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            <title><![CDATA[Checkpoint #9: Apr 2026]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/04/10/checkpoint-9</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum's All Core Developer calls can be a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for periodic high-level updates, depending on what's happening in core development. See the previous update here.  !image...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How L1 and L2s can build the strongest possible Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/03/23/l1-l2-ethereum</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[*The North Star of the Platform team is for Ethereum to scale as a cohesive system and enable confident adoption by all users. This post is intended to share our perspective on the L1 \ L2 relationship, the roles of each layer, and how we (as an ecosystem) are leveraging...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Promise of Ethereum: Introducing the EF Mandate]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/03/13/ef-mandate</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dearest Friends,  Today we are publishing the EF Mandate, a document that serves as part constitution, part manifesto, and part guide for the Ethereum Foundation.  It is written primarily for the EF itself: to be clear about what we are here to do, the principles by which we...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[This Is Fine (Until the Grant Runs Out)]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/27/project-odin</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The commons called. It wants a runway.  Every so often, in the blockchain world’s usual cycle of funding scares, a team maintaining a widely used open source public good declares mayday. Libp2p is a core infrastructure stack that powers multiple Ethereum clients (among others) and a large part of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Treasury Staking Initiative]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/24/staking</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury, in line with its Treasury Policy announced last year.  Approximately 70,000 ETH is being staked with rewards directed back to the EF treasury....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation's Commitment to DeFi]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/23/commitment-to-defi</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DeFi isn't a speculative bet on the future. It's the inevitable evolution of finance, driven by a fundamental truth: financial autonomy is a right, not a privilege. And it's been a critical driver of Ethereum's growth and adoption.  We want to see DeFi thrive, but we're opinionated about what...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Protocol Priorities Update for 2026]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/18/protocol-priorities-update-2026</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We introduced Protocol last June which organized our work around three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX. A lot has happened since then! In this post, we want to share what we accomplished last year, how our thinking has evolved, and where Protocol is headed in 2026....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Platform Team at EF]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/17/platform</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Platform is a new team inside the EF with one goal:  Deliver the strongest possible Ethereum platform, where L1 and L2s are best positioned to support users, apps, and all organizations building on Ethereum. This requires improving the L1 \ L2 relationship, so that we grow as a mutually...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Studies 2026]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/17/ethereum-protocol-studies-26</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr: Ethereum Protocol Studies returns for 2026 with new content tracks in cryptography, lean consensus and zkEVM, plus a new self-paced learning platform. The program kicks off February 23rd. Visit epf.wiki to get started.  Ethereum Protocol Studies (EPS) is back. Since launching as a 10-week study group ahead of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Executive Leadership Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/13/leadership-update</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today, we are announcing a transition in the executive leadership team at the Ethereum Foundation. After extensive contributions to the Foundation’s mission and operations, Tomasz Stańczak has decided to step down from his role as Co-Executive Director. The Foundation’s Board has appointed Bastian Aue to serve as interim Co-Executive Director,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An update from Tomasz]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/13/tomasz-update</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  I am stepping down from my co-ED role at the EF at the end of February 2026. Bastian Aue is taking over the co-ED role alongside Hsiao-Wei. The future is bright for builders, for Ethereum, for the EF, and for me....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing the EF Academic Secretariat 2026 PhD Fellowship]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/05/phd-fellowship</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The EF's Academic Secretariat team is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural PhD Fellowship Program, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related academic research, by supporting Ethereum-related academic work led by PhD students....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trillion Dollar Security Day at Devconnect]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/03/1ts-day-devconnect-ba</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[During Devconnect Buenos Aires, the Ethereum Foundation and Secureum TrustX brought together Ethereum security practitioners for Trillion Dollar Security Day, a focused event exploring what it would take to securely support a trillion-dollar Ethereum economy.  The event brought together around eighty participants from across the Ethereum Security Ecosystem—spanning Infrastructure,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q4 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/01/27/allocation-q4-25</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Q4 2025 closed out the year with exciting growth across the ecosystem! Dive into the projects and community initiatives we supported this quarter and see what our grantees have been building:...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkpoint #8: Jan 2026]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/01/20/checkpoint-8</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-8 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here.    If you enjoy reading core development updates, you may also be...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon 8 is coming to Mumbai, India in November 2026]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/23/devcon-mumbai</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Devcon, the Ethereum community’s annual global gathering for builders, will take place from 3-6 November 2026 at the JIO World Center in Mumbai, India.  This Devcon 8 update is not a full vision, but will help organizers and the wider ecosystem plan. More details on programming, tracks, and participation...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hegota Upgrade EIP Proposal Timelines]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/22/hegota-timeline</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Fusaka shipped PeerDAS in addition to a myriad of minor features and Glamsterdam’s major features will include Block-level Access Lists and enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation.  Now we begin outlining the subsequent upgrade: Hegotá....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shipping an L1 zkEVM #2: The Security Foundations]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/18/zkevm-security-foundations</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/18/zkevm-security-foundations</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thanks to Arantxa Zapico, Benedikt Wagner, and Dmitry Khovratovich from the EF cryptography team for their contributions, and to Ladislaus, Kev, Alex, and Marius for the careful review and feedback.  The zkEVM ecosystem has been sprinting for a year. And it worked! We crossed the finish line for real-time...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Future of Ethereum’s State]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/16/future-of-state</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/16/future-of-state</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Stateless Consensus team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ethereum. Special thanks to Ladislaus von Daniels and Marius van der...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devconnect Argentina Recap]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/04/devconnect-arg-wrap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/04/devconnect-arg-wrap</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Devconnect Buenos Aires wrapped up as the largest Ethereum Foundation event yet, bringing together a global mix of developers, founders, creators, and curious newcomers....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q3 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/02/allocation-q3-25</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/02/allocation-q3-25</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Q3 2025 brought an exciting wave of innovation and community energy! Explore the projects we funded this quarter and the work they’re advancing:...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Making Ethereum Feel Like One Chain Again]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/11/18/eil</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Account Abstraction team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ethereum.  Since the early days of Ethereum, the promise has...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkpoint #7: Nov 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/11/15/checkpoint-7</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/11/15/checkpoint-7</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-6 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here.    If you enjoy reading core development updates, y...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fusaka Mainnet Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/11/06/fusaka-mainnet-announcement</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Fusaka follows this year's Pectra upgrade, representing a major step forward in Ethereum's scaling roadmap that improves L1 performance, increases blob throughput, and enhances user experience.  The Fusaka network upgrade is scheduled to activate on the Ethereum mainnet at slot 13,164,544 (December 3, 2025, 21:49:11 UTC). Fusaka also introduces...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[2 weeks to Devconnect: Everything you need to know]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/11/04/devconnect-arg</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/11/04/devconnect-arg</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In two weeks, we open the doors to the first-ever Ethereum World’s Fair at La Rural in Buenos Aires.  This year isn’t about someday. It’s about now. On Ethereum today you can pay, play, vote, save, borrow, lend, and chat, all onchain — and at Devconnect you’ll experience that...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unveiling ESP's New Grants Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/11/03/new-esp-grants</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/11/03/new-esp-grants</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the past few years, the Ethereum ecosystem has grown in depth, diversity, and maturity. Builders and communities worldwide have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, creating new tools, protocols, and public goods that strengthen the network as a whole. As the ecosystem grows, our approach to supporting it must...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fusaka Update – Transaction Gas Limit Cap arrives with EIP-7825]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/21/fusaka-gascap-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/21/fusaka-gascap-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Starting with the upcoming Fusaka hard fork, EIP-7825 introduces a per-transaction gas limit cap of 2²⁴ (≈ 16.78 million gas).  This change is already live on Holesky and Sepolia, and will activate on mainnet with Fusaka.  Developers and users who rely on very large transactions should verify that...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fusaka Update - Information for Blob users]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/15/fusaka-blob-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/15/fusaka-blob-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr: Over the last couple of days, some L2s noticed that their deployments on Sepolia didn't work properly anymore. This is due to EIP-7594 which changes the format for proofs. In anticipation of Fusaka, we urge all blob originators to update their software to create Cell Proofs instead of blob...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the 2026 EF Internship]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/14/internship-2026</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/14/internship-2026</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation has opened applications for the 2026 Internship Program: a paid, full-time opportunity to work directly with teams advancing the Ethereum protocol and ecosystem.  Interns will join EF teams for 12 weeks over the summer, contributing to active R&D and ecosystem-oriented projects across a wide range of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Supporting privacy with new funding mechanisms]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/09/new-funding-mechanisms</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Funding Coordination team is excited to announce a joint initiative with Keyring Network that introduces a new approach to impact funding in the Ethereum ecosystem....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation’s Commitment to Privacy]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/08/privacy-commitment</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/08/privacy-commitment</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Privacy is the freedom to choose what you share, when you share it, and who you share it with. We all take this for granted in daily life: closing the door to a room, casting a secret ballot, or speaking privately with a friend. But online and onchain, these protections...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkpoint #6: Oct 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/01/checkpoint-6</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/01/checkpoint-6</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Privacy Cluster Leadership Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/01/privacy-cluster-leads</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/10/01/privacy-cluster-leads</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today we are proud to announce a new leadership structure for privacy-related efforts at the Ethereum Foundation:  Igor Barinov joins as coordinator of Privacy @ EF, guiding strategy and alignment across privacy-focused efforts including PSE and more. Igor has over a decade of experience in the Ethereum ecosystem as...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fusaka Testnet Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/09/26/fusaka-testnet-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/09/26/fusaka-testnet-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Fusaka follows this year's Pectra upgrade, representing a major step forward in Ethereum's scaling roadmap by introducing PeerDAS and key improvements that enhance blob throughput, L1 performance, and user experience.  This post announces the testnet activation schedule for the first three testnets, beginning with Holesky at slot 5,283,840 (October...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the districts of the Ethereum World’s Fair]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/09/18/ethereum-worlds-fair</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/09/18/ethereum-worlds-fair</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[World’s Fairs have historically showcased the biggest innovations of their time like telephones, televisions, photography, and light bulbs. In this spirit, Ethereum gets its own World’s Fair this November in Buenos Aires. A week where the ecosystem doesn’t just talk about innovation, but showcases what’s being built now, and what’s...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fusaka $2,000,000 Audit Contest!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/09/15/fusaka-audit-content</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/09/15/fusaka-audit-content</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today, we are excited to announce the start of the Fusaka audit contest, co-sponsored by Gnosis and Lido, hosted on Sherlock, and running for four weeks from September 15th. The goal is simple: maximize scrutiny of the Fusaka upgrade and surface vulnerabilities before they can impact the network.  To...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holešky Testnet Shutdown Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/09/01/holesky-shutdown-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/09/01/holesky-shutdown-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As previously announced, the Holešky testnet has reached its planned end-of-life date and will be sunset shortly. The vast majority of remaining validator nodes will be shut down 2 weeks after the Fusaka upgrade has finalized on Holešky. After this, Holešky will no longer be supported by client, testing or...