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Announcing Our dc⟠ıv Sponsors and Supporters!
Přátelé, Today, we're excited to unveil our Devcon4 Sponsors. Each of this year's six tiers of sponsorship is supporting the Foundation's work in significant and impactful ways. We're thrilled to involve many major and growing teams in Devcon, and to make the most of this opportunity to support the...
Published on: October 18, 2018 | Source:
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Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave IV
Greetings from the Ethereum Foundation Grants Team! As we go full steam ahead to Devcon 4, we're back to announce Wave 4 of the Grants Program! Thank you to all the fantastic community members that have applied with creative ideas on how to bolster our ecosystem. We would not...
Published on: October 15, 2018 | Source:Solidity Bugfix Release
The latest version 0.4.25 release of Solidity fixes two important bugs. Another important bug has already been fixed in version 0.4.22 but it was only discovered recently that the bug existed. Note that the Ethereum Foundation runs a bounty program for the code generator part of Solidity....
Published on: September 13, 2018 | Source:Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave III
We've been hard at work getting to know so many amazing people and projects, and are extremely excited to announce the recipients of the Wave III of the Ethereum Foundation Grants Program! We kicked off 2018 with a blog post to galvanize scalability research for first and second-layer solutions....
Published on: August 17, 2018 | Source:Devcon4 Call for Participation!
When we asked many of you, “What are you most excited for at Devcon4?” most people replied: the people! This is the one time a year we all get together in one place. We don’t want to spend all of our time at Devcon sitting in a dark room, staring...
Published on: July 30, 2018 | Source:Answers to your top 3 Devcon4 questions
Your friendly Devcon4 planning team, here to answer your top 3 questions: When’s the next wave of ticket sales? Mark your calendars! We plan to release the next wave of General Admissions tickets on Tuesday, August 7 at 8AM PST. Anyone who applied for a discount or scholarship...
Published on: July 27, 2018 | Source:Devcon4 Application Deadlines Coming Soon
Přátelé. Just a quick update today! Applications for sponsorships, scholarships, student discounts and builder discounts will be up until 11:59PM PST on July 24th. After that, there will no longer be a way to submit an application for these tracks. Please note that if you've already submitted an...
Published on: July 19, 2018 | Source:An Update on Devcon4 Ticket Allocations & Sales
Friends, It has been an exciting week! We initiated our first wave of ticket sales and sold out in just 18 minutes! Don’t worry though, there will be more ticketing waves in addition to a variety of discounts and scholarships that you can still apply for. Transparency and clear...
Published on: July 17, 2018 | Source:Devcon4 Ticket Sales
Friends, Today, we’re happy to announce some significant updates to the Devcon4 website, and with it we wanted to unveil a bit about the ticketing and discount processes and more! Applications for scholarships and builder & student discounts are now open! Are you a builder working for...
Published on: July 03, 2018 | Source:Announcing Swarm Proof-of-Concept Release 3
The Swarm Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Swarm client v0.3, the third proof-of-concept release (POC3) of the Ethereum Swarm client. The POC3 code is now merged into the official go-ethereum repository's master branch. Swarm 0.3 has been deployed to the public Testnet, and the Ethereum...
Published on: June 21, 2018 | Source:Devcon4 Announcement
Přátelé, Now that we’re well into the year, we know that many of you have started to plan ahead for changing weather, holiday celebrations, and (of course) Devcon! We’re excited to announce today that Devcon4 will take place in Prague from 30 October - 02 November of this...
Published on: May 11, 2018 | Source:Announcing May 2018 Cohort of EF Grants
Thank you all for applying, and we’re excited to announce the latest Ethereum Foundation grants! We funded 22 recipients for a total of $2.84M....
Published on: May 02, 2018 | Source:Announcing World Trade Francs: The Official Ethereum Stablecoin
We have long recognized that in order for cryptocurrency to reach mass adoption, a form of cryptocurrency that has higher price stability than existing cryptocurrencies like BTC and ETH would be needed so that people can use the currency to store funds and engage in commerce without worrying about their...
Published on: April 01, 2018 | Source:Announcing Beneficiaries of the Ethereum Foundation Grants
We’re excited to share the results of the first wave of grants from the Ethereum Foundation. As a reminder, the Ethereum project seeks to support useful dapps and smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and the goal of the Ethereum Foundation is to empower developers with best-in-class R&D, developer...
Published on: March 07, 2018 | Source:Geth 1.8 - Iceberg¹
After waaay too much time under development, we're proud to finally announce version 1.8.0 of the Go Ethereum client: Iceberg! The release fixes a lot of pain points felt by the community and ships a few notable new features, tallying up to ~170 modifications! **Please note, this release introduces...
Published on: February 14, 2018 | Source:Farewell and Welcome
It is with sadness that we announcethat Ming Chan, who has served as Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation for nearly three years, is leaving the Foundation. Since her arrival in 2015, she has played a critical role in the development and success of the Foundation. We will miss the...
Published on: January 31, 2018 | Source:To Infinity and Beyond!
Dear Ethereum community (and wonderful Etherheads!), Today, January 31, 2018, is my last day as Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation. I’m pleased to have been able to guide the Foundation as ED with my fellow directors, team leads, and outstanding group of team members, each of whom...
