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#General #Development #Mobile Development #Cloud & DevOps #Cybersecurity & Privacy #AI & Data Science #Hardware & Gadgets #Design & UXThe Long(er) road to Devcon
Friends, In the time since the last Devcon announcement, the state of the Ethereum ecosystem has been electric. Weβve realized critical milestones on the Eth2 roadmap, as well as countless breakthroughs and major progress by teams across the ecosystem. We are incredibly excited to celebrate these achievements with all...
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The State of Eth2, Jan 2021
At the start of December, the Ethereum community bootstrapped the new beacon chain proof-of-stake consensus mechanism -- the foundation of Ethereum's long-term and sustainable home. The launch was a resounding success, and the operation of the beacon chain has proved, thus far, stable and robust. As I write these...
Grantee Roundup December 2020
We're here with our last hurrah before we head into 2021 - read on for the latest news on a few grantees!...
Ethereum.org Translation Program: Milestones and Updates
We hope that you are all excited for the upcoming year-end holidays. Today, we've got some exciting new changes to announce for Ethereum.org's Translation Program and some milestones to celebrate. To start, we canβt thank you enough for all of your support this year. Thanks to you we've been...
Validated, staking on eth2: #6 - Perfect is the enemy of the good
T'was the day before genesis, when all was prepared, geth was in sync, my beacon node paired. Firewalls configured, VLANs galore, hours of preparation meant nothing ignored. Then all at once everything went awry, the SSD in my system decided to die. My configs were gone, chain data was...
We are sunsetting Studio
Within the next few weeks, we'll be winding down Ethereum Studio. Please use this time to download any projects you have saved. To download your project, use the download icon in the file explorer. If you're looking for another web environment for your Solidity development, we recommend Remix....
The Burden of Proof(s): Code Merkleization
A note about the Stateless Ethereum initiative: Research activity has (understandably) slowed in the second half of 2020 as all contributors have adjusted to life on the weird timeline. But as the ecosystem moves incrementally closer to Serenity and the Eth1/Eth2 merge, Stateless Ethereum work will become increasingly relevant and...
eth2 quick update no. 21
Minimum ETH threshold hit ; genesis on December 1st, 12pm UTC Get your nodes running! and monitor updates through genesis ...
EthereumJS VM v5 Release
While everyone is staring in amazement on December 1st, 12pm UTC anticipating the Eth 2.0 Beaconchain genesis, within the JavaScript team we quietly prepared our own little genesis release in the shadows. Being very much around the good ol' Eth 1.0 chain we are nevertheless very much excited on this...
Allocation Update: Q3 2020
It's quarterly update time again! The big news is is the Q3 grantees, of course, but we always like to share what else the ESP team has been up to. A few things we've knocked out lately: Added a Guide to ESP on our website. Here you'll find details...
Grantee Roundup: November 2020
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 projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees! Where...
Medalla data challenge results
The EF is excited to announce the results of the Medalla data challenge, a data hackathon focused on the Medalla testnet The prompt was open-ended: we asked for data tools, visualizations, and analyses of testnet data; in short, anything that would help the community make sense of all...
eth2 quick update no. 20
tl;dr Staking community grants v1.0 eth2 testnets -- Toledo and Pyrmont Mainnet deposits to 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa...
eth2 quick update no. 19
Contract deployment Genesis deposits Bootstrap consensus tl;dr v1.0 specs released ...
Introducing the new ethereum.org developer portal
Hey Ethereum community! We last spoke August 5 β how you been? We're here to talk about something fresh we've shipped. Maybe you've already noticed, but we've got a new Developers section. For a long time, this content was a wall of link...
eth2 quick update no. 18
Oh you, Spadina, Finally, finality Hello and farewell tl;dr A quick Spadina postmortem New testnet: Zinken. Launchpad is live; Genesis deposits due in one week!...
eth2 quick update no. 17
Last chance to practice genesis before mainnet tl;dr Spadina Launchpad is live. Spadina genesis in 7 days! Deposit CLI audit completed by Trail of Bits EIP 2982: Serenity Phase 0 released ...
eth2 quick update no. 16
Canβt travel these days Miss the people, not the planes Spadina, not Spain tl;dr Spadina (deposit and genesis dress rehearsal) testnet coming up Medalla Data Challenge in progress RFP for audit of blst super fast BLS12-381 signature library ...