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ecosystem Support Program's Next Chapter]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/29/esp-next-chapter</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/29/esp-next-chapter</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The EF’s Grants Program launched in 2018 and has evolved over time to become the Ecosystem Support Program (ESP), providing grants and support to builders that help the Ethereum ecosystem thrive. Our mission is to enable work that strengthens Ethereum’s foundations and empowers future builders, in domains such as developer...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Protocol Update 003 — Improve UX]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/29/protocol-update-003</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/29/protocol-update-003</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A few months ago, we announced a renewed focus of Protocol on three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale blobs, Improve UX. Following previous updates on Scale L1 and Scale blobs, this note relates to our “Improve UX” track, and its mission:  **Seamless, secure and permissionless experience across the Ethereum...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Protocol Update 002 - Scale Blobs]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/22/protocol-update-002</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/22/protocol-update-002</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Following up from Protocol Update 001, we’d like to introduce our approach to blob scaling. The L1 serves as a robust foundation for L2 systems to scale Ethereum, and a necessary component of secure L2 solutions is data availability provided by the L1. Data availability ensures that updates L2s make...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trillion Dollar Security - Phase 2]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/20/trillion-dollar-sec-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/20/trillion-dollar-sec-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since announcing the Trillion Dollar Security project, we have surveyed the ecosystem to understand which improvements are highest priority to every layer of the Ethereum stack and community.  Now it is time to begin the next phase of this initiative: acting on the highest priority issues we face. ...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Join Us: EF Protocol Reddit AMA - August 29th, 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/15/protocol-ama</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/15/protocol-ama</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since January 2019, the Ethereum Foundation has held a tradition of engaging directly with the community through our "Ask Us Anything" (AMA) series on Reddit, occurring roughly every six months. These AMAs, previously hosted by the EF Research team, have provided a forum for deep dives into the protocol's evolving...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Protocol Update 001 – Scale L1]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/05/protocol-update-001</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/08/05/protocol-update-001</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In June, we introduced Protocol, reorganizing the Ethereum Foundation’s research & development teams to better align on our current strategic goals, Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX without compromising on our commitment to Ethereum's security and hardness.  Over the coming weeks, we’ll publish updates on each work stream,...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[lean Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/31/lean-ethereum</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/31/lean-ethereum</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Yesterday Ethereum turned 10. Today, lean Ethereum is unveiled as a vision—and personal mission—for the next 10 years.  We stand at the dawn of a new era. Millions of TPS. Quantum adversaries. How does Ethereum marry extreme performance with uncompromising security and decentralization?  TLDR: next-generation cryptography is central...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Celebrating 10 Years of Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/30/ethereum-10-years</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/30/ethereum-10-years</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On July 30, 2025, the Ethereum community marked a major milestone: ten years since the Ethereum’s genesis block and mainnet launch.  What began as a whitepaper has evolved into a decentralized platform now powering thousands of applications, tools, and communities around the world....]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkpoint #5: July 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/29/checkpoint-5</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/29/checkpoint-5</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here.  !we-are-here.png...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q2 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/23/allocation-q2-25</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/23/allocation-q2-25</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[From grassroots gatherings to breakthrough projects, here's what we supported in Q2 2025! Scroll down to explore the work happening across the Ethereum ecosystem:...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Future of Ecosystem Development at the EF]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/10/future-of-ecodev</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/10/future-of-ecodev</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum stands at a pivotal moment. Interest in Ethereum has expanded beyond technologists and enthusiasts, bringing enterprises, governments, and everyday users who seek practical solutions and tangible benefits. The Ethereum ecosystem is adapting to meet these needs, and the Ethereum Foundation is ready to play its part.  As outlined...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shipping an L1 zkEVM #1: Realtime Proving]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/10/realtime-proving</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/10/realtime-proving</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thanks to Kevaundray Wedderburn, Alex Stokes, Tim Beiko, Mary Maller, Alexander Hicks, George Kadianakis, Dankrad Feist, and Justin Drake for feedback and review.  Ethereum is going all in on ZK. Eventually we expect to migrate to using ZK proofs at all levels of the stack, from consensus layer signature...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Partial history expiry announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/08/partial-history-exp</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/07/08/partial-history-exp</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As of today, all Ethereum execution clients support partial history expiry in accordance with EIP-4444. While work on full, rolling history expiry is ongoing, users can expect to reduce the disk space required for an Ethereum node by 300-500 GB by removing the block data prior to the Merge. This...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkpoint #4: Berlinterop]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/19/checkpoint-4</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/19/checkpoint-4</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here.  This is a special edition of the series!  Kicking off Berlin Blockchain Week, ethereum core...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[World Experience: Updates from the Next Billion Fellowship]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/16/world-experience</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/16/world-experience</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is an update from the Next Billion Fellowship Program. Applications are rolling and open for cohort 6 beginning in October 2025.  Individuals interacting with an application have a user experience. Collectives interacting with a protocol have a world experience. There are many worlds that the Ethereum protocol touches;...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Now accepting interns - Join the Ethereum Season of Internships]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/12/season-of-internships</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/12/season-of-internships</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We’re thrilled to announce that internship applications are now open for the first-ever Ethereum Season of Internships!  The Ethereum Season of Internships is a collection of paid, fully-remote summer internships offered across the Ethereum ecosystem. It is designed to help establish more paths for the next generation of contributors...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tickets are live for the Ethereum World’s Fair! And we're launching the Supporter Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/10/devconnect-arg-ticket</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/10/devconnect-arg-ticket</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's happening: Devconnect is coming to Buenos Aires, 17–22 November 2025. And we are bringing the first-ever Ethereum World’s Fair to the city.  The Ethereum World’s Fair is for the Ethereum community and anyone curious about what Ethereum can do in the real world. We’re starting in Argentina, one...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation Treasury Policy]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/04/ef-treasury-policy</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/04/ef-treasury-policy</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thank you to the EFers that provided valuable input and feedback to the draft document: Bastian Aue, Vitalik Buterin, Bogdan Popa, Tomasz Stańczak, Fredrik Svantes, Yoav Weiss, Dankrad Feist, Tim Beiko, Nicolas Consigny, Nixo, Alex Stokes, Ladislaus, and Joseph Schweitzer.  Thank you to kpk, Steakhouse Financial, and pcaversaccio for...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkpoint #3: June 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/03/checkpoint-3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/03/checkpoint-3</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Devconnect ARG Scholars Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/03/devconnect-arg-scholars</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/03/devconnect-arg-scholars</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce the Devconnect Scholars Program, as part of Devconnect ARG 2025! The Scholars Program will welcome 100 leaders who are expanding Ethereum's reach by connecting it to new communities, industries, and ideas. Scholars will co-learn and co-create, building bridges between Ethereum and other worlds. The 2025...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Protocol]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/02/announcing-protocol</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/02/announcing-protocol</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum stands at the edge of major breakthroughs. zkEVMs have rapidly accelerated, enabling us to rearchitect L1 to simultaneously support scale, verifiability, security and censorship-resistance. L2s are hardening, meeting users where they are, and eager to double down on using Ethereum as their root of trust. In short, the world...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Trillion Dollar Security Initiative]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/14/trillion-dollar-security</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/14/trillion-dollar-security</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum is the most secure blockchain ecosystem. This is the result of 10 years of progress and iteration across every level of Ethereum’s technology stack, from wallet UX to developer tooling to consensus protocol security.  But being the most secure platform in the crypto ecosystem isn’t enough. Ethereum’s ambition...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q1 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/08/allocation-q1-25</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/08/allocation-q1-25</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A new year means new momentum, and new grants! Take a look at the projects that received support in Q1 2025, listed below:...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[CVE-2025-30147 - The curious case of subgroup check on Besu]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/07/the-curious-case</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/07/the-curious-case</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thanks to Marius Van Der Wijden for creating the test case and statetest, and for helping the Besu team confirm the issue. Also, kudos to the Besu team, the EF security team, and Kevaundray Wedderburn. Additionally, thanks to Yuxiang Qiu, Justin Traglia, Marius Van Der Wijden, Benedikt Wagner, and Kevaundray...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Ethereum Season of Internships]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/05/ethereum-season-of-internships</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/05/ethereum-season-of-internships</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Every year, the Ethereum ecosystem welcomes thousands of builders through community events, hackathons, courses, bootcamps, and campus clubs. However, many newcomers struggle to remain engaged, as they face challenges securing structured early-career opportunities. The Ethereum Season of Internships directly addresses this retention gap by creating a coordinated collection of internship...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum University Tour]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/30/uni-tour</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/30/uni-tour</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Are you part of a university blockchain club eager to dive deeper into the world of Ethereum? We want to connect with you!  The Ethereum Foundation is sponsoring a global University Tour in partnership with BuidlGuidl, designed to activate student communities and grow the next generation of Ethereum builders....]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkpoint #2: Apr 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/29/checkpoint-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/29/checkpoint-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 calls, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation's Management and Board Structure]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/28/ef-mgmt-board</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/28/ef-mgmt-board</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The recent appointments of the two Co-Executive Directors and President are part of a broader effort to strengthen the Ethereum Foundation, and this structure is designed to ensure our vision, strategic and balanced execution, technical direction, and ecosystem development. This blog is intended to clarify the structure of the management...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation’s Vision]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/28/ef-vision</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/28/ef-vision</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[_Ethereum’s strength lies in its decentralization — not just technically, but socially and structurally. This blog articulates the EF's vision, its role, and priorities as one of the ecosystem's stewards. We use this moment as an opportunity to restate our vision, principles and values which we continue to uphold as...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation's Next Chapter]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/28/next-chapter</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/28/next-chapter</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi! This is Hsiao-Wei and Tomasz co-writing this blog post. We've now been in our new Co-Executive Director roles for almost a month. The honeymoon is over, it's time to get moving....]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[10 Years of Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/24/ten-years</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/24/ten-years</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On July 30th at 3:26:13 PM +UTC, Ethereum will celebrate 10 years since the genesis block.  _Ethereum has come a long way. It came to life, survived and thrived against all odds, and led to breakthroughs in tokenization, fundraising, DeFi and digital ownership. It's bootstrapped entire industries, and is...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pectra Mainnet Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/23/pectra-mainnet</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/23/pectra-mainnet</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Pectra network upgrade is scheduled to activate on the Ethereum mainnet on May 07, 2025 at epoch 364032 (10:05:11 UTC)! Mainnet client releases are listed below....]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Destino Devconnect - A local grant round to bring Argentina onchain]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/22/destino-devconnect</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/22/destino-devconnect</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We’re kicking off the road to Devconnect in Buenos Aires (Nov 17–22) with Destino Devconnect, a community-powered push to bring Argentina onchain. From now until November, we’re inviting local builders, organizers, and enthusiasts to unite under one banner to accelerate Ethereum adoption in Argentina and across Latam....]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 6]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/10/epf-6</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/10/epf-6</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[TL;DR:   Review the program details for EPF6 🔎  Applications for EPF6 are open until April 30 📝  An introductory town hall will be held for an overview and questions on April 21 at 4PM UTC 🎙️   We are excited to announce that the applications...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 5 Recap]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/10/epf-5-recap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/04/10/epf-5-recap</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[TL;DR: The EPF successfully concluded the fifth cohort, Study Group 2025 and is preparing for cohort six (EPF6). Applications will be announced soon, keep an eye on the EF blog! In the meantime, get ready by enhancing your Ethereum protocol knowledge at EPF.wiki and sign up for the newsletter to...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Checkpoint - March 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/25/acdcheckpoint-001</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/25/acdcheckpoint-001</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for brief high-level updates with a target cadence of every 4-5 calls, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the initial update here. All subsequent updates will be hosted here on...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holesky and Hoodi Testnet Updates]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/18/hoodi-holesky</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/18/hoodi-holesky</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Pectra testnet activation revealed issues in clients with deposit contract configurations changes on Ethereum testnets. While Sepolia's recovery was straightforward and the network has since fully recovered, Holesky experienced extensive inactivity leaks as part of its recovery mechanism.  The Holesky network has since then finalized, but the exited...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation Board of Directors Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/09/board-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/09/board-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that Hsiao-Wei Wang is joining the Ethereum Foundation’s Board of Directors. The current board members now include Aya Miyaguchi (President) , Vitalik Buterin (Founder), Patrick Storchenegger (Swiss council) and Hsiao-Wei Wang (Co-ED).  As this transition unfolds, the board will share further updates on its...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mekong Deprecation Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/06/mekong-devnet</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/06/mekong-devnet</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Mekong devnet was meant to be a playground for wallet developers to experiment with UX changes and for stakers to gain confidence in the upcoming Pectra changes.  The Pectra network upgrade has been activated on the Ethereum Sepolia and Holesky testnets. These networks can now be used to...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devconnect 2025 - An “Ethereum World’s Fair” in Buenos Aires]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/05/devconnect-2025</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/05/devconnect-2025</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We’re excited to announce that the next Devconnect will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 17th to the 22nd, 2025 at the iconic venue La Rural!  This year, we are aiming for something bigger than just Devconnect: We want to support an effort that the local community...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sepolia Pectra Incident Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/05/sepolia-pectra-incident</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/05/sepolia-pectra-incident</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[At 7:29 UTC today, on epoch 222464, the Pectra network upgrade went live on the Sepolia testnet.  Unfortunately, an issue with Sepolia's permissioned deposit contract prevented many execution layer clients from including transactions in blocks. The root cause was identified within minutes, and client teams immediately began working on...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Welcoming a new EF leadership structure]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/01/leadership-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/03/01/leadership-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation is thrilled to announce a new leadership structure, welcoming Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak as co-Executive Directors effective March 17th. This marks an exciting new chapter in the Foundation's evolution as we continue to support a growing Ethereum ecosystem....]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Audit Results for the Pectra System Contracts]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/28/pectra-audit-results</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/28/pectra-audit-results</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The security of the Ethereum protocol is continually being improved, and one recent effort is the external security review of the Pectra System Contracts.  The results of this review can be found in the audits repository, and the TL;DR is that all discovered issues deemed relevant or important from...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[A new chapter in the infinite garden]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/25/aya-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/25/aya-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[My dear Ethereum community,  Today, I’m excited to turn the page and share that I will be closing this chapter as Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation soon and stepping into a new role as its President. This new opportunity will allow me to continue supporting EF’s institutional relationships,...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pectra Audit Competition Launches on Cantina]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/21/pectra-audit</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/21/pectra-audit</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today, we're excited to announce the Pectra Audit Competition, kicking off on Cantina! This month-long event will run from February 21 to March 24, and we're excited to see what issues the security community can find....]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stories from Bangkok: Devcon SEA Scholars Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/18/devcon-sea-scholars</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/18/devcon-sea-scholars</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Across different disciplines and geographies, builders are exploring how Ethereum fits into their work and communities. The Devcon SEA Scholars Program brought together 93 of these individuals in Bangkok who are bridging Ethereum with other worlds and pushing Ethereum's boundaries.  This community of builders, thinkers, and creators was selected...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pectra Testnet Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/14/pectra-testnet-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/14/pectra-testnet-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q4 2024]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/06/allocation-q4-24</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/06/allocation-q4-24</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The new year may be here, but we're still inspired by the incredible projects funded in Q4 2024. Check out the table below for an overview of the grantees shaping the future with their work!...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Studies 2025]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/05/ethereum-protocol-studies</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/02/05/ethereum-protocol-studies</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr: Ethereum Protocol Studies is returning for 2025. Visit epf.wiki to fill out the survey and join the town hall on Wednesday, Feb 12.  The Ethereum Protocol Studies program (EPS) is back for 2025! Designed to lower the barrier to understanding Ethereum's core protocol, EPS provides structured learning and...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[From quarters to cycles: accelerating ethereum.org]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/01/23/cycle-1-ethereum-org</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/01/23/cycle-1-ethereum-org</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We're evolving how we build ethereum.org. Starting January 20th, we've adopted Shape Up cycles - focused 6-week build periods followed by 2-week cooldowns. For Cycle 1, each project below will ship by the end of February - no automatic rollovers to next cycle.  Quick point of clarification: this is...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[ethereum.org Year in Review]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/01/22/2024-on-ethereum-org</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/01/22/2024-on-ethereum-org</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[2024 was a great year for ethereum.org, and as we already have our hands full with projects and initiatives for 2025, it's important to take a moment to celebrate the achievements made possible by the community this past year.  With that in mind, we've put together a recap of...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing the 2025 Academic Grants Round]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/01/21/academic-round-25</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/01/21/academic-round-25</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The EF's Ecosystem Funding Initiative team is proud to announce the launch of the 2025 Academic Grants Round, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related academic research. With a dedicated fund of $2 million, we are eager to build upon the success of the previous...]]></description>
            <category>Funding Coordination</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the 2024 Academic Grants Round Recipients]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/01/17/academic-grants-recipients</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/01/17/academic-grants-recipients</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ecosystem Funding Initiative team is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 Academic Grants Round! This round, we are proud to support 41 projects from researchers and institutions worldwide. These projects address fundamental challenges and opportunities in areas critical to Ethereum’s growth, including cryptography, consensus mechanisms, security, execution,...]]></description>
            <category>Funding Coordination</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Results from the Academic Grants Round 2022]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/10/academic-grants-22</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/10/academic-grants-22</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We firmly believe that information is a public good that should be freely shared within the community. In line with this philosophy, in 2022 we initiated a series of grants to support academic research to foster knowledge and further enhance the Ethereum ecosystem. The response we received was overwhelming, and...]]></description>
            <category>Funding Coordination</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Digital Repatriation]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/09/digital-repatriation</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/09/digital-repatriation</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The following is an update from Next Billion Fellow Mulenga Kapwepwe and her initiative "Summitshare". For more about the Next Billion Fellowship Program and to apply, please visit https://nxbn.ethereum.foundation/.  Mulenga Kapwepwe, founder of the Women’s History Museum of Zambia  posed a question in 2022 to a small group...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The latest chapter for Ethereum & highlights from Devcon SEA]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/04/devcon-sea-wrap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/04/devcon-sea-wrap</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Devcon has always been a living reflection of Ethereum’s growth, challenges, and community ambitions. It showcases the most pressing topics, the newest innovations, and the people building the future of decentralized technology. As Ethereum grows, so too does Devcon.  Two years ago, right before Devcon VI in Bogotá, the...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q3 2024]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/03/esp-allocation-q324</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/03/esp-allocation-q324</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Curious about the projects and community initiatives that were funded last quarter? Explore the Q3 grantees and their impactful work below:...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The ETH Rangers Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/02/ethrangers-public-goods</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/02/ethrangers-public-goods</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Protocol Security Research Team and the Ecosystem Funding Initiative at the Ethereum Foundation are proud to announce the launch of the ETH Rangers program to help incentivize Public Goods Security Work for the Ethereum Ecosystem....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Next Billion Fellowship Program Applications Now Open!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/11/26/nb-fellows-cohort-5</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/11/26/nb-fellows-cohort-5</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We’re excited to announce that applications for the Next Billion Fellowship Program are now open!...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Attackathon is Live]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/11/25/ethereum-protocol-attackathon</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/11/25/ethereum-protocol-attackathon</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Protocol Security Research Team and the Ecosystem Funding Initiative at the Ethereum Foundation are pleased to announce the launch of the first Ethereum protocol Attackathon with a reward pool of $1,500,000, hosted by Immunefi. The attackathon runs between November 25th and January 20th and aims to enhance the security...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the 2025 EF Internship Program!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/11/16/announcing-ef-internship-program</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/11/16/announcing-ef-internship-program</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The 2025 Ethereum Foundation internship applications are open! Both research and development teams have open positions. Applications close on December 9, 2024.  The Ethereum Foundation is running its first formal summer internship program in 2025 aimed at nurturing the next generation of Ethereum developers and researchers.  In...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mekong Testnet Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/11/07/introducing-mekong-testnet</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/11/07/introducing-mekong-testnet</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After scoping the Pectra fork, a successful interop event and four devnets, we're now launching the first short-lived Pectra testnet: Mekong!  The Mekong testnet includes all the EIPs proposed for the upcoming Pectra fork on Ethereum. These changes include UX changes via EIP-7702, Staking changes via [EIP-72...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Devcon schedule is live!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/31/devcon-sea-schedule</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/31/devcon-sea-schedule</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi Ethereum frens,  With just 13 days to go until Devcon, we’re amazed by how huge this year’s event will be! Our expected number of attendees has doubled since last time (12,000 vs. 6,000 in Bogotá), we have more than twice the number of Community Hubs and Impact Spaces,...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meet the teams at the Devcon Impact Forum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/25/devcon-supporters-forum</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/25/devcon-supporters-forum</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Devcon community,  We’re excited to introduce the teams joining us for the Devcon SEA Impact Forum. These areas in the Devcon venue are where you can meet contributors driving important Ethereum projects, explore the ecosystem, and connect with innovators shaping the future of Ethereum.  The Impact Forum is...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum.org 2024 Translatathon recap]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/16/translatathon-2024-recap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/16/translatathon-2024-recap</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The 2nd edition of the ethereum.org Translatathon is in the books! This year, we saw 327 contributors translate an incredible 2.53 million words across 70 languages. Let's look at the details:...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EcoDev Research Fellowship - Call for Applications]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/11/research-fellowship-app</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/11/research-fellowship-app</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The EcoDev Research Team at the Ethereum Foundation is excited to announce the launch of five six-month research fellowship positions. This fellowship offers the opportunity for participants to dive deep into underexplored Ethereum use cases, identifying blockers and enablers that may affect their development.  We invite researchers, developers, community...