Published on: January 31, 2018 | Source:Ethereum scalability research and development subsidy programs
The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Blockchain scalability is difficult primarily because a typical blockchain design requires every node in...
Published on: January 02, 2018 | Source:Q4 Roundup
Ethereum has grown very rapidly in the last few months. Transaction volume on the blockchain has more than doubled, surpassing 10 transactions per second for days at a time. The number of new accounts created per day passed 100,000
Published on: January 02, 2018 | Source:Security alert — Chromium vulnerability affecting Mist Browser Beta
Due to a Chromium vulnerability affecting all released versions of the Mist Browser Beta v0.9.3 and below, we are issuing this alert warning users not to browse untrusted websites with Mist Browser Beta at this time. Users of "Ethereum Wallet" desktop app are not affected. Affected configurations: Mist Browser...
Published on: December 15, 2017 | Source:Devcon3 videos available now!
To accommodate the biggest post-devcon request, we're happy to announce that Devcon3 videos are now available for viewing! Aspromised, we recorded sessions from both the main hall and breakout hall on all four days of Devcon3. Given we had two halls instead of one this year, and also added...
Published on: November 26, 2017 | Source:Devcon3!!!
A note from the ED: A big thanks to our attending dev community, presenters, internal team, sponsors, enthusiasts, volunteers, event team, students and other stakeholdersforcoming together for another phenomenal Devcon3! First of all, yes, video of all sessions, both from the Main Hall and Breakout Hall will be...
Published on: November 16, 2017 | Source:Byzantium HF Announcement
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a planned hard fork atblock number 4.37mil (4,370,000), which will likely occur between 12:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC onMonday, October 16, 2017. The Ropsten test network underwent a hard fork on September 19th (UTC) at block number 1.7mil (1,700,000). A countdown timer can be...
Published on: October 12, 2017 | Source:Roundup #6
Metropolis is finally (almost) here! The fork for Byzantium, the first and larger part of Metropolis, succeeded on the testnet over two weeksago, and the likely date for the fork on the mainnet has been set to block 4.37 million, which is expected to be on Oct 17. New features...
Published on: October 09, 2017 | Source:Geth 1.7 - Megara
The Go Ethereum team is proud to announce the next release family of Geth, the first incarnation focusing on laying the groundwork for the upcoming Metropolis hard forks (Byzantium and Constantinople), consisting of 125+ code contributions forvarious parts of the project....
Published on: September 14, 2017 | Source:Roundup #5
Development has steadily continued over the last month and a half as we approach the launch of Metropolis. Over a series of core dev calls over the last few months, we have specified and finalized the EIPs for...
Published on: August 23, 2017 | Source:Statement Objecting To EME as a W3C Recommendation
The Foundation believesEncrypted Media Extensions(EME) should not be published as a W3C Recommendation, and we are now making public the formal objection the Ethereum Foundation submitted to the W3C opposing the recommendation of EME. As a member of the W3C, the Ethereum Foundation contributes to the standards-making process and...
Published on: August 21, 2017 | Source:Roundup Q2
Thanks to all the developers and team leads who contributed to the sections on their projects In the last month and a half, the Ethereum network went through a rapid growth in usage, to the point that it now processes as many transactions per second as Bitcoin. To accommodate...
Published on: July 08, 2017 | Source:Roundup Round III
Over the last month and a half we saw vigorous ongoing research and development on all sides of the Ethereum roadmap, and progress is rapidly starting to translate into real results that can be run and verified inside of an Ethereum client. On Metropolis: Agendas for core dev...
Published on: May 24, 2017 | Source:Solidity optimizer bug
A bug in the Solidity optimizer was reported through the Ethereum Foundation Bounty program, by Christoph Jentzsch. This bug is patched as of 2017-05-03, with the release of Solidity 0.4.11....
Published on: May 03, 2017 | Source:Geth 1.6 - Puppeth Master
Cramming in a lot more goodies than originally anticipated, the Go Ethereum team is proud to finally deliver the first incarnation of the 1.6 Geth release series! Glimpsing through the commit list, this is going to be a monster post!...
Published on: April 14, 2017 | Source:Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1 (Boring Edition)
The last one and a half months have seen great progress for Ethereum research, and we are excited that the protocol is moving closer and closer to the point where it is ready for mainstream adoption. Progress on consensus algorithms, privacy, zero knowledge proofs and formal verification is happening at...
Published on: April 07, 2017 | Source:Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1
The last one and a half months have seen great progress for Ethereum research, and we are excited that the protocol is moving closer and closer to the point where it is ready for mainstream adoption. Progress on consensus algorithms, privacy, zero knowledge proofs and formal verification is happening at...
Published on: April 01, 2017 | Source:Ethereum JS Ecosystem Updates
It's been a fairly busy for the last couple of months for the Ethereum javascripters. To start with, there was a really great hackathon with IPFS.You can read Dan Finlay'sexcellent write up here. Also, during this time Aaron Davis (Kumavis) made s...
Published on: March 21, 2017 | Source:Ethereum R&D Roundup: Valentine’s Day Edition
During the last month and a half, the Ethereum core development and research teams have been building upon the progress made in the last year, and with the specter of last year's security issues now well behind us, work has begun in full force on implementing the Metropolis hard fork....
Published on: February 14, 2017 | Source: