Crypto

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

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

The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?

Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol to scale to meet global demand while improving security and decentralization. Beyond protocol development, a critical shift in Ethereum has been the movement...

24 Jan 2022

Best Place to Buy Ethereum

What is Ethereum? Ethereum is a community-built technology behind the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and supports thousands of blockchain applications. Ethereum is one of the world’s largest programmable blockchains and the...
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20 Jan 2022

Best Place to Buy Litecoin

What is Litecoin? Litecoin is a cryptocurrency that was established in 2011. Litecoin’s primary purpose is to be a more user-friendly version of Bitcoin. Litecoin transactions are said to be...
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20 Jan 2022

Announcing the KZG Ceremony

High fees have made life difficult for travelers through these Dark Forests. The Pools of Mem once clouded, now clarified by the filter of 1559, reveal that they are not deep enough to sustain. Legends tell of a society flourishing under the abundance...

16 Jan 2022

PKT Cash – Development Update Nov/Dec 2021

This update will cover PKT technology development progress through November & December 2021. PKT is an open-source project. All of the PKT blockchain code and the various projects being developed...
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31 Dec 2021

SafePKT, a toolbox to verify rust-based smart contracts

In the SafePKT project, funded by the 3rd round of the NGI LEDGER program, our team focused on improving software development efficiency (and therefore time to market) for software used within the PKT...
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23 Dec 2021

EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Roundup

We all have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season, from the first birthday of the beacon chain, to the successful upgrades over the past year and the incredible progress across the entire Ethereum ecosystem. As a highly productive year draws to...

22 Dec 2021

Announcing the Kintsugi Merge Testnet

Since returning from the Amphora merge workshop, client teams have been hard at work implementing the latest versions of merge specifications and testing them on devnets. After four ephemeral devnets, Kintsugi 🍵, a longer-lived public testnet, is now ...

20 Dec 2021

An update on Devcon 6, and something new…

It’s been a little while, and we’ve got some news....

13 Dec 2021

Announcing the Client Incentive Program

Note: this post was updated on April 4, 2022 to include a full copy of the Client Incentive Program details. A diverse set of clients is key to the Ethereum network's health and decentralization. Diversity ensures that innovation continues at the base...

13 Dec 2021