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Preliminary Q4 2024 Philippine Balance Sheet Approach: The country’s net external liability position eases quarter-on-quarter

PDate: 6/30/2025
Content: The country’s net external liability position eased by 7.4 percent quarter-on-quarter from P3.8 trillion in Q3 2024 to P3.5 trillion in Q4 2024. This overall improvement was primarily driven by the lower net external li...

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1 Jul 2025

FCDU loans slightly decline by 0.2% to USD15.78 billion in Q1 2025

PDate: 6/30/2025
Content: Foreign-denominated bank loans slightly declined by 0.2 percent to US$15.78 billion in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the previous quarter, according to data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). On a year-on-yea...

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30 Jun 2025

Ride the Ripple 🌊

Trade at least ₱15K worth of XRP on Coins and rank up to win a share of the ₱50,000 prize pool!

30 Jun 2025

Month-ahead inflation forecast for June 2025

PDate: 6/30/2025
Content: The BSP projects June 2025 inflation to settle within the range of 1.1 to 1.9 percent. Upward price pressures for the month are likely to be driven by higher meat and vegetable prices, elevated oil prices, and the depreciatio...

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30 Jun 2025

BOP position to remain in deficit amid external challenges

PDate: 6/30/2025
Content: The Philippines’ balance of payments (BOP) is expected to register deficits of about 1 percent of GDP in 2025 and 2026. This outlook reflects a continued current account shortfall and moderating financial flows. While the dom...

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30 Jun 2025

Checkpoint #4: Berlinterop

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. This is a special edition of the series! Ki...

19 Jun 2025

World Experience: Updates from the Next Billion Fellowship

This is an update from the Next Billion Fellowship Program. Applications are rolling and open for cohort 6 beginning in October 2025. Individuals interacting with an application have a user experience. Collectives interacting with a protocol have a wo...

16 Jun 2025

Now accepting interns – Join the Ethereum Season of Internships

We’re thrilled to announce that internship applications are now open for the first-ever Ethereum Season of Internships! The Ethereum Season of Internships is a collection of paid, fully-remote summer internships offered across the Ethereum ecosystem. ...

12 Jun 2025

Tickets are live for the Ethereum World’s Fair! And we’re launching the Supporter Program

It's happening: Devconnect is coming to Buenos Aires, 17–22 November 2025. And we are bringing the first-ever Ethereum World’s Fair to the city. The Ethereum World’s Fair is for the Ethereum community and anyone curious about what Ethereum can do in t...

10 Jun 2025

Ethereum Foundation Treasury Policy

Thank you to the EFers that provided valuable input and feedback to the draft document: Bastian Aue, Vitalik Buterin, Bogdan Popa, Tomasz Stańczak, Fredrik Svantes, Yoav Weiss, Dankrad Feist, Tim Beiko, Nicolas Consigny, Nixo, Alex Stokes, Ladislaus, a...

4 Jun 2025

Checkpoint #3: June 2025

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here....

3 Jun 2025

Announcing the Devconnect ARG Scholars Program

We are excited to announce the Devconnect Scholars Program, as part of Devconnect ARG 2025! The Scholars Program will welcome 100 leaders who are expanding Ethereum's reach by connecting it to new communities, industries, and ideas. Scholars will co-le...

3 Jun 2025

Announcing Protocol

Ethereum stands at the edge of major breakthroughs. zkEVMs have rapidly accelerated, enabling us to rearchitect L1 to simultaneously support scale, verifiability, security and censorship-resistance. L2s are hardening, meeting users where they are, and ...

2 Jun 2025

Announcing the Trillion Dollar Security Initiative

Ethereum is the most secure blockchain ecosystem. This is the result of 10 years of progress and iteration across every level of Ethereum’s technology stack, from wallet UX to developer tooling to consensus protocol security. But being the most secure...

14 May 2025

Allocation Update – Q1 2025

A new year means new momentum, and new grants! Take a look at the projects that received support in Q1 2025, listed below:...

