Ethereum.org Blog Archive
Blog Archive
December 2013
Bootstrapping A Decentralized Autonomous Corporation: Part I
Bootstrapping An Autonomous Decentralized Corporation, Part 2: Interacting With the World
Bootstrapping a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation, Part 3: Identity Corp
January 2014
Slasher: A Punitive Proof-of-Stake Algorithm
Conference, Alpha Testnet and Ether Pre-sale Updates
February 2014
On Transaction Fees, And The Fallacy of Market-Based Solutions
Introducing Ethereum Script 2.0
More Thoughts on Scripting and Future-Compatibility
Why Not Just Use X? An Instructive Example from Bitcoin
Important Statement regarding the Ether pre-sale
Ethereum Scalability and Decentralization Updates
DAOs Are Not Scary, Part 1: Self-Enforcing Contracts And Factum Law
March 2014
DAOs Are Not Scary, Part 2: Reducing Barriers
The Latest EVM: “Ethereum Is A Trust-Free Closure System”
SchellingCoin: A Minimal-Trust Universal Data Feed
April 2014
Pythereum and Serpent Programming Guide
The Issuance Model in Ethereum
Decentralized Protocol Monetization and Forks
May 2014
Serpent upgrades: More Fun Stuff
DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide
What is Ethereum? Project, Platform, Fuel, Stack.
The Xbox and Ethereum’s Dual Mandate
Long-Range Attacks: The Serious Problem With Adaptive Proof of Work
On Long-Term Cryptocurrency Distribution Models
What If Ethereum Lived on a Treap? Or, Blockchains Charging Rent
June 2014
Advanced Contract Programming Example: SchellingCoin
July 2014
Background on the mechanics of the ether pre-sale
the ethereum project: learning to dream with open minds
Ether Purchase Troubleshooting
August 2014
Programming Society with Asm: Gavin Wood at Assembly 2014
Ether Sale: A Statistical Overview
Announcement on planned withdrawal from exodus
Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: A Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer
building the decentralized web 3.0
State of Ethereum: August Edition
September 2014
Software and Bounded Rationality
Scalability, Part 1: Building on Top
October 2014
Slasher Ghost, and Other Developments in Proof of Stake
Gav’s ÐΞV Update I: Where Ethereum’s at
Scalability, Part 2: Hypercubes
An Information-Theoretic Account of Secure Brainwallets
November 2014
Ethereum Community and Adoption Update – Week 1
The Search for a Stable Cryptocurrency
Scalability, Part 3: On Metacoin History and Multichain
On Bitcoin Maximalism, and Currency and Platform Network Effects
Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity
December 2014
From inside Ethereum ÐΞVhub Berlin
Ethereum ÐΞV: What are we doing?
A call to all the bug bounty hunters out there…
Secret Sharing DAOs: The Other Crypto 2.0
January 2015
Light Clients and Proof of Stake
February 2015
The Subjectivity / Exploitability Tradeoff
March 2015
The Ethereum Development Process
Mihai’s Ethereum Project Update. The First Year.
Jutta’s update on bug bounty program and security audit
Ethereum Builders: A Proposed Experiment
April 2015
Ethereum’s unexpected future direction
Blockchain Scalability: Chain-Fibers Redux
Ethereum Builders: Tapping Into The Collaborative Potential
Ethereum Foundation is hiring an Executive Director
Ethereum Foundation Open Call re: Board Selection
Visions, Part 1: The Value of Blockchain Technology
Visions, Part 2: The Problem of Trust
May 2015
Announcing eπ: Ethereum on Raspberry Pi Programme
The Business Imperative Behind the Ethereum Vision
June 2015
Ethereum messaging for the masses (including fathers) – via infographic
July 2015
How do you know Ethereum is secure?
