Thinking About Smart Contract Security
Over the last day with the community’s help we have crowdsourced a list of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the DAO as…
Read More »DAO Wars: Your voice on the soft-fork dilemma
The last week was quite hectic for all of us in the Ethereum ecosystem. The DAO has shown us that it takes much more effort to write smart contracts than…
Read More »Introduction of the Light Client for DApp developers
The first version of the Light Ethereum Subprotocol (LES/1) and its implementation in Geth are still in an experimental stage, but they are expected to reach a more mature state…
Read More »Roundup Q2
Thanks to all the developers and team leads who contributed to the sections on their projects In the last month and a half, the Ethereum network went through a rapid…
Read More »Announcing Beneficiaries of the Ethereum Foundation Grants
We’re excited to share the results of the first wave of grants from the Ethereum Foundation. As a reminder, the Ethereum project seeks to support useful dapps and smart contracts…
Read More »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,…
Read More »The Reality of ETH Staking: Ethereum Proof of Stake Is a Regressive Capital Tax
Ethereum recently merged its original chain with a new Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chain. The PoS blockchain was fashioned after the original chain began recording massive costs and scalability problems. Developers intended…
Read More »Ethereum Validator Count Surge to over 435,000 after the Merge
The number of Ethereum validators has sharply increased to over 435,000 less than two weeks after the smart contracting platform Merged.
Read More »Coinbase Cloud Launches Node, a Web3 Infrastructure for Devs
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase’s blockchain infrastructure platform Coinbase Cloud has officially rolled out a Web3 platform for blockchain developers, allowing users to build new decentralized applications (dApps) for free. Unveiling Node…
Read More »Ethereum Merge makes network more vulnerable to attack — Security expert
The security expert said that while PoS isn’t “theoretically” as secure as PoW, he admits it still has “sufficient practical security.”
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