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Six weeks until Devcon SEA in Bangkok]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/01/devcon-sea-six-weeks</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/10/01/devcon-sea-six-weeks</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[4844 Data Challenge: Insights and Winners]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/09/13/4844-data-challenge</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/09/13/4844-data-challenge</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In March 2024, the Ethereum network underwent a significant upgrade with the implementation of EIP-4844, an essential part of the Dencun hardfork, aimed at bolstering Ethereum’s role as a data availability layer. This upgrade introduced "blobs" of data, dramatically enhancing the scalability of Layer 2 solutions by increasing data availability...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q2 2024]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/08/30/esp-allocation-q224</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/08/30/esp-allocation-q224</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Get ready to explore the exceptional projects and community events that received support in Q2! Learn more about them below:...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Data Collection Grants Round]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/08/14/data-collection-round</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/08/14/data-collection-round</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ecodev Coordinators team at EF announces the 11 recipients of the Data Collection grant round, with a total funding amount of 557,660 USD. After reviews, the winners were selected based on their innovative approaches to advancing data collection and analysis within the Ethereum ecosystem.  The selected projects span...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The ethereum.org Translatathon is back]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/07/25/translatathon</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/07/25/translatathon</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The ethereum.org Translatathon is back this August! This is your chance to contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem by translating Ethereum.org from English into your native language. Not only will you be helping to make Ethereum more accessible, but you’ll also have the opportunity to compete for exciting prizes....]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon 2024 updates - Secure your tickets, apply to speak, and get involved!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/07/09/devcon-7-tickets</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/07/09/devcon-7-tickets</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum family,  We have two major updates today, three smaller ones, and a bunch of reminders about Devcon SEA and how you can get involved ahead of getting together in Bangkok from November 12-15....]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Attackathon in Collaboration with Immunefi]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/07/08/attackathon</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/07/08/attackathon</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Protocol Security (EPS) Research Team is pleased to announce the launch of the first Ethereum protocol Attackathon, hosted by Immunefi. This four-week event aims to enhance the security of the Ethereum protocol through a large-scale crowdsourced security audit competition. Our goal is to raise over 2 million USD...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[blog.ethereum.org mailing list incident]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/07/02/blog-incident</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/07/02/blog-incident</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On 2024-06-23, 00:19 AM UTC, a phishing email was sent out to 35,794 email addresses by updates@blog.ethereum.org with the following content   Users who clicked the link in the email were sent to a malicious website:   This website had a crypto drainer running in the background, and if...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[ZK Grants Round Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/25/zk-grants-round-announce</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/25/zk-grants-round-announce</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation, along with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, zkSync, announces the 25 winners of the collaborative ZK grant round. Each sponsor contributed 150,000 USD to the shared pool of 900,000 USD. The winners were selected through a rank-choice vote after thorough reviews.  The selected projects cover a...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meet Cohort 4 of the Next Billion Fellows!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/24/next-billion-cohort4</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/24/next-billion-cohort4</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As a global public resource, technology must remain open, accessible, and dedicated to promoting the greater good. The Next Billion Fellowship Program is a testament to this vision, seeking to capture stories of communities whose lives are changing for the better. Today, we are proud to introduce seven individuals with...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Launching a Quadratic Funding round for SEA communities]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/14/devcon7-qf-sea</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/14/devcon7-qf-sea</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dear Ethereum explorers,  Announcements are coming one after another as we get closer to Devcon. Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of a quadratic funding round for SEA communities by clr.fund!  We see the excitement and grassroots energy in Southeast Asia growing and have witness...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ticket launch details, on-chain raffle-auction, and programming tracks revealed]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/11/devcon7-ticket-detail</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/11/devcon7-ticket-detail</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With just five months to go, we are entering the hot phase before Devcon! The Supporter Program, Impact Forum, and Devcon Scholars have already launched, bringing us closer to the Devcon ticket launch.  Today we are sharing the details on how to get your Devcon tickets. Additionally, we are...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon Scholars Program Returns for Devcon SEA!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/07/devcon7-scholars</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/06/07/devcon7-scholars</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce the return of the Devcon Scholars Program for Devcon Southeast Asia! Bringing together builders from diverse geographies and disciplines, the Devcon Scholars Program offers more than just a scholarship to attend Devcon – it aims to build a community focused on co-learning and co-creation, to...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Devcon SEA Supporter Program & Impact Teams]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/05/29/devcon7-supporters-impact</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/05/29/devcon7-supporters-impact</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum community friends,  We're excited to share that the Devcon Supporter Program, which explores new ways to fund Ethereum-related public goods and impactful projects, is BACK for Devcon 7 in SEA. Originally launched at Devcon VI in Bogotá as an alternative to traditional event sponsorships, we’re excited to share...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nyota Interop Recap ✨]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/05/22/nyota-interop-recap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/05/22/nyota-interop-recap</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Last week, Ethereum client, testing and research teams from around the world gathered together for a week of intense work on the Pectra network upgrade, PeerDAS and the Verge.  Similarly to previous events like Edelweiss 🏔️ or Amphora 🏺, the focus of the Nyota ✨ interop was achieving multi-client...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q1 2024]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/05/14/esp-allocation-q124</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/05/14/esp-allocation-q124</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We're welcoming the new year with a fresh wave of grants! Discover the projects that received funding in the first quarter of this year, listed down below:...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 5]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/05/13/epf-5-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/05/13/epf-5-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[TL;DR: - Review the program details for EPF5 🔎 - Applications for EPF5 are open until May 26 📝 - A town hall will be held for an overview and questions on May 21 at 4PM UTC. 🎙️   We are excited to announce that the applications are now...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 4 Recap]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/04/22/epf-4-recap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/04/22/epf-4-recap</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[TL;DR: The EPF concluded the fourth cohort and is preparing for a fifth cohort. Applications will be open soon. In the meantime, explore the new EPF.wiki and sign up to get notified when they open.  The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship recently completed its fourth successful cohort, culminating with EPF Day...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sepolia Incident]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/03/21/sepolia-incident</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/03/21/sepolia-incident</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This blog post discloses a threat against the Ethereum network that was present from the Merge up until the Dencun hard fork....]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Devcon SEA venue!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/03/14/devcon-sea-venue</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/03/14/devcon-sea-venue</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hello, Devcon awaiters!  We are thrilled to announce the venue where we’ll meet for Devcon 7 in Southeast Asia from November 12-15!  This year we are transforming the QSNCC - Queen Sirikit National Convention Center into a lively world that showcases our community spirit, and all of the...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devconnect Scholars Program - Ethereum Stories from Istanbul and Beyond]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/29/scholars-stories</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/29/scholars-stories</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum is growing, and diversity of human participation creates resilience throughout the ecosystem. The Devconnect Scholars Program is one small effort that aims to create resilience through community diversity. Better representation across human geography and demographics leads to diverse experiences and new perspectives that help the Ethereum protocol serve the...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dencun Mainnet Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/27/dencun-mainnet-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/27/dencun-mainnet-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[March 12, 2024 update: Since the initial publication of this post, several client teams have made Dencun-compatible releases containing significant performance and stability improvements. While previously announced versions are still considered sufficient for the upgrade, a column has been added to the Client Releases tables highlighting the latest recommended versions...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[ZK Grants Round]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/21/zk-grants-round</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/21/zk-grants-round</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation is thrilled to announce a collaborative grant round with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and zkSync to develop Zero Knowledge public goods projects. Each co-funder of the grant round has contributed 150K USD in funds, bringing the total grant pool to 900K USD.  The breadth and complexity...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q4 2023]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/20/esp-allocation-q423</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/20/esp-allocation-q423</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Even as we embrace the new year, the contributions of our Q4 2023 grantees are not forgotten! Explore the funded projects listed in the table below:...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing the EPF Study Group]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/07/epf-study-group</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/02/07/epf-study-group</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) is a program designed to reduce the barrier to entry for developers interested in working on the core protocol. As core developer (and EPF creator) Piper Merriam likes to say, the door is comically wide open. EPF helps you walk through it.  Over the...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum.org year in review]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/31/2023-on-ethereum-org</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/31/2023-on-ethereum-org</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A look back at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies ahead in 2024  2023 was an excellent year for the team behind the ethereum.org website, and its community — we already feel a little nostalgic, but it's important to make space for celebrating the things the ethereum.org community...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sepolia & Holesky Dencun Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/24/sepolia-holesky-dencun</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/24/sepolia-holesky-dencun</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Important update: since the initial publication of this post, Lodestar has published a new release, v1.15.0, which Holesky users must upgrade to prior to Dencun's activation on February 7th. Additionally, Prysm and Nimbus have both published highly recommended releases for Holesky. Prysm users are encouraged to use v4.2.1, and Nimbus...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wrapping up the KZG Ceremony]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/23/kzg-wrap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/23/kzg-wrap</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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: "Summoning the spirit of the Dankshard"  As the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goerli Dencun Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/10/goerli-dencun-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/10/goerli-dencun-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 goes well, the Sepolia and Holesky testnets will activate Dencun...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Southeast Asia welcomes Devcon 7!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/03/devcon-sea-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/01/03/devcon-sea-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey Ethereum family! 🦄  We're delighted to start this new year by sharing an update that's not just about revealing the location and date for Devcon 7, but rather an exciting expansion of our vision. This year, we're embracing the whole Southeast Asia region as the stage for our...]]></description>
