tl;dr Staking community grants v1.0 eth2 testnets -- Toledo and Pyrmont Mainnet deposits to 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa...

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Contract deployment Genesis deposits Bootstrap consensus tl;dr v1.0 specs released 🚀...

Hey Ethereum community! We last spoke August 5 – how you been? We're here to talk about something fresh we've shipped. Maybe you've already noticed, but we've got a new Developers section. For a long time, this content was a wall of link...

Oh you, Spadina, Finally, finality Hello and farewell tl;dr A quick Spadina postmortem New testnet: Zinken. Launchpad is live; Genesis deposits due in one week!...

📣 Last chance to practice genesis before mainnet 📣 tl;dr Spadina Launchpad is live. Spadina genesis in 7 days! Deposit CLI audit completed by Trail of Bits EIP 2982: Serenity Phase 0 released 🚀...

Can’t travel these days Miss the people, not the planes Spadina, not Spain tl;dr Spadina (deposit and genesis dress rehearsal) testnet coming up Medalla Data Challenge in progress RFP for audit of blst super fast BLS12-381 signature library 💥...

Hello again! We’re back to share the grants that went out over the second quarter of 2020 - but first, some ESP updates from the last few months: We're writing about grants today, but grants are not the only kind of support ESP can offer! We recently ...

Farmer minds his crops An optimistic outlook The fields are aflame tl;dr Medalla chugging along smoothly Client diversity is a must eth1+eth2 (Phase 1.5 aka The Merge) end-to-end demo Testing and audits continue as we approach Phase 0 launch...

This week we're revising the Tech Tree to reflect some new major milestones to Ethereum 1.x R&D that are not quite a complete realization of Stateless Ethereum, but much more reasonably attainable in the mid-term. The most significant addition to the t...

\*Disclaimer: None of this is meant as a slight against any client in particular. There is a high likelihood that each client and possibly even the specification has its own oversights and bugs. Eth2 is a complicated protocol, and the people implementi...

Since transitioning into the Ecosystem Support Program from EF Grants, we’ve talked about defining “support” more comprehensively, thinking beyond simple grant funding. But what does a more comprehensive definition of support actually mean? In practic...

Today, we (the Devcon organizing team) are excited to make public a new way to get involved in next year’s event, and one that should make Devcon an experience that better represents Ethereum as a whole. Devcon Improvement Proposals (DIPs) are a new t...

Hey Ethereum community! It's been a few months since our last update so it's about time we let you know what's been happening over at ethereum.org....

All eyes on Medalla testnet -- genesis in less than 24 hours 👀 tl;dr Medalla testnet launches August 4th at 1pm UTC New multi-client attacknet is up with new challenges and larger bounties...

Five years ago today, Ethereum's genesis block marked the official network launch. Today, most members of the community spend their time thinking about all of the work that's left to be done, but it's also important to recognize on this fifth annivers...

Your browser does not support the video tag. Today we’re excited to celebrate a huge milestone - Ethereum.org now supports 30 languages! 🎉🎉🎉 Since we launched the Website Translation Program seven months ago, we’ve se...

Ethereum can be simple enough to understand from a bird's-eye view: Decentralized applications powered by the same sort of crypto-economic guarantees that underpin Bitcoin. But once you've zoomed in to, say, a street-level view, things get complicated ...

After months of hard work from the eth2 research team, along with Consensys and DeepWork Studio, we're happy to announce the release of the eth2 validator launchpad (testnet version). We're releasing it now so that you can keep track of, and make depo...

Testnets, testnets, testnets! tl;dr Medalla multi-client testnet launch date set 🚀 Initial beta attacknets are up. Calling all whitehats 👩‍🍳 Exciting progress on the eth1+eth2 merger 👊...

\This is part #1 of a series where anyone can ask questions about Geth and I'll attempt to answer the highest voted one each week with a mini writeup. This week's highest voted question was: Could you share how the flat db structure is different from t...

As always, a lot continues to happen on the eth2 front. Aside from written updates (check out the State of Eth2 post below) and other public summaries, client teams, contributors, and community members/prospective-validators have been busy! Today, we'...

I've been thinking recently about post-apocalyptic wastelands. Specifically, about this scene from Mad Max: Fury Road, when the main characters have just escaped the first wave of pursuit, and are staying ahead of their would-be captors. They need to k...

A huge thank you for excellent input and feedback from Sacha Saint-Leger, Joseph Schweitzer, Josh Stark, and protolambda. I spend a lot of my time explaining and answering questions about eth2, and I mean a lot. Some of this on a deep and technical le...

Queridos Amigos, In our most recent update, we outlined what Devcon is all about and spoke to our renewed focus on growing the Ethereum ecosystem. Part of that focus is on making sure that, for all types of attendees, the next Devcon is all that we dr...

Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Danny Ryan for their review. At the core of every Proof of Stake system is a signature scheme. Signatures are used to verify the identity of each validator allowing their actions, both good and bad, to be att...

To the users and the builders, We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Ethereum’s future is bright, and this year we are seeing much of that future come to life as the Ethereum ecosystem builds on a foundation laid by dedicated research and devel...

The Ecosystem Support Program is an arm of the Ethereum Foundation dedicated to providing financial and non-financial support to projects working to help Ethereum grow and thrive. We recently published an update detailing how the Ecosystem Support Pro...

We've all been pretty busy with all the things! I'll try to keep these posts rolling out, but in the meantime, be sure to checkout Ben Edgington's What's New in Eth2 to get your fix. Tune into Ethereal Virtual Summit this Thursday and Friday! It's ful...

Hey Ethereum! Here’s the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...