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Gray Glacier Upgrade Announcement

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled network upgrade at block 15,050,000, which is expected to occur on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and time zones. Please upgrade your node be...

16 Jun 2022

Spotlight on LatAm: Identity solutions for Govtech

The following is an update from Ethereum Foundation Fellow Chuy Cepeda. Our identities hold immense power. In a time when people take great pride in using multiple pseudonyms or personas, we often think about how to identify ourselves. I identify as a...

7 Jun 2022

DEVCON VI: Applications Online, Participation Details Inside

Queridos amigos, It’s happening. Devcon is back! When we first announced that Devcon would take place in Bogotá, we spoke about all the city had to offer, and what we dreamed the event could become. Later this year, we will finally meet in Bogotá. W...

6 Jun 2022

Maya makes Lalamove deliveries more convenient and rewarding

Maya makes Lalamove deliveries more convenient and rewarding

3 Jun 2022

Ropsten TTD Announcement

A Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) of 50000000000000000 has been selected for the Ropsten Merge. Stakers and node operators must manually override the TTD in both their execution and consensus layer clients before June 7, 2022. Proof-of-Work testnets ca...

3 Jun 2022

All-in-one money app Maya sets the bar higher with fresh features and creative collabs

Exciting drop for June includes Personal Goals, new crypto coins, and more

2 Jun 2022

Grantee Roundup: May 2022

It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we check in on projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achi...

1 Jun 2022

Maya tops NPC’s privacy awareness awards

For building a more secure ecosystem for consumers and enterprises, the country's only all-in-one money platform Maya has won huge recognitions at the Privacy Awareness Week Awards 2022 organized by the National Privacy Commission (NPC).

30 May 2022

Maya launches a powerful youth anthem with Shanti Dope

P1M worth of cash prizes up for grabs hidden in the music video!

30 May 2022

Wrapping up Devconnect, looking ahead!

A few weeks ago, we came together in Amsterdam for the first-ever Devconnect. Over eight days, members of the Ethereum community hosted events, intensive workshops, and enlightening talks. When we announced Devconnect, we envisioned the ecosystem comi...

30 May 2022

Ropsten Merge Announcement

Ropsten will be the first longstanding testnet to run through The Merge A new Ropsten Beacon Chain was launched on May 30, 2022 to provide consensus to the network The Ropsten Beacon Chain will upgrade to merge-compatible protocol rules (Bellatrix) at ...

30 May 2022

Finalized no. 35

tl;dr ETHStaker/clr.fund Ethereum Staking CLR in progress! Don't wait, 5 days left to contribute Data Availability Sampling is a hard but critical problem. Submit a proposal to the DAS RFP to get involved: $1.5M in funding available!...

19 May 2022

Secured #4: Bug Bounty Rewards now up to $250,000 USD

The Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty Program is one of the earliest and longest running programs of its kind. It was launched in 2015 and targeted the Ethereum PoW mainnet and related software. In 2020, a second Bug Bounty Program for the new Proof-of-St...

16 May 2022

6% interest rate, crypto, credit, and all the other mind-blowing features you can discover on the new Maya app!

13 May 2022

Best Place to Buy Binance Coin

Today, there are more than 19,000 crypto assets listed on CoinMarketCap that are traded across more than 500 exchanges. While Bitcoin and Ethereum represent upwards of 60% of the market...
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11 May 2022

What Is Tezos?

Tezos (XTZ) is an open-source decentralized blockchain network platform linked to a digital token known as a Tez. It is an application backed by a community of builders, researchers, and...
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19 Apr 2022

Ethereum Foundation Report

Today, we’ve published the EF report, which we hope helps the community understand what the Ethereum Foundation is, our core principles, and our vision of Ethereum as an infinite garden. Click here to read the full report, and to learn more about the ...

18 Apr 2022

Secured #3: Security Teams

Over the past year, the Ethereum Foundation has significantly grown its team of dedicated security researchers and engineers. Members have joined from a variety of backgrounds ranging from cryptography, security architecture, risk management, exploit d...

14 Apr 2022

Best Place to Buy Tron

What Is Tron? Tron (TRX) is a fully decentralized platform that incorporates entertainment and content sharing capabilities through the use of blockchain and peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies. It aims at...
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31 Mar 2022

PKT Cash – Development Update Q1-2022

This update will cover PKT technology development through Q1 2022. PKT is an open-source project. All of the PKT blockchain code and the various projects being developed in the PKT...
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31 Mar 2022

Finalized no. 34

tl;dr Kiln🧱🔥 is up, check it out #TestingTheMerge is in full swing. Do your part, get involved!...

23 Mar 2022

Announcing the Kiln Merge Testnet

The Kintsugi 🍵 merge testnet, launched late December, has been a valuable testing ground for The Merge. Through various test suites, multi-client devnets, shadow forks of Goerli, application deployments, and the community's help #TestingTheMerge, we've...

14 Mar 2022

Secured #2: Public Vulnerability Disclosures

Today, we disclosed the first set of vulnerabilities from the Ethereum Foundation's Bug Bounty Programs. These vulnerabilities were previously discovered and reported directly to the Ethereum Foundation or client teams via the Bug Bounty Programs for b...

9 Mar 2022

Announcing Grants Round for Academic Research

We are excited to announce a new wave of grants to fund formal research that aims to create more knowledge about Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains. We encourage academics, research centers, PhD Students and all those interested in re...

1 Mar 2022

Grantee Roundup: January 2022 – Japan Local Grants Edition!

In today’s roundup, we’re excited to feature four recipients from a recent Local Grants wave in Japan! We see Ethereum as an ever-growing, creative and inclusive playground, and it is our responsibility to let everyone keep playing. It’s not easy to c...

24 Feb 2022

Devcon: Hacia Colombia en 2022 [Redux]

Queridos Amigos, A few years ago, we outlined what Devcon was all about in the original version of this post, and spoke to our renewed focus on growing the Ethereum ecosystem. In this updated version, we're excited to re-announce Devcon 6, and to sha...

18 Feb 2022

Allocation Update: Q3 and Q4, 2021

This one's a double header! Below you'll find the lists of grantees from both Q3 and Q4 of 2021. A note on categories: where we once listed Ethereum 1.0/1.x or Ethereum 2.0, you'll now see "Execution Layer" and "Consensus Layer" respectively. This is ...

15 Feb 2022

Devconnect: 18-25 April 2022 in Amsterdam

In our last post, we outlined Devconnect as a week-long gathering that will feature independent Ethereum events, which aim to bring the Ethereum community together in smaller groups to talk, learn about, or make serious progress on specific subjects. L...

1 Feb 2022

Grantee Roundup: December 2021

It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent mile...

31 Jan 2022

Finalized no. 33

tl;dr Merge progress -- minor spec updates, engineering full steam ahead 🚂 No progress in client diversity. Be selfish, run a minority client!...

31 Jan 2022