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            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update - Q3 2023]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/12/19/esp-allocation-q323</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/12/19/esp-allocation-q323</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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!...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Run a Node Grants Round Grantee Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/12/06/run-a-node-grantee</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/12/06/run-a-node-grantee</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 a validator, such as facilitating data queries for research, examining...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goerli Long Term Support Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/30/goerli-lts-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/30/goerli-lts-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[March 18, 2024 update: The Dencun network upgrade successfully activated on the Ethereum mainnet on March 13, 2024. As per the original wording of this announcement, this would imply an April 13, 2024 sunset date for the Goerli testnet.  That said, as of this writing, **[nearly all Goerli validators](https://grafana.observability.ethpandaops.io/dashboard/snapshot/fwALK9PEe7CLEOO81lma5bT6k7jq7Gcs?orgId=0&from=1707927490905&...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Application Open for Next Billion Fellowship Cohort 4]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/28/nxbn-cohort4-apply</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/28/nxbn-cohort4-apply</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 skeptical, while others may claim to have known all along...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devconnect Istanbul 2023 - A celebration of progress and the Ethereum community]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/12/04/devconnect-ist-wrap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/12/04/devconnect-ist-wrap</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 many more join the 70+ deep-dive events organized by independent...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beyond Borders - Unveiling Potential of Blockchain in a Crisis]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/15/beyond-borders-nb</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/15/beyond-borders-nb</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 protect and support us may become twisted, corrupted, or rendered...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update 2 - Preparing for Devconnect Events]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/03/devconnect-ist-update-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/03/devconnect-ist-update-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 enforcement, and external risk advisory partners to understand and...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secured #6 - Writing Robust C - Best Practices for Finding and Preventing Vulnerabilities]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/02/writing-robust-c</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/11/02/writing-robust-c</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 idea was to create a robust and efficient cryptographic library...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update - Advisory on recent events and potential travel considerations]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/10/23/devconnect-ist-advisory-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/10/23/devconnect-ist-advisory-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 we host an event. In the case of Devconnect...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum.org Translatathon Recap]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/09/20/ethereum-org-translatathon</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/09/20/ethereum-org-translatathon</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 level up their knowledge.  To best serve this purpose,...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devconnect Istanbul Updates!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/09/18/devconnect-ist-updates</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/09/18/devconnect-ist-updates</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 to secure your Devconnect Cowork ticket here, and...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geth v1.13.0]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/09/12/geth-v1-13-0</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/09/12/geth-v1-13-0</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Geth v1.13 comes fairly close on the heels of the 1.12 release family, which is funky, considering it's main feature has been in development for a cool 6 years now. 🤯  This post will go into a number of technical and historical details, but if you just want the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Execution Layer Specification]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/29/eel-spec</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/29/eel-spec</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update: Q2 2023]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/15/allocation-update-q2-23</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/15/allocation-update-q2-23</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's time to share the list of impressive projects and community events that received funding in Q2! Read all about them below:...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devconnect Istanbul Cowork Tickets Are Live!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/08/devconnect-ist-cowork-tickets</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/08/devconnect-ist-cowork-tickets</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Greetings, Ethereum builders and enthusiasts!  We're thrilled to announce that ticket sales for the Devconnect Cowork in Istanbul are now open! 🥳  You can get your tickets here,and also see that our website got a fresh new makeover! 💅  Come back here right after you snagged your...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Human Stories of Ethereum - Meet the Next Billion Fellows Cohort 3]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/07/nb-fellows-cohort-3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/07/nb-fellows-cohort-3</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As we look at our world, it seems that individual humans are increasingly on the edges and in the margins of the big stories that play out on our scrolling screens. The narratives that captivate and resonate with ordinary folks seem to exist at a scale beyond the reach of...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[KZG Ceremony Special Contributions]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/02/kzg-special-contributions</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/08/02/kzg-special-contributions</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Special Contribution Period for the KZG Ceremony ran  01-16 April 2023. This allowed participants to contribute in ways that may not have been possible in the Open Contribution period. While the Ceremony only needs a single honest participant to provide a secure output, Special Contributions provide additional assurances...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing The Road To Devcon Grants]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/29/road-to-devcon7-grants</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/29/road-to-devcon7-grants</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Devcon 7 is scheduled for 2024, and while the final location is still TBA, we can say one thing with certainty: Devcon is coming to Southeast Asia! 🌏  We can’t wait for our journey to Devcon 7 in Southeast Asia to begin and are happy to see that the...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Academic Grants Round 2023 Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/28/academic-grants-round-23</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/28/academic-grants-round-23</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce the recipients of this year's Academic Grants Round. We received more than 250 applications and have awarded over $2 million in funding to 43 projects across several categories.  The awarded teams are distributed all across the globe with researchers from Austria, Australia, Canada, China,...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing The Devconnect Istanbul Scholars Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/26/devconnect-instanbul-scholars</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/26/devconnect-instanbul-scholars</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are thrilled to announce the first-ever Devconnect Scholars Program!  The Devconnect Scholars Program will provide talented and values-aligned individuals from communities currently geographically and demographically underrepresented in Ethereum with financial support to attend Devconnect in Istanbul this November.  Apply to the program here by July 23rd, 2023....]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update: Q1 2023]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/15/allocation-update-q1-23</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/15/allocation-update-q1-23</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Kicking off the year with an addition to our Allocation Updates: we've included the contact details for grantees' projects, so that interested readers can reach out and get involved or learn more!  With that being said, read on to find out which projects received funding in Q1 in the...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Fellowship - Fourth Cohort Applications Are Open!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/01/ethereum-protocol-fellowship-fourth-apps-open</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/06/01/ethereum-protocol-fellowship-fourth-apps-open</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[TL;DR:  The application deadline for the fourth cohort of EPF has been extended 📆 The EPF Team held a town hall & FAQ session - watch the recording here 👀 Submit your application here before June 18th 📝  Greetings, Ethereum community!  We are excited to announce that...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Fellowship: Third Cohort Recap]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/05/10/ethereum-protocol-fellowship-third-recap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/05/10/ethereum-protocol-fellowship-third-recap</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[TL;DR: The EPF concluded its third cohort and is preparing for the fourth cohort. Applications will be open soon. Sign up here to get notified when they open.  The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship recently completed its third successful cohort in February 2023. Its completion marked 4 months of immersive learning,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secured #5: Public Vulnerability Disclosures Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/05/03/secured-5-disclosures-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/05/03/secured-5-disclosures-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today, we have disclosed the second set of vulnerabilities from the Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty Program! 🥳 These vulnerabilities were previously discovered and reported directly to the Ethereum Foundation.  When bugs are reported and validated, the Ethereum Foundation coordinates disclosures to affected teams and helps cross-check vulnerabilities across all...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scouting for the Future: Technology and the Scouting Movement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/05/01/scouting-future-movement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/05/01/scouting-future-movement</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hello everyone! My name is Mihajlo, and over the past six months as part of my Next Billion Fellowship, I’ve been working to bring the benefits of Web3 to the World Scouting Movement.  Growing up in Serbia in the '90s, I experienced firsthand the devastating effects that wars and...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devconnect is back! See you this year in Istanbul.]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/04/20/announcing-devconnect-ist</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/04/20/announcing-devconnect-ist</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dear Ethereum community, builders, and researchers,  At the first-ever Devconnect last year in Amsterdam in 2022, we came together for a week of in-depth workshops and discussions. Many that participated in the sessions and conversations told us they felt Devconnect had a significant impact on the ecosystem by driving...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mainnet Shapella Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/03/28/shapella-mainnet-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/03/28/shapella-mainnet-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Withdrawals are coming! The Shapella network upgrade will activate on the Ethereum network at epoch 194048, scheduled for 22:27:35 UTC on Apr. 12, 2023 Stakers & node operators should read this post as well as the Withdrawals FAQ From now until April 5th, the Ethereum Bug Bounty rewards have been...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Next Billion Fellowship Cohort 3 - Call for applications]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/03/16/fellowship-cohort-3-applications</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/03/16/fellowship-cohort-3-applications</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum is a living entity, distributed across time and space, accessible through our screens and communication devices. What gives it life are the myriad human relationships that have become intertwined with the roots, branches, and leaves of the Ethereum state tree. This single tree encodes immense value, digital property, and...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goerli Shapella Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/03/08/goerli-shapella-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/03/08/goerli-shapella-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Withdrawals are coming! The Shapella network upgrade will activate on the Goerli network at epoch 162304, scheduled for 10:25:36 PM UTC on Mar. 14, 2023 Stakers & node operators should read this post as well as the Withdrawals FAQ The Zhejiang testnet can be used to test Shapella functionality prior...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Devcon 7!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/28/devcon-7-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/28/devcon-7-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Last year, after a three-year-long pause, we emerged from the pandemic stronger than before and reunited in Bogotá for the largest and some would say, “[best](https://twitter.com/avsa/status/15...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update: Q4 2022]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/22/allocation-update-q4-22</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/22/allocation-update-q4-22</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There's been buzz and excitement surrounding the new year, but we haven't forgotten about the grantees from last quarter! Find out which projects received funding in Q4 2022 in the table below:...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sepolia Shapella Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/21/sepolia-shapella-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/21/sepolia-shapella-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Withdrawals are coming! The Shapella network upgrade will activate on the Sepolia network at epoch 56832, scheduled for 4:04:48 AM UTC on Feb. 28, 2023 Stakers & node operators should read this post as well as the Withdrawals FAQ The Zhejiang testnet can be used to test Shapella functionality prior...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 38]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/10/finalized-no-38</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/10/finalized-no-38</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Withdrawals are imminent.  tl;dr  Shanghai+Capella (aka Shapella) is on the horizon. Stakers, node operators, infrastructure providers -- pay attention and test! The Academic Grants Round is live! Applications are due by February 27, 2023...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Layer 2 Community Grants Winners]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/14/layer-2-grants-roundup</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/14/layer-2-grants-roundup</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Privacy & Scaling Explorations team is excited to announce the winners of the Layer 2 Community Grants 2022.  The Layer 2 Community Grants round started on October 24th, 2022 and was open for 6 weeks. In total we received 130+ proposals and thank each project for taking the...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Edelweiss Interop Recap]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/07/edelweiss-interop-recap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/07/edelweiss-interop-recap</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With The Merge now firmly behind us, protocol developers have been making progress across a (record?) number of areas over the past few months. Withdrawals, danksharding, EOF, verkle tries, history expiry, SSZ and more have all seen significant progress recently!  In order to help move each of these threads...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The potential to empower disenfranchised communities in Latin America using Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/06/empower-latam-ethereum-fellows</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/06/empower-latam-ethereum-fellows</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The following is an update from Ethereum Foundation Fellow Marcus AM.  Hola 👋, my name is Marcus and I'm a researcher and builder from Guatemala, and an EF Fellow. An optimist at heart, I’m driven by leveraging social, cultural and technological innovation to build better societies - a conviction...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup - Q1 2023]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/03/esp-grantee-roundout-q1-23</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/02/03/esp-grantee-roundout-q1-23</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we check in on projects that are well underway or already at the finish line.  You may have noticed something different—instead of monthly posts, we'll be highlighting grantees who...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Looking back: 2022 on ethereum.org]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/01/18/2022-on-ethereum-org</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/01/18/2022-on-ethereum-org</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[From the explosion of the scaling and layer 2 ecosystems to the first Devcon in three years and The Merge, it has been an exciting year for Ethereum and ethereum.org. We’ve shipped many impactful features and content, with thousands of incredible contributors helping us along the way.  Let’s dive...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Roundup]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/12/29/supported-teams-roundup-22</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/12/29/supported-teams-roundup-22</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  As the year of the Merge ends, we wanted to share updates from many of the Ethereum gardeners and EF-supported teams that achieved long sought accomplishments, both big and small, alongside the rest of the ecosystem in 2022. We all have a lot to be thankful for, from...