Frontier is coming – what to expect, and how to prepare
Announcing the New Foundation Board and Executive Director
August 2015
Introducing Casper “the Friendly Ghost”
On Public and Private Blockchains
Security Alert 1 windows+alethzero
Chain Reorganisation Depth Expectations
An Analysis of the First 100000 Blocks
Security alert consensus issue
Security Advisory Insecurely configured geth can make funds remotely accessible
September 2015
devcon one postponed until further notice
Ethereum Wallet – Developer Preview
October 2015
Security Advisory eth (cpp-ethereum) potentially vulnerable if running with UPnP enabled
Ethereum Dev Update 2015 / Week 41
Vitalik’s Research and Ecosystem Update
Nick Szabo Confirmed as Keynote Speaker of Ethereum’s DEVCON1
Microsoft to Sponsor Ethereum’s DEVCON1
November 2015
Ethereum Dev Update 2015 / Week 44
Stateful Turing-Complete Policies
Applications of Security Deposits and Prediction Markets You Might Not Have Thought About
December 2015
Ethereum in practice part 1: how to build your own cryptocurrency without touching a line of code
Ethereum in practice part 2: how to build a better democracy in under a 100 lines of code
Ethereum in practice part 3: how to build your own transparent bank on the blockchain
Understanding Serenity, Part I: Abstraction
Understanding Serenity, Part 2: Casper
January 2016
Ethereum Foundation Internal Update
ÐΞVgrants Update and New Funding
February 2016
Ethereum DEV Update: C++ Roadmap
BTC Relay included in Ethereum Bounty Program
From Smart Contracts to Courts with not so Smart Judges
March 2016
An Open Source Mining Pool Bounty and DEVgrant
Solidity Available in Visual Studio
April 2016
May 2016
C++ DEV Update: Announcing Remix
Security Alert – Geth suffers from a very low probable DoS attack vector – Update immediately
Security Alert – cpp-ethereum keeps accounts unlocked
June 2016
Security Alert – cpp-ethereum’s account unlocking problem not yet fixed Now fixed
CRITICAL UPDATE Re: DAO Vulnerability
Thinking About Smart Contract Security
Security Alert – Smart Contract Wallets created in frontier are vulnerable to phishing attacks
DAO Wars: Your voice on the soft-fork dilemma
Security Alert – DoS Vulnerability in the Soft Fork
July 2016
How to build server less applications for Mist
Hive: How we strived for a clean fork
On Inflation, Transaction Fees and Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy
September 2016
Security alert – All geth nodes crash due to an out of memory bug
The Ethereum network is currently undergoing a DoS attack
Transaction spam attack: Next Steps
October 2016
Announcement of imminent hard fork for EIP150 gas cost changes
FAQ: Upcoming Ethereum Hard Fork
Security Alert – Mist can be vulnerable when navigating to malicious DApps
Uncle Rate and Transaction Fee Analysis
November 2016
Security Alert – Solidity – Variables can be overwritten in storage
Analysis of Storage Corruption Bug
Hard Fork No. 4: Spurious Dragon
Security alert 11/24/2016: Consensus bug in geth v1.4.19 and v1.5.2
December 2016
The History of Casper — Chapter 1
The History of Casper – Chapter 2
Swarm alpha public pilot and the basics of Swarm
Security alert 12/19/2016: Ethereum.org Forums Database Compromised
January 2017
Introduction of the Light Client for DApp developers
An Update on Integrating Zcash on Ethereum (ZoE)
February 2017
Ethereum R&D Roundup: Valentine’s Day Edition
March 2017
April 2017
Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1 (Boring Edition)
May 2017
July 2017
August 2017
Statement Objecting To EME as a W3C Recommendation
September 2017
October 2017
November 2017
December 2017
Security alert — Chromium vulnerability affecting Mist Browser Beta
January 2018
Ethereum scalability research and development subsidy programs
February 2018
March 2018
Announcing Beneficiaries of the Ethereum Foundation Grants
April 2018
Announcing World Trade Francs: The Official Ethereum Stablecoin
May 2018
Announcing May 2018 Cohort of EF Grants
June 2018
Announcing Swarm Proof-of-Concept Release 3
July 2018
An Update on Devcon4 Ticket Allocations & Sales
Devcon4 Application Deadlines Coming Soon
Answers to your top 3 Devcon4 questions
Devcon4 Call for Participation!
August 2018
Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave III
September 2018
October 2018
Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave IV
Announcing Our dc⟠ıv Sponsors and Supporters!
How the Ethereum Foundation grants program makes decisions
December 2018
Devcon4 Videos and Pictures Released!
Call for Submissions! DApps Solving Real-World Issues
January 2019
Announcing an Ethereum Foundation Grant to Parity Technologies
Ethereum Constantinople Upgrade Announcement
Security Alert: Ethereum Constantinople Postponement
February 2019
Ethereum Foundation Grants Program Wave 5
Ethereum Constantinople/St. Petersburg Upgrade Announcement
March 2019
Solidity Optimizer and ABIEncoderV2 Bug
April 2019
May 2019
Ethereum Foundation Spring 2019 Update
June 2019
Devcon in Osaka: Applications now open!
EF-Supported Teams: Development Report
July 2019
On Wave 1 and Devcon Ticketing
Devcon updates: Announcing Wave 2, a New Application window, and more!
August 2019
Devcon Tickets: Wave 3 and beyond
Translating Ethereum for our Global Community
Announcing the Devcon Scholars Program
Announcing Ethereum Foundation and Co-Funded Grants
September 2019
Live: Devcon5 Final Ticket Appeals
Devcon On-Chain Raffle & Auction Participants