ChainCatcher news, Taiko, the Ethereum Layer2 network based on zkRollup, said on the X platform: "In a series of recent media articles, some articles claimed that the Ethereum Foundation abandoned Taiko by selling tokens. We are dissatisfied with the way such articles were published because they did not try to contact Taiko for verification before publishing. No Taiko entity has sent any tokens to the Ethereum Foundation. We want to emphasize that Taiko has a close working relationship with the Ethereum Foundation because we are the first Base Rollup. We have been adhering to this philosophy from the beginning and it will not change. In fact, at the recent EthCC event, in a keynote speech by Vitalik, we were labeled as 'EVM purists', which further confirmed the connection between Taiko and the Ethereum Foundation."