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Ethereum Foundation 2020 Spring Update
To the users and the builders, Weβve said it before and weβll say it again: Ethereumβs 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 development over the last...
Published on: May 19, 2020 | Source:
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Ecosystem Support Program: Allocation Update, Q1 2020
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 Program spent 2019, and how we allocated financial support throughout the year....
Published on: May 07, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 11
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 full of excellent eth2...
Published on: May 06, 2020 | Source:Development Update #3 - Ethereum.org
Hey Ethereum! Hereβs the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...
Published on: May 05, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: A Primer for the Witness Specification
Since a lot of us have a bit more time on our hands, I thought now might be a good opportunity to proceed with something perhaps a little bit boring and tedious, but nevertheless quite fundamental to the Stateless Ethereum effort: understanding the formal Witness Specification. Like the captain...
Published on: May 04, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The Updated Stateless Tech Tree
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Published on: April 02, 2020 | Source:Ecosystem Support Program: Allocation Update
As we embark on a new decade(!), the Ecosystem Support Program team wanted to speak to some of the recent growth, transition and learning around the program, and share details of our 2019 financial allocations....
Published on: April 01, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 10
Have some fun announcements for y'all this week :) Other than the items below, client teams continue to move toward production. More on that next week! tl;dr Least Authority Phase 0 audit complete Phase 0 Pre-Launch Bounty Program Unification of eth1+eth2 communications in the Eth R&D...
Published on: March 31, 2020 | Source:Introducing the Devcon Archive (and an event update)
Friends, Out of respect for those within our own community and around us currently facing the ongoing global health crisis, our team has decided to temporarily hold scheduled Devcon announcements, first teased in our last post. In the meantime we wanted to share something else that weβve been working...
Published on: March 30, 2020 | Source:Validated, staking on eth2: #3 - Sharding Consensus
Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Joseph Schweitzer for review. Sharding is one of the many improvements that eth2 has over eth1. The term was borrowed from database research where a shard means a piece of a larger whole. In the context of databases and eth2, sharding means...
Published on: March 27, 2020 | Source:Development Update #2 - Ethereum.org
Hey Ethereum! Hereβs the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...
Published on: March 20, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 9
Strange times. I hope you are all well and continue to take care of yourselves, your families, and your communities. We're a bit overdue on a quick update. My apologies. I'll keep them coming at a regular clip after this one. Eth2 is looking good -- Phase 0 is...
Published on: March 17, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The State(lessness) of the Union
The next Stateless Ethereum research call is coming up in less than a week! The telegram chat now has hundreds of messages to catch up on, and only a small portion of the topics discussed have made it into the ethresearch forums. This post is just a quick primer...
Published on: February 18, 2020 | Source:Validated, staking on eth2: #2 - Two ghosts in a trench coat
Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Danny Ryan for review. In this installment, we'll discuss the consensus mechanisms behind eth2. Eth2 has a novel approach to deciding which block is the head of the chain, along with which blocks are and are not a part of the chain....
Published on: February 12, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 8
Keep it coming tldr; Audit and formal verification of deposit contract bytecode completed by Runtime Verification The word of the month is "optimization" Ongoing Phase 2 research driven by Quilt and eWASM. Welcome TXRX to the table Whiteblock releases [gossipsub testing results](https://github.com/wh...
Published on: February 04, 2020 | Source:Solidity 0.6.x features: try/catch statement
The try/catch syntax introduced in 0.6.0 is arguably the biggest leap in error handling capabilities in Solidity, since reason strings for revert and require were released in v0.4.22. Both try and catch have been reserved keywords since v0.5.9 and now we can use them to handle failures in external function...
Published on: January 29, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The Stateless Ethereum Tech Tree
I started to write a post that detailed a "roadmap" for Ethereum 1.x research and the path to stateless Ethereum, and realized that it's not actually a roadmap at all ββ at least not in the sense we're used to seeing from something like a product or company. The 1.x...
Published on: January 28, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 7
Welcome to the first eth2 quick update of 2020! This is going to be an exciting year. tldr; Release of v0.10.0 spec as stable target for multi-client testnets and security reviews @paulhauner and @sigp_io team hard at work building Lighthouse Relaunch of [...
Published on: January 16, 2020 | Source:Validated, staking on eth2: #1 - Incentives
Thanks to Joseph Schweitzer and Danny Ryan for review. Welcome back! Having discussed eth2's design philosophy last time, today's focus is on eth2's incentives through the lens of that philosophy. More specifically, we look at the incentives effecting eth2 and how they are realised in the form of rewards,...
Published on: January 13, 2020 | Source:Update on the Vyper Compiler
The idea behind the Vyper Project was to develop something that was designed at the language level to naturally exhibit a high degree of safety. The project was originally authored by Vitalik as a proof-of-concept replacement for Serpent, its predecessor, but shortly after its creation Vyper found itself without a...
Published on: January 08, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The State of Stateless Ethereum
In the last edition of The 1.x files, we did a quick re-cap of where the Eth 1.x research initiative came from, what's at stake, and what some possible solutions are. We ended with the concept of stateless ethereum, and left a more detailed examination of the stateless client for...
Published on: December 30, 2019 | Source:Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade Announcement
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,200,000, which is predicted to occur on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones....
Published on: December 23, 2019 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 6
Welcome to this week's eth2 quick update! A handful of new eth2 testnets have come online and last week I had them all running on my laptop. There is still plenty of work to be done, but this is getting real :). tldr; Announcing comprehensive Phase 0 spec...
Published on: December 19, 2019 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 5
Welcome to this week's eth2 quick update! tldr; Parity's Shasper joins Prysmatic's Sapphire testnet (the first public eth2 multi-client testnet)! Multiple eth2 block explorers launch -- Bitfly's beaconcha.in and Etherscan First eth2 networking call to tackle all the networkings -- Ben's notes and [Mamy's notes](https://gist.gi...
Published on: December 05, 2019 | Source:EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Update
Friends, Since the last EF-Supported Teams report, progress has been made across the board. From improved network conditions, to the coming Istanbul release and Eth1.x and Eth2 development, all areas core to the functionality and sustainability of Ethereum are advancing. This series focuses on teams and efforts from...
Published on: December 03, 2019 | Source:Validated: Staking on eth2 #0
Thanks to Danny and Joe for review. As the launch of the beacon chain grows nearer and eth2 becomes ever more final, the time has come to fast-sync the community with the latest on the inner workings of eth2 and on the concrete requirements, incentives and experience of being...
Published on: November 27, 2019 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 4
Welcome to the fourth installment of eth2 quick update. There are a lot of moving pieces to talk about this week. Other than the heroic eth2 client development going on, these are the highlights: tldr; Grant to Sigma Prime for eth2 differential fuzzing Light Client Task Force is...
Published on: November 21, 2019 | Source:Ethereum Istanbul Upgrade Announcement
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,069,000, which is predicted to occur on Saturday, December 7, 2019. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones....
Published on: November 20, 2019 | Source:Ecosystem Support Program call for applications
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