Bitcoin & Crypto News

The KZG Ceremony was the largest multi-party computation of its kind (by number of participants). Through an open, accessible process, it produced a secure cryptographic foundation for EIP-4844. Learn more about how the Ceremony worked in Carl Beekhuizen’s Devcon talk:… Continue Reading →

The blobs are coming: Dencun will go live on Goerli at 6:32 UTC on January 17, 2024. Dencun will be Goerli’s last upgrade before core teams stop supporting it. More on this in a previous post. Assuming the Goerli upgrade… Continue Reading →

Before we wrap up the year, we’d like to showcase the fantastic projects that were funded in the previous quarter. Dive into the details below to learn more about the Q3 grantees and their work!…

The Run A Node Grants Round wanted to reach different users exploring blockchain, learning, community efforts, and research purposes. The aim of this round was to encourage the exploration of a diverse range of ideas for operating nodes beyond running… Continue Reading →

In the coming months, Goerli, Ethereum’s first multi-client testnet, will stop being supported by client and EF testing teams. The Dencun network upgrade will be the last one implemented on the network. Either three months after the Goerli Dencun activation,… Continue Reading →

Decades from now, there will be many stories to tell about the early days of Ethereum. We will remenisce about how a peculiar and powerful technology began to change the landscape of trust on the internet. Some will remember being… Continue Reading →

Devconnect, the week-long gathering of the Ethereum ecosystem and community, concluded its second edition in Istanbul. The week saw over 3,500 participants from diverse backgrounds come together from November 13-19 at the Devconnect Cowork in the Istanbul Congress Center, and… Continue Reading →

Crisis is a cruel teacher. It can draw us together in our shared fragility, but paradoxically it can also distance us from our shared humanity. In times of great crisis, the institutions and structures of society that are supposed to… Continue Reading →

Last week, we posted an advisory update on recent events and potential travel considerations related to Devconnect. Safety is our first and primary consideration now, and we are closely monitoring the situation, including working closely with local security providers, law… Continue Reading →

Last week, we posted an advisory update on recent events and potential travel considerations related to Devconnect. Safety is our first and primary consideration now, and we are closely monitoring the situation, including working closely with local security providers, law… Continue Reading →

For EIP-4844, Ethereum clients need the ability to compute and verify KZG commitments. Rather than each client rolling their own crypto, researchers and developers came together to write c-kzg-4844, a relatively small C library with bindings for higher-level languages. The… Continue Reading →

Over the last weeks, we have been closely monitoring the security and safety in Istanbul. In particular, we have been focused on how events in Israel and the Gaza Strip may impact attendee safety. We try to assess risk whenever… Continue Reading →

> Just as a side note, as I argued before, the DAO collapse and the ensuing hard fork was a natural experiment that delivered a triumph to Williamsonian contracting and a decisive blow to Hartian contracting, ironically just months before… Continue Reading →

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> What I find so intriguing about crypto is that it offers commitment devices that are built from the viewpoint of the action (the economic transaction), and not from the viewpoint of the actor (the economic agent). This seems interesting, but… Continue Reading →

Ethereum.org is an educational website and portal to Ethereum – for many people, it is their first contact with Ethereum, the place where they find their first wallet or dapp to use, and their go-to resource to start learning or… Continue Reading →

Greetings, Ethereum builders and enthusiasts! Devconnect Istanbul is just around the corner, with only two months to go! We’re here to remind you why we’re so excited about this event and to share some important updates and information. Don’t forget… Continue Reading →

Usually in economics the word “commitment” refers to promises that are *forward-facing*, something like “I put myself in a position such that either I later do X or I lose $YYY”. This is interesting because I actually see blockchains as… Continue Reading →

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Regarding Bitcoin and Ethereum dev and client decentralization, I think those four graphs miss two points: Many of the so-called “alternative Bitcoin clients” are in fact forks of the same codebase as Bitcoin Core, whereas all Ethereum implementations have fully separate… Continue Reading →