8 May 2025

CVE-2025-30147 – The curious case of subgroup check on Besu

Thanks to Marius Van Der Wijden for creating the test case and statetest, and for helping the Besu team confirm the issue. Also, kudos to the Besu team, the EF security team, and Kevaundray Wedderburn. Additionally, thanks to Yuxiang Qiu, Justin Tragli...

7 May 2025

Announcing the Ethereum Season of Internships

Every year, the Ethereum ecosystem welcomes thousands of builders through community events, hackathons, courses, bootcamps, and campus clubs. However, many newcomers struggle to remain engaged, as they face challenges securing structured early-career o...

5 May 2025

Ethereum University Tour

Are you part of a university blockchain club eager to dive deeper into the world of Ethereum? We want to connect with you! The Ethereum Foundation is sponsoring a global University Tour in partnership with BuidlGuidl, designed to activate student comm...

30 Apr 2025

Checkpoint #2: Apr 2025

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 calls, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here....

29 Apr 2025

Ethereum Foundation’s Management and Board Structure

The recent appointments of the two Co-Executive Directors and President are part of a broader effort to strengthen the Ethereum Foundation, and this structure is designed to ensure our vision, strategic and balanced execution, technical direction, and ...

28 Apr 2025

The Ethereum Foundation’s Vision

_Ethereum’s strength lies in its decentralization — not just technically, but socially and structurally. This blog articulates the EF's vision, its role, and priorities as one of the ecosystem's stewards. We use this moment as an opportunity to restate...

28 Apr 2025

The Ethereum Foundation’s Next Chapter

Hi! This is Hsiao-Wei and Tomasz co-writing this blog post. We've now been in our new Co-Executive Director roles for almost a month. The honeymoon is over, it's time to get moving....

28 Apr 2025

10 Years of Ethereum

On July 30th at 3:26:13 PM +UTC, Ethereum will celebrate 10 years since the genesis block. _Ethereum has come a long way. It came to life, survived and thrived against all odds, and led to breakthroughs in tokenization, fundraising, DeFi and digital o...

24 Apr 2025

Pectra Mainnet Announcement

The Pectra network upgrade is scheduled to activate on the Ethereum mainnet on May 07, 2025 at epoch 364032 (10:05:11 UTC)! Mainnet client releases are listed below....

23 Apr 2025

Destino Devconnect – A local grant round to bring Argentina onchain

We’re kicking off the road to Devconnect in Buenos Aires (Nov 17–22) with Destino Devconnect, a community-powered push to bring Argentina onchain. From now until November, we’re inviting local builders, organizers, and enthusiasts to unite under one ba...

22 Apr 2025

Announcing Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 6

TL;DR: Review the program details for EPF6 🔎 Applications for EPF6 are open until April 30 📝 An introductory town hall will be held for an overview and questions on April 21 at 4PM UTC 🎙️ We are excited to announce that the applications......

17 Apr 2025

Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 5 Recap

TL;DR: The EPF successfully concluded the fifth cohort, Study Group 2025 and is preparing for cohort six (EPF6). Applications will be announced soon, keep an eye on the EF blog! In the meantime, get ready by enhancing your Ethereum protocol knowledge a...

10 Apr 2025

Checkpoint – March 2025

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for brief high-level updates with a target cadence of every 4-5 calls, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the initial update here...

25 Mar 2025

Holesky and Hoodi Testnet Updates

The Pectra testnet activation revealed issues in clients with deposit contract configurations changes on Ethereum testnets. While Sepolia's recovery was straightforward and the network has since fully recovered, Holesky experienced extensive inactivity...

18 Mar 2025

Ethereum Foundation Board of Directors Update

We are pleased to announce that Hsiao-Wei Wang is joining the Ethereum Foundation’s Board of Directors. The current board members now include Aya Miyaguchi (President) , Vitalik Buterin (Founder), Patrick Storchenegger (Swiss council) and Hsiao-Wei Wan...

9 Mar 2025