On July 31, Taiko, the zkRollup-based Ether Layer2 network, said on the X platform, “In a series of media articles that have occurred recently claiming that the Ether Foundation has abandoned Taiko through the sale of its tokens, we are unhappy with the way such articles have been published as they have not made any attempt to contact Taiko prior to publishing them for verification. No Taiko entity has ever sent any tokens to the EtherFoundation. We would like to emphasize that Taiko maintains a strong relationship with the EtherFoundation, as we were the first Base Rollup, and that has been our philosophy from the beginning and will not change. In fact, at a recent EthCC event, during one of Vitalik's keynote speeches, we were labeled 'EVM purists', which further confirms the connection between Taiko and the EtherFoundation.”