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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-072825"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETHE"
cik: "0001725210"
company_name: "Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF"
filed_at: "2023-12-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T07:24:30.798505+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grayscale Ethereum Trust Sponsor board reshuffled; Silbert and Murphy resign

## Summary
- Barry Silbert and Mark Murphy resign from the Sponsor's board, effective Jan 1, 2024.
- Mark Shifke appointed Chairman; he is CFO of Digital Currency Group.
- Matthew Kummell and Edward McGee join the board effective Jan 1, 2024.
- Board now comprises Shifke, Kummell, Michael Sonnenshein, and McGee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-072825
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETHE
- cik: 0001725210
- company_name: Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF
- filed_at: 2023-12-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1725210/000095017023072825/0000950170-23-072825-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1725210/000095017023072825/ethe-20231226.htm

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