Announcing the New Foundation Board and Executive Director
After an intensive recruitment period, the Ethereum Foundation has selected an Executive Director and named three members to the Board of Directors. This is a new organizational structure, which will…
Read More »Ethereum Launches
A few minutes ago, many of you generated and loaded the Ethereum Genesis block, marking the inception of Frontier, the first Live release of the Ethereum project. The Dev team…
Read More »Introducing Casper “the Friendly Ghost”
Hi everyone – Vlad here. I’ve been working on the analysis and specification of “proof-of-stake” blockchain architecture since September 2014. While Vitalik and I haven’t agreed on all of the…
Read More »Ethereum Protocol Update 1
Here comes the first Frontier patch, and this is a big one! Before you go further, if your keys date back from Go 1.0 rc or C++ 0.9.36, note that…
Read More »The Thawing Frontier
After a smooth launch, please find a few updates of note below. These probably will be of interest only to the more advanced users amongst you – if you’re not…
Read More »On Public and Private Blockchains
Over the last year the concept of “private blockchains” has become very popular in the broader blockchain technology discussion. Essentially, instead of having a fully public and uncontrolled network and…
Read More »Security Alert 1 [windows+alethzero]
This affects users of Alethzero GUI client on Windows. Users of eth CLI client or not on the Windows platform are unlikely to be affected but should take action detailed…
Read More »KZG Ceremony Grant Round
The Protocol Support team is organizing a grant round to support the upcoming Ethereum KZG Ceremony. The KZG Ceremony is a coordinated public ritual that will provide a cryptographic foundation…
Read More »Chain Reorganisation Depth Expectations
This following shows our current and planned expectations concerning maximum likely chain-reorganisation depth. We would not consider transactions within this depth to have an exceptionally high chance of being permanent….
Read More »An Analysis of the First 100000 Blocks
After a successful launch, Frontier passed it’s 100000th block earlier this week. Here are some interesting stats from these first blocks. The first 50 block times (in seconds): Right after…
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