Jinse Finance reported that Sonic Labs founder Andre Cronje posted, "I'm very confused. So who exactly is the Ethereum Foundation (EF) funding or supporting? When I was developing on Ethereum, I burned through over 700 ETH just on deployment and infrastructure. I tried to contact EF, but never received any response—no business connection, no grants, no support of any kind, not even a retweet. Later, when I started participating in the Sonic ecosystem, I was really confused because most of the teams there had BD support, foundation funding, TVL incentives, audits, and ongoing marketing. I thought EF operated the same way. But if they're not supporting core developers (like Peter and the geth team), nor backing the most active Layer 2 projects (like Sandeep and Polygon), then where exactly is all their money going?"