Q2 Allocation Update
Hello again! Weβre back to share the grants that went out over the second quarter of 2020 - but first, some ESP updates from the last few months: We're writing about grants today, but grants are not the only kind of support ESP can offer! We recently published a...
eth2 quick update no. 15
Farmer minds his crops An optimistic outlook The fields are aflame tl;dr Medalla chugging along smoothly Client diversity is a must eth1+eth2 (Phase 1.5 aka The Merge) end-to-end demo Testing and audits continue as we approach Phase 0 launch...
The Stateless Tech Tree: reGenesis Edition
This week we're revising the Tech Tree to reflect some new major milestones to Ethereum 1.x R&D that are not quite a complete realization of Stateless Ethereum, but much more reasonably attainable in the mid-term. The most significant addition to the tech tree is Alexey's reGenesis proposal. This is far...
Validated, staking on eth2: #5 - Why client diversity matters
\*Disclaimer: None of this is meant as a slight against any client in particular. There is a high likelihood that each client and possibly even the specification has its own oversights and bugs. Eth2 is a complicated protocol, and the people implementing it are only human. The point of this...
ESP: Beyond Grants
Since transitioning into the Ecosystem Support Program from EF Grants, weβve talked about defining βsupportβ more comprehensively, thinking beyond simple grant funding. But what does a more comprehensive definition of support actually mean? In practice, it means something different for every project, and it starts with a conversation. ESP...
Announcing Devcon Improvement Proposals (DIPs)
Today, we (the Devcon organizing team) are excited to make public a new way to get involved in next yearβs event, and one that should make Devcon an experience that better represents Ethereum as a whole. Devcon Improvement Proposals (DIPs) are a new tool to involve collaborative community input...
Development update #4 β ethereum.org
Hey Ethereum community! It's been a few months since our last update so it's about time we let you know what's been happening over at ethereum.org....
eth2 quick update no. 14
All eyes on Medalla testnet -- genesis in less than 24 hours tl;dr Medalla testnet launches August 4th at 1pm UTC New multi-client attacknet is up with new challenges and larger bounties...
Ethereum turns 5 π
Five years ago today, Ethereum's genesis block marked the official network launch. Today, most members of the community spend their time thinking about all of the work that's left to be done, but it's also important to recognize on this fifth anniversary of Ethereum's launch just how unbelievably far...
Ethereum.org Translation Program: Milestone and Updates
Your browser does not support the video tag. Today weβre excited to celebrate a huge milestone - Ethereum.org now supports 30 languages! Since we launched the Website Translation Program seven months ago, weβve se...
The 1.x Files: GHOST in the Stack Machine
Ethereum can be simple enough to understand from a bird's-eye view: Decentralized applications powered by the same sort of crypto-economic guarantees that underpin Bitcoin. But once you've zoomed in to, say, a street-level view, things get complicated rapidly. Even assuming one has a strong grasp on proof-of-work, it's not...
eth2 validator launchpad π
After months of hard work from the eth2 research team, along with Consensys and DeepWork Studio, we're happy to announce the release of the eth2 validator launchpad (testnet version). We're releasing it now so that you can keep track of, and make deposits into, the upcoming Medalla multi-client testnet....
eth2 quick update no. 13
Testnets, testnets, testnets! tl;dr Medalla multi-client testnet launch date set Initial beta attacknets are up. Calling all whitehats Exciting progress on the eth1+eth2 merger ...
Ask about Geth: Snapshot acceleration
\This is part #1 of a series where anyone can ask questions about Geth and I'll attempt to answer the highest voted one each week with a mini writeup. This week's highest voted question was: Could you share how the flat db structure is different from the legacy structure?\...
eth2 quick update no. 12
As always, a lot continues to happen on the eth2 front. Aside from written updates (check out the State of Eth2 post below) and other public summaries, client teams, contributors, and community members/prospective-validators have been busy! Today, we'll cover some significant deposit contract news, and big steps toward implementation...
The 1.x Files: EIP 1559 and the Ethereum Improvement Horizon
I've been thinking recently about post-apocalyptic wastelands. Specifically, about this scene from Mad Max: Fury Road, when the main characters have just escaped the first wave of pursuit, and are staying ahead of their would-be captors. They need to keep moving, but still need to do maintenance on the centerpiece...