Author: Michael Johnson
The following is an update from Ethereum Foundation Fellow Marcus AM. Hola 👋, my name is Marcus and I’m a researcher and builder from Guatemala, and an EF Fellow. An optimist at heart, I’m driven by leveraging social, cultural and technological innovation to build better societies – a conviction I’ve held from a young age. Guatemala: A Country of Challenging Opportunities As a child, I would spend my weekends accompanying my father to visit many of Guatemala’s most desolate townships. At the time, he ran a non-profit whose mission was to deliver last-mile healthcare and establish educational programs. The community…
With The Merge now firmly behind us, protocol developers have been making progress across a (record?) number of areas over the past few months. Withdrawals, danksharding, EOF, verkle tries, history expiry, SSZ and more have all seen significant progress recently! In order to help move each of these threads forward, and to run through one more series of Shapella stress tests, client team members gathered in person for a week-long interop event in Austria: Edelweiss 🏔️ Unlike Amphora, which had a singular focus on The Merge, this event had two major tracks, focused on the Shapella and ProtoDanksharding network upgrades…
The Privacy & Scaling Explorations team is excited to announce the winners of the Layer 2 Community Grants 2022. The Layer 2 Community Grants round started on October 24th, 2022 and was open for 6 weeks. In total we received 130+ proposals and thank each project for taking the time to apply. The wishlist compiled sought applications from all areas including Layer 2 explorers, cryptography, and education. This chart shows percentage of initial applicants by category: Due to the high quality of proposals, we raised the budget from an initial 750k USD to a total of 948k USD. The awarded…
Withdrawals are imminent. tl;dr Shanghai+Capella (aka Shapella) is on the horizon. Stakers, node operators, infrastructure providers — pay attention and test!The Academic Grants Round is live! Applications are due by February 27, 2023 Shapella on the horizon 🌅 After much testing and development, the Shanghai+Capella (Shapella) mainnet upgrade is moving into the final pre-launch sequence — public testnets! The Zhejiang testnet is live and available for stakers and users to test Shapella today. And, the first of the long-standing public testnets — Sepolia — is scheduled to go through the upgrade on February 28th. Shapella contains many features, but most…
Withdrawals are coming! The Shapella network upgrade will activate on the Sepolia network at epoch 56832, scheduled for 4:04:48 AM UTC on Feb. 28, 2023Stakers & node operators should read this post as well as the Withdrawals FAQThe Zhejiang testnet can be used to test Shapella functionality prior to the Sepolia upgrade After months of testing and an ephemeral devnet launch, the Shanghai/Capella (a.k.a. Shapella) network upgrade is now scheduled for deployment on Sepolia. This upgrade follows The Merge and enables validators to withdraw their stake from the Beacon Chain back to the execution layer. It also introduces new functionality…
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Last year, after a three-year-long pause, we emerged from the pandemic stronger than before and reunited in Bogotá for the largest and some would say, “best Devcon yet.” Since then, we were frequently asked “wen Devcon 7?” Well, today, we have some news! 😃 🎉 🥁 When is Devcon 7!? 🥁 We couldn’t be more excited to announce that Devcon 7 will be coming to Southeast Asia in 2024! 🎊 Before you ask if we got our years right, we’ll let you know why we are scheduling Devcon 7 for 2024. We thought long and hard about this. Here’s why:…
Withdrawals are coming! The Shapella network upgrade will activate on the Goerli network at epoch 162304, scheduled for 10:25:36 PM UTC on Mar. 14, 2023Stakers & node operators should read this post as well as the Withdrawals FAQThe Zhejiang testnet can be used to test Shapella functionality prior to the Goerli upgradeA Shapella Community Call is scheduled for 15:00 UTC on Mar. 13, 2023You can now sign up to receive emails for these upgrade announcements. Scroll to the bottom of the page to do so 📩 After a smooth Sepolia transition, the Shapella upgrade is now scheduled for the Goerli…
Ethereum is a living entity, distributed across time and space, accessible through our screens and communication devices. What gives it life are the myriad human relationships that have become intertwined with the roots, branches, and leaves of the Ethereum state tree. This single tree encodes immense value, digital property, and dapp utility — not an insignificant slice of human activity. But the humans who currently give Ethereum life do not represent all humans — many gaps across cultures, nationalities, and class must be bridged. The use cases and novel solutions that have so far been developed and advertised and touted…
Withdrawals are coming! The Shapella network upgrade will activate on the Ethereum network at epoch 194048, scheduled for 22:27:35 UTC on Apr. 12, 2023Stakers & node operators should read this post as well as the Withdrawals FAQFrom now until April 5th, the Ethereum Bug Bounty rewards have been doubled for Shapella vulnerabilitiesYou can now sign up to receive emails for these upgrade announcements. Scroll to the bottom of the page to do so 📩 After a smooth Goerli transition, client teams have scheduled the Shapella upgrade for mainnet activation. Consensus was quickly reached on an April 12th date during the…