The Ethereum Foundation announced its support for privacy through a new funding mechanism. The Ethereum Funding Coordination Team, in conjunction with the Keyring Network, has launched an initiative to introduce a new method for influencing funding within the Ethereum ecosystem. The zkVerified permissioned vault on the Keyring mainnet provides access to a compliant and privacy-preserving DeFi lending market. During the first two months, all protocol fees from the Keyring zkVerified vault will be donated to the legal defense fund of Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, two Tornado Cash developers currently on trial for releasing open source code. This model ensures that the vault's initial users can directly support the legal defense of privacy-focused developers.