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[KZG Ceremony Grant Round]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/12/15/kzg-ceremony-grants-round</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/12/15/kzg-ceremony-grants-round</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 for Ethereum scaling initiatives like EIP-4844. Learn more about the Ceremony and participate in the test version at ceremony.ethereum.org....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update Q3 2022]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/12/07/esp-allocation-q3-22</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/12/07/esp-allocation-q3-22</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Before the year comes to a close, we'd like to highlight the amazing projects that received funding in the previous quarter. Read on to learn more about our Q3 grantee lineup!...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Merge Data Challenge Results]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/12/05/merge-data-challenge-results</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/12/05/merge-data-challenge-results</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation is excited to announce the winners of the Merge Data Challenge 🐼.  The challenge ran for ~9 weeks surrounding the Merge, allowing for data analysts to gather and review information both before and after the big event. Participants submitted a treasure trove of data and analysis...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ropsten Shutdown Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/11/30/ropsten-shutdown-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/11/30/ropsten-shutdown-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As previously announced, the Ropsten network has been deprecated and will be shut down in the coming weeks. Over the past few months, infrastructure providers have gradually stopped supporting the network and validator participation rates have been steadily declining.  **The vast majority of remaining validator nodes will be shut...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon VI Recap, Resources & Wrap-Up!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/11/17/devcon-vi-wrap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/11/17/devcon-vi-wrap</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago in October, much of the Ethereum community came together in South America as we reunited for Devcon VI in Bogotá, Colombia!  Today we want to say Thank You(!) to every attendee, volunteer, and contributor that made Devcon VI a success. In this blog post, we...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon VI Scholars: Growing the Infinite Garden]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/11/07/devcon-vi-scholars-wrapup</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/11/07/devcon-vi-scholars-wrapup</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation (EF) exists to help the Ethereum ecosystem thrive, and there are still many discoveries to be made about what Ethereum can do for the world. That's why we support individuals that have the potential to unlock parts of Ethereum's story that are still unwritten.  The Devcon...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Supporters & Impact Booths]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/10/10/devcon-impact-supporters</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/10/10/devcon-impact-supporters</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This year’s Devcon is special in many ways. We’ve used the last three years to create a whole new experience based on all that we’ve seen at past Devcons, and lessons learned while event-planning during the pandemic. Devcon VI involved the community via Community Hubs and Devcon Improvement Proposals (DIPs),...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the EF Fellowship Program, Cohort #2]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/10/10/ef-fellowship-cohort-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/10/10/ef-fellowship-cohort-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Things are looking up for Ethereum. Now that The Merge is complete, a huge weight (measured in tonnes of CO2) has been lifted from the Ethereum community's collective conscience. And the world-at-large is watching to see what this community does next.  Right now the ecosystem has a unique opportunity...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Devcon VI Manual]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/10/04/devcon-manual</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/10/04/devcon-manual</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to Devcon!  This is your Devcon VI Manual, and it includes everything you need to know about Devcon, the surroundings and more. Read closely as we cover things to be aware of before departure, during transit to the venue from Bogotá’s international airport El Dorado, and information related...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kiln Shutdown Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/09/09/kiln-shutdown</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/09/09/kiln-shutdown</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Merge is happening soon! This post explains how and when the upgrade will happen, along with the client versions compatible with it. Kiln, an Ethereum merge testnet launched in early 2022, will be shut down during the week of September 12, 2022. Ropsten and Rinkeby are also deprecated and...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update: Q1 and Q2 2022]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/09/07/esp-q1-q2-allocation-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/09/07/esp-q1-q2-allocation-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's time to share the list of outstanding grantees who received funding in Q1 and Q2 of this year!  You can learn more about their projects below:...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Fellowship: The Third Cohort]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/09/01/ethereum-protocol-fellowship-third</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/09/01/ethereum-protocol-fellowship-third</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Do you enjoy solving interesting and challenging problems? Are you interested in getting involved at the most foundational level of the Ethereum protocol?  The Protocol Support Team (EF) is excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (formerly Core...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Translating the Ethereum Foundation blog]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/31/blog-internationalization</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/31/blog-internationalization</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since the first post in December 2013, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) blog has been the primary way teams within the EF communicate. From announcements about events, to grant waves, protocol upgrades, regular [updates from specific teams](/2021/12/22/ef-supported-teams-research-an...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 37]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/26/finalized-no-37</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/26/finalized-no-37</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[~20 days until the Merge 🚀  tl;dr  The Merge Data Challenge is live! Collect, analyze, and visualize all of the data Merge Mainnet client releases are out. Did you upgrade yet?...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mainnet Merge Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/24/mainnet-merge-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/24/mainnet-merge-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake! The transition, known as The Merge, must first be activated on the Beacon Chain with the Bellatrix upgrade. After this, the proof-of-work chain will migrate to proof-of-stake upon hitting a specific Total Difficulty value. The Bellatrix upgrade is scheduled for epoch 144896 on the Beacon...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 36]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/12/finalized-no-36</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/12/finalized-no-36</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr Merge sequence engaged 🚀...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sepolia Post-Merge Upgrade Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/03/sepolia-post-merge-upgrade</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/08/03/sepolia-post-merge-upgrade</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Sepolia testnet will undergo a post-merge execution layer (EL) upgrade at block 1735371, expected on August 17, 2022 The upgrade will cause EL clients on the network to disconnect from peers which have not transitioned to proof-of-stake. It does not add additional functionality beyond this. Sepolia node operators must...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Academic Grants Round grantee announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/07/29/academic-grants-grantee-announce</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/07/29/academic-grants-grantee-announce</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are thrilled to announce the 39 grantees selected for the recent Academic Grants Round. This grants round invited researchers, think-tanks, Ph.D. students, and all those interested in advancing knowledge around the Ethereum ecosystem to submit academic proposals.  Thank you to all those who submitted proposals, and congratulations to...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goerli/Prater Merge Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/07/27/goerli-prater-merge-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/07/27/goerli-prater-merge-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For the last testnet proof-of-stake transition, Goerli will merge with Prater. The combined Goerli/Prater network will retain the Goerli name post-merge. Bellatrix, the Prater upgrade readying it for The Merge will happen at epoch 112260, expected at 12:24PM UTC on August 4, 2022. After Bellatrix is activated, the Goerli/Prater merge...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon Scholars Returns & Announcing Devcon Week!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/07/20/devcon-scholars-returns-22</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/07/20/devcon-scholars-returns-22</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Queridos Amigos,  Yesterday, Wave #01 of Devcon tickets sold out just a few minutes after going online! After two years of anticipation, the whole team awaited this moment with curious suspense. But don’t worry, more ticket waves are coming soon.  Today we are excited to announce the return...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[DEVCON VI: TICKET SALES BEGIN & MORE!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/07/13/devcon-vi-tickets</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/07/13/devcon-vi-tickets</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Amigos y amigas!  Today, we want to bring everyone a few details on the ticketing process in advance of Monday’s launch, and we have updates on supporter, volunteer, and discount-ticket applications. As the icing on the cake, we'll also introduce you to the Devcon Community Hubs!  But first,...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sepolia Merge Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/30/sepolia-merge-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/30/sepolia-merge-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Note: on July 5, 2022, the recommended releases for go-ethereum and Erigon were modified. See "Client Releases" for details. Sepolia will be the second of three public testnets to run through The Merge. The network will transition to proof-of-stake when the total difficulty on the proof-of-work chain exceeds 17,000,000,000,000,000, which...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon VI: First Tickets & FINAL WEEK of Speaker Applications]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/28/devcon-vi-auction-raffle-speaker</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/28/devcon-vi-auction-raffle-speaker</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago, we opened the speaker and volunteer applications as well as the discount builder and student tickets, and we are excited about the quality of submissions!  This year, we’ve opened applications for those looking to attend Devcon with Builder and Student discounts, as [Speakers...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fellowship Program: Cohort #2 Applications Open & Cohort #1 Roundup]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/21/fellowship-cohort-2-applications-roundup</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/21/fellowship-cohort-2-applications-roundup</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum is a living thing. Yes, at its core there is a virtual machine (the EVM) that runs and faithfully calculates a new state from block to block, but the magic of Ethereum is that one little state machine can be shared by millions of people who might not have...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ropsten, Rinkeby & Kiln Deprecation Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/21/testnet-deprecation</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/21/testnet-deprecation</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Reminder: the Gray Glacier upgrade is scheduled for block 15,050,000, expected June 29, 2022 The Kiln Merge testnet, launched earlier this year, will be shut down shortly after the Ethereum mainnet's transition to proof-of-stake. Ropsten, Ethereum's longest-lived proof-of-work testnet, has transitionned to proof-of-stake. It will be shut down in Q4...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gray Glacier Upgrade Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/16/gray-glacier-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/16/gray-glacier-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled network upgrade at block 15,050,000, which is expected to occur on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and time zones. Please upgrade your node before Monday, June 27, 2022 to account for...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Spotlight on LatAm: Identity solutions for Govtech]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/07/spotlight-on-latam-identity</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/07/spotlight-on-latam-identity</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The following is an update from Ethereum Foundation Fellow Chuy Cepeda.  Our identities hold immense power. In a time when people take great pride in using multiple pseudonyms or personas, we often think about how to identify ourselves. I identify as a native of Monterrey, Mexico, a Latin-American, a...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[DEVCON VI: Applications Online, Participation Details Inside]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/06/devcon-vi-details</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/06/devcon-vi-details</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Queridos amigos,  It’s happening. Devcon is back!  When we first announced that Devcon would take place in Bogotá, we spoke about all the city had to offer, and what we dreamed the event could become.  Later this year, we will finally meet in Bogotá. With Devconnect now...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ropsten TTD Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/03/ropsten-merge-ttd</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/03/ropsten-merge-ttd</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) of 50000000000000000 has been selected for the Ropsten Merge. Stakers and node operators must manually override the TTD in both their execution and consensus layer clients before June 7, 2022. Proof-of-Work testnets can have volatile hash rates and the exact timing of The Merge on...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup - May 2022]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/01/may-22-grantee-roundup</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/06/01/may-22-grantee-roundup</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we check in on projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees!...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wrapping up Devconnect, looking ahead!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/05/30/devconnect-wrap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/05/30/devconnect-wrap</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, we came together in Amsterdam for the first-ever Devconnect. Over eight days, members of the Ethereum community hosted events, intensive workshops, and enlightening talks.  When we announced Devconnect, we envisioned the ecosystem coming together for depth-first and fruitful discussions, and to learn while making serious...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devconnect</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ropsten Merge Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/05/30/ropsten-merge-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/05/30/ropsten-merge-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ropsten will be the first longstanding testnet to run through The Merge A new Ropsten Beacon Chain was launched on May 30, 2022 to provide consensus to the network The Ropsten Beacon Chain will upgrade to merge-compatible protocol rules (Bellatrix) at slot 24000, expected on June 2, 2022 After this,...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 35]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/05/19/finalized-no-35</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/05/19/finalized-no-35</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  ETHStaker/clr.fund Ethereum Staking CLR in progress! Don't wait, 5 days left to contribute Data Availability Sampling is a hard but critical problem. Submit a proposal to the DAS RFP to get involved: $1.5M in funding available!...