’s core code is battle-tested, the "human layer" remains the biggest vulnerability. Phishing scammers use sophisticated impersonation and fake protocols to trick users into signing away their assets.

• The Tally: Crypto intelligence experts estimate that these drainers have stolen nearly $1 billion over the last few years.
• The Progress: Thanks to the early "white-hat" efforts of SEAL and other sleuths, drainer-related losses plummeted to an all-time low of $84 million in 2025.
• The Hunt: With the EF now providing institutional funding, the mission is to track the development of "Drainers-as-a-Service" (DaaS) toolkits and neutralize them before they can be deployed at scale.

The "Trillion Dollar Security" Dashboard: Making Safety Measurable

To keep the ecosystem accountable, SEAL and the EF have launched the Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) dashboard. The name reflects Ethereum’s ambition: to be a "civilization-scale" infrastructure capable of securely holding trillions in assets for billions of people.

The dashboard provides real-time transparency into six critical dimensions of the ecosystem

• User Experience (UX): Hardening private key management and making it harder to accidentally sign malicious transactions.
• Smart Contracts: Improving the code lifecycle, from initial dev to professional audits.
• Infrastructure & Cloud: Protecting the backend systems, Layer 2 chains, and RPCs that keep the network running.
• Consensus Protocol: Guarding the core "engine" of Ethereum against validator-level attacks.
• Monitoring & Incident Response: Scaling "SEAL 911" to provide instant, coordinated reactions to hacks.
• Social Layer & Governance: Protecting the people making the decisions and ensuring white-hat hackers have legal "safe harbor."

Each of these categories tracks dozens of specific risk controls, ensuring that progress isn't just a marketing claim, but a data-driven reality.

A Security Blueprint for the Multi-Chain Future

This partnership is a pilot for what SEAL hopes will become an industry-wide standard. By creating a successful "Sponsorship Model" with the Ethereum Foundation, they have built a template that other blockchains can follow.

SEAL has already put out a call to other "forward-thinking ecosystems," inviting them to sponsor similar dedicated intelligence roles. The vision is a unified global defense network where threat intelligence is shared across chains in real-time. The goal? To make the cost of attacking users so high—and the success rate so low—that scammers are forced to find a new line of work.