Devconnect: 18-25 April 2022 in Amsterdam
In our last post, we outlined Devconnect as a week-long gathering that will feature independent Ethereum events, which aim to bring the Ethereum community together in smaller groups to talk,…
Read More »Finalized no. 33
the Ethereum consensus-layer – tl;dr Merge progress – minor spec updates, engineering full steam ahead 🚂 No progress in client diversity. Be selfish, run a minority client! Merge update First…
Read More »Grantee Roundup: December 2021
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 a couple of projects that are…
Read More »The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?
Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol to scale to meet global demand while improving security and decentralization. Beyond protocol development, a critical shift…
Read More »EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Roundup
2021 Pt. 3 – We all have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season, from the first birthday of the beacon chain, to the successful upgrades over the…
Read More »Announcing the Kintsugi Merge Testnet
Since returning from the Amphora merge workshop, client teams have been hard at work implementing the latest versions of merge specifications and testing them on devnets. After four ephemeral devnets,…
Read More »Announcing the Client Incentive Program
A diverse set of clients is key to the Ethereum network’s health and decentralization. Diversity ensures that innovation continues at the base layer of the protocol, that the network is…
Read More »An update on Devcon 6, and something new…
Big things are happening in 2022 – It’s been a little while, and we’ve got some news. 👋 It’s happening! 👋 After being cooped up for the last years, it’s…
Read More »Spotlight on Kenya: Microinsurance for Every Farmer
In Sub-Saharan Africa, only 3% of 48 million smallholder farmers are insured. Owning 1 acre of land and earning approximately $1.40 per person per day characterize a smallholder farmer. Smallholder…
Read More »Verkle tree structure
A Verkle tree is a commitment scheme that works similar to a Merkle tree, but has much smaller witnesses. It works by replacing the hashes in a Merkle tree with…
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