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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:
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Announcing Beneficiaries of the Ethereum Foundation Grants
Weβre 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 - IcebergΒΉ
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. Iβm 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 β 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: Valentineβs 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:An Update on Integrating Zcash on Ethereum (ZoE)
Members of the Ethereum R&D team and the Zcash Company are collaborating on a research project addressing the combination of programmability and privacy in blockchains. This joint post is being concurrently posted on the Zcash blog,and is coauthored by Ariel Gabizon (Zcash) and Christian Reitwiessner (Ethereum). Ethereumβs flexible smart...
Published on: January 19, 2017 | Source:Introduction of the Light Client for DApp developers
The first version of the Light Ethereum Subprotocol (LES/1) and its implementation in Geth are still in an experimental stage, but they are expected to reach a more mature state in a few months where the basic functions will perform reliably.The light client has been designed to function more or...
Published on: January 07, 2017 | Source:December Roundup
December marks a month of continued progressin the Ethereum ecosystem. Research on proof of stake and sharding continues after the research team's workshop in Singapore in November, the light client slowly keeps getting better, Whisper and Swarm keep moving forward, and discussions on protocol economics and community governance co...
Published on: December 31, 2016 | Source:Security alert [12/19/2016]: Ethereum.org Forums Database Compromised
On December 16, we were made aware that someone had recently gained unauthorized access to a database from forum.ethereum.org. We immediately launched a thorough investigation to determine the origin, nature, and scope of this incident. Here is what we know: The information that was recently accessed is...
Published on: December 19, 2016 | Source:Swarm alpha public pilot and the basics of Swarm
With the long awaited geth 1.5 ("let there bee light") release, Swarm made it into the official go-ethereum release as an experimental feature. The current version of the code is POC 0.2 RC5 -- "embrace your daemons" (roadmap), which is the refactored and cleaner version of the codebase that was...
Published on: December 15, 2016 | Source:The History of Casper - Chapter 2
This chapter describes the game theory and economic security modelling we were doing in the Fall of 2014. It recounts how the "bribing attacker model" led our research directly to a radical solution to the long range attack problem....
Published on: December 07, 2016 | Source:The History of Casper - Chapter 1
Vitalik suggested last week that I share my basic research and design philosophy in a blog post, I agreed but complained that it was still changing. My friend Jon West told me that everyone would really appreciate it if I told everyone about my Casper research, I mostly agreed. Then...
Published on: December 06, 2016 | Source:zkSNARKs in a nutshell
The possibilities of zkSNARKs are impressive, you can verify the correctness of computations without having to execute them and you will not even learn what was executed - just that it was done correctly. Unfortunately, most explanations of zkSNARKs resort to hand-waving at some point and thus they remain something...
Published on: December 05, 2016 | Source:Ethereum Research Update
This week marks the completionof our fourth hard fork, Spurious Dragon,and the subsequent state clearing process, the final steps in the two-hard-fork solution to the recent Ethereum denial of service attacks that slowed down the network in September and October. Gas limits are in the proce...
Published on: December 04, 2016 | Source:Security alert [11/24/2016]: Consensus bug in geth v1.4.19 and v1.5.2
Security Alert Affected configurations: Geth Severity: High Summary: An issue has been identified with Geth's journaling mechanism. This caused a network fork at block #2686351 (Nov-24-2016 14:12:07 UTC). The...
Published on: November 25, 2016 | Source:Hard Fork No. 4: Spurious Dragon
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2,675,000, which will likely occur between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 22, 2016. A countdown timer can be seen at https://fork.codetract.io/. The Morden test network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 1,885,000....
Published on: November 18, 2016 | Source: