Ethereum

Announcing the districts of the Ethereum World’s Fair

World’s Fairs have historically showcased the biggest innovations of their time like telephones, televisions, photography, and light bulbs. In this spirit, Ethereum gets its own World’s Fair this November in Buenos Aires. A week where the ecosystem doe...

18 Sep 2025

Fusaka $2,000,000 Audit Contest!

Today, we are excited to announce the start of the Fusaka audit contest, co-sponsored by Gnosis and Lido, hosted on Sherlock, and running for four weeks from September 15th. The goal is simple: maximize scrutiny of the Fusaka upgrade and surface vulner...

15 Sep 2025

Fidelity’s Tokenized Money Market Fund Rolled Out on Ethereum With Ondo Holding $202M

The Fidelity Digital Interest Token is the latest entrant in the $7 billion and rapidly growing tokenized U.S. Treasuries market.

9 Sep 2025

Holešky Testnet Shutdown Announcement

As previously announced, the Holešky testnet has reached its planned end-of-life date and will be sunset shortly. The vast majority of remaining validator nodes will be shut down 2 weeks after the Fusaka upgrade has finalized on Holešky. After this, Ho...

1 Sep 2025

Deadline Nears for Base Onchain Summer Awards and Campus Mini App Challenge

Base’s Onchain Summer Awards close on September 2, 2025, followed by the Campus Mini App Challenge on September 5.

31 Aug 2025

The Ecosystem Support Program’s Next Chapter

The EF’s Grants Program launched in 2018 and has evolved over time to become the Ecosystem Support Program (ESP), providing grants and support to builders that help the Ethereum ecosystem thrive. Our mission is to enable work that strengthens Ethereum’...

29 Aug 2025

Protocol Update 003 — Improve UX

A few months ago, we announced a renewed focus of Protocol on three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale blobs, Improve UX. Following previous updates on Scale L1 and Scale blobs, this note relates to our “Improve UX” track, and its mission: **Seaml...

29 Aug 2025

Protocol Update 002 – Scale Blobs

Following up from Protocol Update 001, we’d like to introduce our approach to blob scaling. The L1 serves as a robust foundation for L2 systems to scale Ethereum, and a necessary component of secure L2 solutions is data availability provided by the L1....

22 Aug 2025

Trillion Dollar Security – Phase 2

Since announcing the Trillion Dollar Security project, we have surveyed the ecosystem to understand which improvements are highest priority to every layer of the Ethereum stack and community. Now it is time to begin the next phase of this initiative: ...

20 Aug 2025

Join Us: EF Protocol Reddit AMA – August 29th, 2025

Since January 2019, the Ethereum Foundation has held a tradition of engaging directly with the community through our "Ask Us Anything" (AMA) series on Reddit, occurring roughly every six months. These AMAs, previously hosted by the EF Research team, ha...

15 Aug 2025

Figment Outpaces Rivals in Ether Staking Growth, Lido’s Decline Eases Dominance Concerns

The shift points to a staking ecosystem that is maturing. For Ethereum, this diversification may be a sign of improved blockchain health.

14 Aug 2025

Bitcoin’s 5% flash crash to $118k triggers $577 million liquidation in 1 hour

Bitcoin’s price experienced a sharp pullback on Aug. 14, dropping below $120,000 less than a day after reaching a new all-time high above $124,000. According to CryptoSlate data, BTC fell to $118,479 at press time, marking a 2.07% decline on the 1-hour candle and 5% from its 24-hour peak. The sudden dip rippled across the […]
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14 Aug 2025

Ether-Led Rally Pushed Crypto Market Cap to $3.7T in July: JPMorgan

Ether outperformed last month as volumes, ETF flows hit records, the report said.

14 Aug 2025

Protocol Update 001 – Scale L1

In June, we introduced Protocol, reorganizing the Ethereum Foundation’s research & development teams to better align on our current strategic goals, Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX without compromising on our commitment to Ethereum's security and...

5 Aug 2025

lean Ethereum

Yesterday Ethereum turned 10. Today, lean Ethereum is unveiled as a vision—and personal mission—for the next 10 years. We stand at the dawn of a new era. Millions of TPS. Quantum adversaries. How does Ethereum marry extreme performance with uncompromi...

31 Jul 2025

Celebrating 10 Years of Ethereum

On July 30, 2025, the Ethereum community marked a major milestone: ten years since the Ethereum’s genesis block and mainnet launch. What began as a whitepaper has evolved into a decentralized platform now powering thousands of applications, tools, and...

30 Jul 2025

Checkpoint #5: July 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. !we-are-here.png......

29 Jul 2025

Ethereum ETFs Pull In $8.7B in First Year After Almost $5B Rush in Past Two Weeks

BlackRock’s spot Ethereum ETF has reached $10 billion in assets, as the broader ETH fund group saw 14 straight days of inflows.

25 Jul 2025

Arthur Hayes Predicts $250K BTC and $10K ETH | BitPinas Live Crypto Updates | July 24, 2025

From a bold new Ethereum price prediction to new banks accepting crypto, we’re tracking today’s most important crypto and AI stories as they unfold. This article will be updated throughout the day.

23 Jul 2025

Allocation Update – Q2 2025

From grassroots gatherings to breakthrough projects, here's what we supported in Q2 2025! Scroll down to explore the work happening across the Ethereum ecosystem:...

23 Jul 2025

The Future of Ecosystem Development at the EF

Ethereum stands at a pivotal moment. Interest in Ethereum has expanded beyond technologists and enthusiasts, bringing enterprises, governments, and everyday users who seek practical solutions and tangible benefits. The Ethereum ecosystem is adapting to...

10 Jul 2025

Shipping an L1 zkEVM #1: Realtime Proving

Thanks to Kevaundray Wedderburn, Alex Stokes, Tim Beiko, Mary Maller, Alexander Hicks, George Kadianakis, Dankrad Feist, and Justin Drake for feedback and review. Ethereum is going all in on ZK. Eventually we expect to migrate to using ZK proofs at al...

10 Jul 2025

Partial history expiry announcement

As of today, all Ethereum execution clients support partial history expiry in accordance with EIP-4444. While work on full, rolling history expiry is ongoing, users can expect to reduce the disk space required for an Ethereum node by 300-500 GB by remo...

8 Jul 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