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secured #4: Bug Bounty Rewards now up to $250,000 USD]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/05/16/secured-no-4</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/05/16/secured-no-4</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation Bug Bounty Program is one of the earliest and longest running programs of its kind. It was launched in 2015 and targeted the Ethereum PoW mainnet and related software. In 2020, a second Bug Bounty Program for the new Proof-of-Stake Consensus Layer was launched, running alongside the...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation Report]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/04/18/ef-report-april-2022</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/04/18/ef-report-april-2022</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today, we’ve published the EF report, which we hope helps the community understand what the Ethereum Foundation is, our core principles, and our vision of Ethereum as an infinite garden.  Click here to read the full report, and to learn more about the EF, our resource allocation processes, 2021...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secured #3: Security Teams]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/04/14/secured-no-3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/04/14/secured-no-3</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the past year, the Ethereum Foundation has significantly grown its team of dedicated security researchers and engineers. Members have joined from a variety of backgrounds ranging from cryptography, security architecture, risk management, exploit development as well as having worked on red and blue teams. The members come from different...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 34]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/03/23/finalized-no-34</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/03/23/finalized-no-34</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  Kiln🧱🔥 is up, check it out #TestingTheMerge is in full swing. Do your part, get involved!...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Kiln Merge Testnet]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/03/14/kiln-merge-testnet</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/03/14/kiln-merge-testnet</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Kintsugi 🍵 merge testnet, launched late December, has been a valuable testing ground for The Merge. Through various test suites, multi-client devnets, shadow forks of Goerli, application deployments, and the community's help #TestingTheMerge, we've arrived at a set of stable and robust protocol specifications. Now that clients have implemented...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secured #2: Public Vulnerability Disclosures]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/03/09/secured-no-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/03/09/secured-no-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today, we disclosed the first set of vulnerabilities from the Ethereum Foundation's Bug Bounty Programs. These vulnerabilities were previously discovered and reported directly to the Ethereum Foundation or client teams via the Bug Bounty Programs for both the Execution Layer and Consensus Layer.  Through its Bug Bounty Programs, which...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Grants Round for Academic Research]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/03/01/academic-grants-round</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/03/01/academic-grants-round</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce a new wave of grants to fund formal research that aims to create more knowledge about Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains. We encourage academics, research centers, PhD Students and all those interested in researching Ethereum to submit their project proposals. This grants round has...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: January 2022 - Japan Local Grants Edition!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/02/24/japan-local-grants-round</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/02/24/japan-local-grants-round</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In today’s roundup, we’re excited to feature four recipients from a recent Local Grants wave in Japan! We see Ethereum as an ever-growing, creative and inclusive playground, and it is our responsibility to let everyone keep playing.  It’s not easy to commit to public goods or novel use cases...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon: Hacia Colombia en 2022 [Redux]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/02/18/colombia-in-2022-redux</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/02/18/colombia-in-2022-redux</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Queridos Amigos,  A few years ago, we outlined what Devcon was all about in the original version of this post, and spoke to our renewed focus on growing the Ethereum ecosystem.  In this updated version, we're excited to re-announce Devcon 6, and to share details on our site-selection,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update: Q3 and Q4, 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/02/15/esp-q3-q4-allocation-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/02/15/esp-q3-q4-allocation-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This one's a double header! Below you'll find the lists of grantees from both Q3 and Q4 of 2021.  A note on categories: where we once listed Ethereum 1.0/1.x or Ethereum 2.0, you'll now see "Execution Layer" and "Consensus Layer" respectively. This is part of a broader effort to...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devconnect: 18-25 April 2022 in Amsterdam]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/02/01/devconnect-dates-and-details</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/02/01/devconnect-dates-and-details</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In our last post, we outlined Devconnect as a week-long gathering that will feature independent Ethereum events, which aim to bring the Ethereum community together in smaller groups to talk, learn about, or make serious progress on specific subjects. Learn more at Devconnect.org...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: December 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/01/31/esp-roundup-december-2021</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/01/31/esp-roundup-december-2021</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 33]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/01/31/finalized-no-33</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/01/31/finalized-no-33</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  Merge progress -- minor spec updates, engineering full steam ahead 🚂 No progress in client diversity. Be selfish, run a minority client!...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/01/24/the-great-eth2-renaming</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2022/01/24/the-great-eth2-renaming</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol to scale to meet global demand while improving security and decentralization. Beyond protocol development, a critical shift in Ethereum has been the movement away from ‘Eth1’ and ‘Eth2’ terminology. As of late 2021, core developers stopped using the...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the KZG Ceremony]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/01/16/announcing-kzg-ceremony</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2023/01/16/announcing-kzg-ceremony</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[High fees have made life difficult for travelers through these Dark Forests. The Pools of Mem once clouded, now clarified by the filter of 1559, reveal that they are not deep enough to sustain.  Legends tell of a society flourishing under the abundance brought about by DankShard, of giant...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Roundup]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/22/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2021-pt-3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/22/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2021-pt-3</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We all have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season, from the first birthday of the beacon chain, to the successful upgrades over the past year and the incredible progress across the entire Ethereum ecosystem.  As a highly productive year draws to a close, there are a...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Kintsugi Merge Testnet]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/20/kintsugi-merge-testnet</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/20/kintsugi-merge-testnet</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since returning from the Amphora merge workshop, client teams have been hard at work implementing the latest versions of merge specifications and testing them on devnets.  After four ephemeral devnets, Kintsugi 🍵, a longer-lived public testnet, is now live!  Although client development and UX continue to be refined,...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[An update on Devcon 6, and something new...]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/13/announcing-devconnect</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/13/announcing-devconnect</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s been a little while, and we’ve got some news....]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Client Incentive Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/13/client-incentive-program</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/13/client-incentive-program</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Note: this post was updated on April 4, 2022 to include a full copy of the Client Incentive Program details.  A diverse set of clients is key to the Ethereum network's health and decentralization. Diversity ensures that innovation continues at the base layer of the protocol, that the network...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Spotlight on Kenya: Microinsurance for Every Farmer]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/07/fellows-spotlight-on-kenya</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/07/fellows-spotlight-on-kenya</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In Sub-Saharan Africa, only 3% of 48 million smallholder farmers are insured. Owning 1 acre of land and earning approximately $1.40 per person per day characterize a smallholder farmer. Smallholder farmers often own a mixture of cash crops and subsistence or non-commercial farming; and, they lack the financial and technological...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Verkle tree structure]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/02/verkle-tree-structure</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/12/02/verkle-tree-structure</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A Verkle tree is a commitment scheme that works similar to a Merkle tree, but has much smaller witnesses. It works by replacing the hashes in a Merkle tree with a vector commitment, which makes wider branching factors more efficient.  Thanks to Kevaundray Wedderburn for feedback on the post....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How The Merge Impacts Ethereum’s Application Layer]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/29/how-the-merge-impacts-app-layer</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/29/how-the-merge-impacts-app-layer</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum's transition to proof of stake -- The Merge -- is near: devnets are being stood up, specifications are being finalized and community outreach has begun in earnest. The Merge is designed to have minimal impact on how Ethereum operates for end users, smart contracts and dapps. That said, there...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update on the partnership between EF and UNICEF]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/24/ef-unicef-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/24/ef-unicef-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since 2019, we have supported UNICEF’s CryptoFund with recurring contributions, and we are excited about our most recent donation too. Today, I would like to share the story of our journey together, to recognize some of the achievements of our partnership, and to speak a bit more about what’s next....]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 32]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/22/finalized-no-32</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/22/finalized-no-32</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  Kintsugi🍵 in progress -- testnet to come Stakers must upgrade for Arrow Glacier...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Grants for Advocacy Non-Profits]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/16/advocacy-grants</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/16/advocacy-grants</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation is allocating 1 million USD in grant funding to organizations that educate governments and policymakers about Ethereum and blockchain technology. We encourage others in the Ethereum community to support their important work....]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Arrow Glacier Upgrade Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/10/arrow-glacier-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/10/arrow-glacier-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 13,773,000, which is predicted to occur on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones. Please upgrade your node before Sunday, December 5, 2021 to account for the...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update: Q2 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/04/esp-allocation-update-q2-2021</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/04/esp-allocation-update-q2-2021</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's that time again - our Q2 grantee lineup is coming right up.  But before we get to that: ESP is hiring a Team Lead! We're looking for someone organized, innovative, and passionate about Ethereum. If you think you might be the right person to lead a small but...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Devcon Archive V2]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/03/devcon-archive-v2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/03/devcon-archive-v2</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Devcon is coming in 2022 (along with something new 🤫), but ahead of our next event updates, we invite you to check out a completely refreshed Devcon archive....]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 31]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/02/finalized-no-31</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/11/02/finalized-no-31</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This issue of Finalized is dedicated to the contextualization of a recently published paper describing three possible attacks on Ethereum's proof-of-stake algorithm.  tl;dr These are serious attacks with a formally-analyzed, technically-simple mitigation. A fix will be rolled out prior to the Merge and will not delay Merge timelines....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: September 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/22/esp-grantee-roundup-sep-21</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/22/esp-grantee-roundup-sep-21</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 30]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/19/finalized-no-30</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/19/finalized-no-30</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  Altair is fast approaching. Upgrade your nodes! Now!...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Amphora: A Major Merge Milestone]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/15/amphora-merge-milestone</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/15/amphora-merge-milestone</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, the Rayonism hackathon kicked off to protoype the architecture for Ethereum's transition to proof of stake. The transition, often refered to as The Merge, will keep the existing beacon chain (eth2) and execution layer (eth1) clients, and "merge" both chains by making the beacon chain drive the...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Altair Mainnet Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/05/altair-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/05/altair-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Altair beacon chain upgrade is ready to be activated on the Ethereum mainnet. The upgrade will go live at epoch 74240 (Oct 27, 2021, 10:56:23am UTC)....]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum.org Translation Program: Milestones and Updates]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/04/translation-program-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/10/04/translation-program-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The ethereum.org Translation Program has been live for over two years, and we are excited to share a couple of milestones we have hit since its inception, as well as some of our plans for the future.  Since we launched the initiative in 2019, over 2,000 community members have...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 29]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/09/28/finalized-no-29</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/09/28/finalized-no-29</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Altair is here; the Merge is coming.  tl;dr  Altair upgrade epoch set, mainnet client releases in progress 👀 Merge interop spec released. Devnets to follow 🏺...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: August 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/09/22/esp-grantee-roundup-aug-21</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/09/22/esp-grantee-roundup-aug-21</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secured no. 1]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/09/09/secured-no-1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/09/09/secured-no-1</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, we launched a bug bounty program focused on finding issues in the beacon chain specification, and/or in client implementations (Lighthouse, Nimbus, Teku, Prysm etc...). The results (and vulnerability reports) have been enlightening as have the lessons learned while patching potential issues.  