Author: Michael Johnson
The Road to Altair edition đŁâď¸ tl;dr Pyrmont forks, testing in progress After a series of small but very valuable Altair devnets, Pyrmont — a large public testnet — upgraded last week. The transition to Altair went off without a hitch, setting the stage for the next wave of testing and upgrades. This week, Pyrmont is being put through the ringer as we run a number of test scenarios on the soon-to-be-deprecated testnet. Don’t panic! At the time of writing, Pyrmont is already 482 epochs without finality with a large share of validators taken offline for a few days. Such…
Does development of the core protocols that power the Ethereum blockchain excite you? Are you interested in getting involved at the most fundemental and technical levels of the Ethereum protocol? I am excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the second cohort of the Core Developer Apprenticeship Program (CDAP)! What is CDAP My name is Piper Merriam and I’m a core developer. That means that development and maintenance of the Ethereum protocol is part of my job. Lately, protocol development has been accelerating. The “merge” is getting closer every day, the road to achieving “Stateless Ethereum” continues…
Earlier this year, we launched a bug bounty program focused on finding issues in the beacon chain specification, and/or in client implementations (Lighthouse, Nimbus, Teku, Prysm etc…). The results (and vulnerability reports) have been enlightening as have the lessons learned while patching potential issues. In this new series, we aim to explore and share some of the insight we’ve gained from security work to date and as we move forward. This first post will analyze some of the submissions specifically targeting BLS primitives. Disclaimer: All bugs mentioned in this post have been already fixed. BLS is everywhere A few years…
Itâs always fun to hear about new grants as theyâre awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, weâll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway – or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees! Imapp for EVM Gas Cost Estimator Gas costs in Ethereum are a constant topic of debate and improvement. The average user only sees what they pay to send a transaction – whether the gas limit is very high, very low or just volatile. But where do those suggested gas…
Altair is here; the Merge is coming. tl;dr Altair upgrade, Oct 27 Altair, the first mainnet upgrade to the Beacon Chain, has been scheduled for epoch 74240 (Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC). A subtle but great advantage of proof-of-stake is that we can precisely time upgrades (Sorry Tim! We’ll be done with proof-of-work soon đ) This upgrade brings light-client support to the core consensus, cleans up beacon state incentive accounting, fixes some issues with validator incentives, and steps up the punitive params as per EIP-2982. Huge shout-out to client teams for their work on this throughout the year đ Keep…
The ethereum.org Translation Program has been live for over two years, and we are excited to share a couple of milestones we have hit since its inception, as well as some of our plans for the future. Since we launched the initiative in 2019, over 2,000 community members have contributed, translating a total of 2.8 million words so far! Thanks to all this activity, ethereum.org is now available in 37 different languages. While English continues to be the primary language viewed on the site (88% of total page views), traffic to translated pages is growing as well and has more…
The Altair beacon chain upgrade is ready to be activated on the Ethereum mainnet. The upgrade will go live at epoch 74240 (Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC). Client Versions In order to be compatible with the Altair upgrade, beacon node operators must update the client version that they run. If you run a validator, you must upgrade to continue to follow the mainnet beacon chain. Failure to do so will result in downtime penalties. The versions listed below are support the mainnet Altair upgrade. EDIT: The following table has been edited to reference the latest Altair client releases prior to…
Earlier this year, the Rayonism hackathon kicked off to protoype the architecture for Ethereum’s transition to proof of stake. The transition, often refered to as The Merge, will keep the existing beacon chain (eth2) and execution layer (eth1) clients, and “merge” both chains by making the beacon chain drive the execution layer’s consensus. This approach is the most recent in a series of iterations to the Ethereum roadmap (more on that here). While Rayonism proved that this was a sound architecture, there were still several things left to design, implement and test, including the actual proof of work (PoW) to…
The collaboration aims to merge NFTs with institutional funds. Sharpâs Solana-based treasury network will enhance cross-chain interactions and capital efficiency. PENGU has gained more than 2% after the announcement. NFT brand Pudgy Penguins has entered a strategic alliance with publicly listed Sharps Technology to explore how to integrate non-fungible tokens into on-chain treasury strategies. The development is crucial as it marks a significant move in Pudgy Penguinâs growth beyond Web3. đ¨NEW: @pudgypenguins has partnered with Nasdaq-listed Sharps Technology to integrate its $400M+ @Solana-based digital asset treasury with the Pudgy brand. The collaboration aims to connect NFT culture with institutional finance…
The Funding Coordination team is excited to announce a joint initiative with Keyring Network that introduces a new approach to impact funding in the Ethereum ecosystem. Directly support privacy-focused developers Keyringâs zkVerified permissioned vaults on mainnet provide compliant and privacy-preserving access to DeFi lending markets. For the first two months, all protocol fees from Keyringâs zkVerified vaults will go to the legal defense funds of Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, the Tornado Cash developers currently on trial for publishing open-source code. This model ensures that the first users of a vault directly support the legal protection of privacy-focused developers. By…