eth2 quick update no. 19

Contract deployment Genesis deposits Bootstrap consensus tl;dr v1.0 specs released πŸš€ v1.0 spec release Today, we released v1.0 of the eth2 specs, including the mainnet deposit contract address — 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa. eth2 will…

Introducing the new ethereum.org developer portal

Hey Ethereum community! We last spoke August 5 – how you been? We’re here to talk about something fresh we’ve shipped. Maybe you’ve already noticed, but we’ve got a new Developers section. For a long time, this content was a wall of link…

eth2 quick update no. 18

Oh you, Spadina, Finally, finality Hello and farewell tl;dr A quick Spadina postmortem New testnet: Zinken. Launchpad is live; Genesis deposits due in one week! Spadina Postmortem The Spadina testnet dress rehearsal launched this past Tuesday. Alth…

eth2 quick update no. 17

πŸ“£ Last chance to practice genesis before mainnet πŸ“£ tl;dr Spadina Launchpad is live. Spadina genesis in 7 days! Deposit CLI audit completed by Trail of Bits EIP 2982: Serenity Phase 0 released πŸš€ Announcing Spadina Launchpad As of today, the Spadina …

eth2 quick update no. 16

Can’t travel these days Miss the people, not the planes Spadina, not Spain tl;dr Spadina (deposit and genesis dress rehearsal) testnet coming up Medalla Data Challenge in progress RFP for audit of blst super fast BLS12-381 signature library πŸ’₯ Spadin…

Q2 Allocation Update

Hello again! We’re back to share the grants that went out over the second quarter of 2020 – but first, some ESP updates from the last few months: We’re writing about grants today, but grants are not the only kind of support ESP can offer! We recently …

eth2 quick update no. 15

Farmer minds his crops An optimistic outlook The fields are aflame tl;dr Medalla chugging along smoothly Client diversity is a must eth1+eth2 (Phase 1.5 aka The Merge) end-to-end demo Testing and audits continue as we approach Phase 0 launch Medal…

The Stateless Tech Tree: reGenesis Edition

This week we’re revising the Tech Tree to reflect some new major milestones to Ethereum 1.x R&D that are not quite a complete realization of Stateless Ethereum, but much more reasonably attainable in the mid-term. The most significant addition to the t…

ESP: Beyond Grants

Since transitioning into the Ecosystem Support Program from EF Grants, we’ve talked about defining β€œsupport” more comprehensively, thinking beyond simple grant funding. But what does a more comprehensive definition of support actually mean? In practic…

Announcing Devcon Improvement Proposals (DIPs)

Today, we (the Devcon organizing team) are excited to make public a new way to get involved in next year’s event, and one that should make Devcon an experience that better represents Ethereum as a whole. Devcon Improvement Proposals (DIPs) are a new t…

Development update #4 – ethereum.org

Hey Ethereum community! It’s been a few months since our last update so it’s about time we let you know what’s been happening over at ethereum.org. First up, we’re now using Gatsby !The Gatsby logo Under the hood at ethereum.org we’ve switched from …

eth2 quick update no. 14

All eyes on Medalla testnet — genesis in less than 24 hours πŸ‘€ tl;dr Medalla testnet launches August 4th at 1pm UTC New multi-client attacknet is up with new challenges and larger bounties Medalla testnet launches tomorrow πŸ… The minimum validator d…

Ethereum turns 5 πŸŽ‚

Five years ago today, Ethereum’s genesis block marked the official network launch. Today, most members of the community spend their time thinking about all of the work that’s left to be done, but it’s also important to recognize on this fifth annivers…

Ethereum.org Translation Program: Milestone and Updates

Your browser does not support the video tag. Today we’re excited to celebrate a huge milestone – Ethereum.org now supports 30 languages! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ Since we launched the Website Translation Program seven months ago, we’ve se…

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, say, a street-level view, things get complicated …

eth2 validator launchpad πŸš€

After months of hard work from the eth2 research team, along with Consensys and DeepWork Studio, we’re happy to announce the release of the eth2 validator launchpad (testnet version). We’re releasing it now so that you can keep track of, and make depo…

eth2 quick update no. 13

Testnets, testnets, testnets! tl;dr Medalla multi-client testnet launch date set πŸš€ Initial beta attacknets are up. Calling all whitehats πŸ‘©β€πŸ³ Exciting progress on the eth1+eth2 merger πŸ‘Š Medalla testnet Following the excellent stability of Altona and…

Ask about Geth: Snapshot acceleration

\This is part #1 of a series where anyone can ask questions about Geth and I’ll attempt to answer the highest voted one each week with a mini writeup. This week’s highest voted question was: Could you share how the flat db structure is different from t…