The Ethereum Foundation has launched a comprehensive new security initiative called the "Trillion Dollar Security Dashboard" (1TS), aimed at enhancing the transparency and measurability of the Ethereum network's security posture. Announced on February 5, 2026, the dashboard is designed to provide a holistic view of key risks, existing protections, and ongoing mitigation efforts across the entire ecosystem.
The dashboard focuses on six critical security areas: user experience, smart contract security, infrastructure, cloud security, the consensus protocol, and the social layer and governance. The Ethereum Foundation emphasized that "security begins with user-facing interfaces," highlighting how key management, transaction readability, and interface integrity directly affect user outcomes. For smart contracts, which manage funds and enforce on-chain logic, the initiative tracks 13 specific security controls and is actively working on improving developer tools.
The infrastructure component addresses Layer 2 chains, RPC and node systems, and the software supply chain, recognizing that weaknesses here could bypass on-chain protections. The consensus protocol, which ensures blockchain validity even under adversarial conditions, remains a backbone of trust for financial, governance, and real-world asset applications. The dashboard will also monitor the network's social layer—the participants, organizations, and governance processes—acknowledging that security is both a technical and cultural challenge.
The initiative formalizes over a decade of security lessons learned from public attacks and network failures into a shared framework. It includes 29 identified controls, some of which are already operational while others are under development. The goal is to support Ethereum's continued scale and adoption without relying on centralized control, by strengthening monitoring, incident response capabilities, and community-run services.
