Ethereum

Ethereum is not meant to be a platform to build esoteric smart contract applications that require a STEM degree to understand, but it aims to … Read more

The DAO, though not a product developed by the Ethereum Foundation, has been a hot topic as of late, both internally in the organisation as … Read more

We would like to congratulate the Ethereum community on a successfully completed hard fork. Block 1920000 contained the execution of an irregular state change which … Read more

The DAO soft-fork attempt was difficult. Not only did it turn out that we underestimated the side effects on the consensus protocol (i.e. DoS vulnerability), … Read more

The foundation has committed to support the community consensus on the admittedly difficult hard fork decision. Seeing the results of various metrics, including carbonvote, dapp … Read more

The primary expense that must be paid by a blockchain is that of security. The blockchain must pay miners or validators to economically participate in … Read more

I’m joining Ethereum as a formal verification engineer. My reasoning: formal verification makes sense as a profession only in a rare situation where the verification … Read more

Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here), thereby creating blocks that take … Read more

During the last couple of weeks, the Ethereum network has been the target of a sustained attack. The attacker(s) have been very crafty in locating … Read more

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2463000, which will likely occur between 12:00 and 13:00 UTC on Tuesday, October … Read more