Author: Michael Johnson

Our goal on the grants team is to be faithful stewards of Ethereum community resources. As part of the Ethereum Foundation’s ongoing effort to diffuse power throughout our community, we give grants that we believe will return the highest impact on the Ethereum ecosystem over the long-term. What is the scope of EF grants? Open source! Funding is only for future work Avoid playing favorites.  We try not to advantage one team over others Avoid grants at the application layer, though we do believe that projects and teams working at the application layer should apply when they are building open…

We’re happy to announce that the presentation videos from Devcon4 are now available for viewing! As promised, we recorded sessions from the following rooms: Spectrum (Main Stage), Prism (Side Stage), Radiant Orchid (Breakout Room), and Ultra Violet (Breakout Room). This year you have two viewing options: SlidesLive and YouTube. SlidesLive SlidesLive allows you to view the talks with synchronized slides that are adjustable in size. You can view the SlidesLive versions of the talks here. You can look up talks by speaker name by using this link. YouTube See the Ethereum Foundation Devcon4 playlists on YouTube below: Day 0 (October…

At Devcon 4, Aya Miyaguchi gave a talk about the Ethereum Foundation’s values, about Ethereum as being representative of hope for an open future, and about a better world that we can build by applying this philosophy and technology. Our community reflects this effort as many embrace the spirit of Kaizen, or continuous change for the better, through their work each day. As a non-profit organization, the Ethereum Foundation has a vision that we’ve outlined and tried to embody through our values, mission and work, but we know that the developers behind dApps built on Ethereum are the ones who…

The Ethereum Foundation is thrilled to announce a scalability, usability and security grant of five million dollars (USD) to Parity Technologies. For several years, Parity Technologies has been an invaluable member of the Ethereum ecosystem for their leadership in core development efforts, their Parity Ethereum client and more. Their work has continued at a blazing pace. At Devcon4 in Prague, Parity team members presented their plans to develop a Serenity implementation, exampling an exciting direction for the years ahead. By all metrics, Parity is a major technical contributor to the Ethereum project, and they’ve notably done so as a self-financed…

NOTE: DUE TO A SECURITY VULNERABILITY WE ARE POSTPONING CONSTANTINOPLE. PLEASE DISREGARD THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS BLOG POST. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION. The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 7,080,000, which is predicted to occur on Wednesday, January 16, 2019. The exact date is subject to change depending on block times between now and then and could be activated 1-2 days before or after. A countdown timer can be seen at https://amberdata.io/blocks/7080000. You can monitor the network upgrade in real time at http://forkmon.ethdevops.io/. What is Constantinople? Constantinople is the name given to this network…

The Ethereum Core Developers and the Ethereum Security Community were made aware of the potential Constantinople-related issues identified by ChainSecurity on January 15, 2019. We are investigating any potential vulnerabilities and will follow with updates in this blog post and across social media channels. Out of an abundance of caution, key stakeholders around the Ethereum community have determined that the best course of action will be to delay the planned Constantinople fork that would have occurred at block 7,080,000 on January 16, 2019. This will require anyone running a node (node operators, exchanges, miners, wallet services, etc…) to update to…

The Ethereum Foundation Grants Program is an ongoing and continually improving experiment into how the EF can best invest the Ethereum community’s resources for the highest long-term impact on the Ethereum ecosystem. When the Grants Program began in early 2018, the core focus was on supporting scalability efforts. This focus later expanded to include security, usability, privacy, and education. In 2019, we are returning to our core focus to support critical Eth2.0 and layer 2 scaling efforts. However, we remain open to any grant proposal which addresses urgent, important and unique improvements which further the Ethereum vision. With these priorities…

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 7,280,000, which is predicted to occur on Thursday, February 28, 2019. The exact date is subject to change depending on block times between now and then and could be activated 1-2 days before or after. A countdown timer can be seen at https://amberdata.io/blocks/7280000. You can monitor the network upgrade in real time at http://forkmon.ethdevops.io/. What is Constantinople and St. Petersburg? Constantinople and St. Petersburg are the names given to this network upgrade. Previous network upgrades have been given other names such as Spurious Dragon and Byzantium. The reason…

Solidity Optimizer and ABIEncoderV2 Bug Announcement Through the Ethereum bug bounty program, we received a report about a flaw within the new experimental ABI encoder (referred to as ABIEncoderV2). Upon investigation, it was found that the component suffers from a few different variations of the same type. The first part of this announcement explains this bug in detail. The new ABI encoder is still marked as experimental, but we nevertheless think that this deserves a prominent announcement since it is already used on mainnet. Additionally, two low-impact bugs in the optimizer have been identified over the past two weeks, one…

Hello, world! Welcome to the new ethereum.org. This is the beginning of the ethereum.org relaunch, not the end. As explained in more detail below, the new website is intentionally a work in progress. It’s launching as an experiment, intended to grow and iterate in public as it is improved by the community — just like Ethereum. Three core principles As we’ve progressed towards a re-launch of ethereum.org, we’ve been guided by three core principles: 1. Ethereum.org is a portal to community-built resources One of Ethereum’s greatest strengths is its massive decentralized community. Over the past few years, the community has…