In this new series, we...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Core Developer Apprenticeship Program: The Second Cohort]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/09/06/core-dev-apprenticeship-second-cohort</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/09/06/core-dev-apprenticeship-second-cohort</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Does development of the core protocols that power the Ethereum blockchain excite you? Are you interested in getting involved at the most fundemental and technical levels of the Ethereum protocol?  I am excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the second cohort of the Core Developer...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 28]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/08/25/finalized-no-28</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/08/25/finalized-no-28</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Road to Altair edition 🛣⭐️  tl;dr  Pyrmont upgrade successful, scenario testing underway Prater upgrade scheduled for September 2, 12pm UTC Mainnet to follow...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Together: Execution-Layer Client Ecosystem Fundraise]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/08/24/building-together</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/08/24/building-together</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s diverse client ecosystem is at the foundation of all that we’re building together. This includes both execution-layer and consensus-layer clients, both of which are essential parts of Ethereum's post-merge future.  Supporting execution-layer (formerly “Eth1”) clients remains one of the Ethereum Foundation’s highest priorities. These client teams have supported...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Roundup]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/08/12/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2021-pt-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/08/12/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2021-pt-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to London! This is an exciting time for the Ethereum ecosystem, and the pace will only pick up further as we approach Altair and the Merge in the months ahead.  The Beacon Chain now has 6.5+ million Ether staked, and 200K+ active validators online across five clients, and...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: July 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/08/06/esp-grantee-roundup-july-21</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/08/06/esp-grantee-roundup-july-21</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 27]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/07/26/finalized-no-27</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/07/26/finalized-no-27</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  It's time to upgrade for London Merge checklist and draft EIP released Altair devnets launch; clients position themselves for mainnet...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[London Mainnet Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/07/15/london-mainnet-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/07/15/london-mainnet-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Road to Devcon Meetup and Event Grants]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/07/15/r2d-meetup-and-event-grants</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/07/15/r2d-meetup-and-event-grants</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Community organizers are the glue that holds the Ethereum ecosystem together, and whether they're leading large-scale events, local meetups, hackathons or seminars, we might all be wandering in the dark forest of the analog world without them. But where's the fun in relying on chance encounters with kindred spirits identified...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update: Q1 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/07/01/esp-allocation-update-q1-2021</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/07/01/esp-allocation-update-q1-2021</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Happy July! Read on for the list of projects funded in Q1 of this year.  But first: office hours are in session! Signups are open now through this Sunday (July 4) for teams or individuals to request a one-on-one call with the ESP team during the week of July...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[London Testnets Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/06/18/london-testnets-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/06/18/london-testnets-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The long-anticipated London upgrade is now ready for deployement on the Ethereum testnets! The upgrade will first go live on Ropsten, at block 10499401, which is expected to happen around June 24, 2021.  This upgrade follows Berlin, which was activated only a few months ago on the Ethereum mainnet....]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: May 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/06/02/esp-grantee-roundup-may-2021</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/06/02/esp-grantee-roundup-may-2021</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 26]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/25/finalized-no-26</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/25/finalized-no-26</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Steady progress  tl;dr  Altair progress Rayonism wrapped up; The Merge progresses...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Quests along the Road to Devcon]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/19/quests-along-the-road</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/19/quests-along-the-road</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  As the Ethereum ecosystem continues to grow and mature at break-neck speeds, we continue to work hard on delivering an amazing Devcon 6. Though the timing is still unclear as to when we’ll all be able to reunite in Bogota, we want to keep our community involved along...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum's energy usage will soon decrease by ~99.95%]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[TL;DR: Ethereum will use at least ~99.95% less energy post merge.  Ethereum will be completing the transition to Proof-of-Stake in the upcoming months, which brings a myriad of improvements that have been theorized for years. But now that the Beacon chain has been running for a few months, we...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dodging a bullet: Ethereum State Problems]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/18/eth-state-problems</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/18/eth-state-problems</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With this blog post, the intention is to officially disclose a severe threat against the Ethereum platform, which was a clear and present danger up until the Berlin hardfork....]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Core Developer Apprenticeship Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/13/core-dev-apprenticeship</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/13/core-dev-apprenticeship</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Have you have ever been interested in getting involved in the development of the core Ethereum protocols? If so, there is a new program to discuss that's targeted at you. As part of an EF procotol-support initiative, I'm very excited to announce the "Core Developer Apprenticeship Program"....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum for the Next Billion: Announcing the EF Fellowship Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/07/ethereum-for-the-next-billion</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/07/ethereum-for-the-next-billion</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The progress being made in the Ethereum ecosystem lately is really inspiring. Whether you’re excited by the adoption of proof of stake (and a faster, more secure, greener Ethereum), the coming Merge and other big upgrades, or by some of the many applications and solutions that have the power to...]]></description>
            <category>Next Billion</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: April 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/03/esp-grantee-roundup-april-2021</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/05/03/esp-grantee-roundup-april-2021</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/04/26/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2021-pt-1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/04/26/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2021-pt-1</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  The year ahead will be filled with upgrades and big ideas from across the Ethereum ecosystem. Since our last Supported Teams post (which followed the launch of the beacon chain), the network has seen 3.8+ million Ether staked, and 120K+ active validators online across multiple clients.  In...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 25]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/04/02/finalized-no-25</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/04/02/finalized-no-25</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  Rayonism☀️, hacking the Merge together blst security advisory Reminder! Beacon Chain security+testing RfP...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: March 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/04/01/esp-grantee-roundup-march-2021</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/04/01/esp-grantee-roundup-march-2021</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees!...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 24]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/24/finalized-no-24</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/24/finalized-no-24</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  Altair prereleases: Stargazer and Half of 'em just look like dots Security RfP Merge progress...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Supporting Ethereum’s Client Ecosystem]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/23/supporting-ethereums-client-ecosystem</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/23/supporting-ethereums-client-ecosystem</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With the arrival of the beacon chain in 2020, Ethereum today supports two types of clients: those focusing on the execution-layer (often referred to as eth1) and those powering the proof-of-stake consensus layer (aka eth2). As those running validators are well aware (since they run both client types), each serves...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update: Q4 2020]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/22/esp-allocation-update-q4-2020</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/22/esp-allocation-update-q4-2020</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[2021 is just getting started, but it's already been quite an eventful year! We've got the list of Q4 funded projects below, but we also want to share some updates from the ESP team. We're always looking for more ways to support the ecosystem as it grows and evolves, so...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finalized no. 23]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/11/finalized-no-23</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/11/finalized-no-23</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  Finalized: rebranding the blog Upgrade your nodes!...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Berlin Upgrade Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/08/ethereum-berlin-upgrade-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/08/ethereum-berlin-upgrade-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[TL;DR  Berlin is ready to be deployed! We're moving fast: the first testnet to upgrade, Ropsten, is scheduled to upgrade on March 10th. Mainnet is scheduled for April 15th. If you are running an Ethereum node, you should upgrade it to a Berlin-compatible version ASAP for testnets and before...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Local Grants Honduras & Colombia Roundup]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/04/local-grants-honduras-colombia-roundup</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/04/local-grants-honduras-colombia-roundup</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum is very much a global community, but within that larger ecosystem lives a vast and vibrant web of local, grassroots communities.  These local community nodes are a Schelling point>) for thousands of Ethereans, often organized around a shared geography, language, or on-the-ground meetup. They're also a gateway for...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geth v1.10.0]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/03/geth-v1-10-0</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/03/geth-v1-10-0</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Oh wow, it's been a while... over 1.5 years since we've released Geth v1.9.0. We did do 26 point releases in that time frame (about one per three weeks), but pushing out a major release is always a bit more special. The adrenaline rush of shipping new features, coupled with...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: February 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/01/esp-grantee-february-21</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/03/01/esp-grantee-february-21</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This month, we've got the latest on from two groups doing great work to grow the Ethereum ecosystem!...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 22]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/02/11/eth2-quick-update-no-22</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/02/11/eth2-quick-update-no-22</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  Successful R&D workshop on future beacon chain upgrades Staking community grants announced Quick plug for my State of Eth2, Jan 2021 post...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Staking community grantee announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/02/09/esp-staking-community-grantee-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/02/09/esp-staking-community-grantee-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We're excited to announce the grantees selected for the recent staking community grants round.  This grants round invited proposals that make the Ethereum staking experience easier, safer, and more secure. We were thrilled to see all of the great work proposed by these teams, and we're looking forward to...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: January 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/01/29/esp-grantee-january-21</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/01/29/esp-grantee-january-21</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Our intrepid grantees have been keeping busy as always - read on for some recent accomplishments 🏆...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Long(er) road to Devcon]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/01/26/the-longer-road-to-devcon</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/01/26/the-longer-road-to-devcon</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  In the time since the last Devcon announcement, the state of the Ethereum ecosystem has been electric. We’ve realized critical milestones on the Eth2 roadmap, as well as countless breakthroughs and major progress by teams across the ecosystem. We are incredibly excited to celebrate these achievements with all...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The State of Eth2, Jan 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/01/20/the-state-of-eth2-january-2021</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2021/01/20/the-state-of-eth2-january-2021</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[At the start of December, the Ethereum community bootstrapped the new beacon chain proof-of-stake consensus mechanism -- the foundation of Ethereum's long-term and sustainable home. The launch was a resounding success, and the operation of the beacon chain has proved, thus far, stable and robust.  As I write these...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup December 2020]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/29/esp-grantee-december-20</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/29/esp-grantee-december-20</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We're here with our last hurrah before we head into 2021 - read on for the latest news on a few grantees!...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum.org Translation Program: Milestones and Updates]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/21/translation-program-milestones-updates-20</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/21/translation-program-milestones-updates-20</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We hope that you are all excited for the upcoming year-end holidays. Today, we've got some exciting new changes to announce for Ethereum.org's Translation Program and some milestones to celebrate.  To start, we can’t thank you enough for all of your support this year. Thanks to you we've been...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Validated, staking on eth2: #6 - Perfect is the enemy of the good]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/10/validated-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-the-good</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/10/validated-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-the-good</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[T'was the day before genesis, when all was prepared, geth was in sync, my beacon node paired. Firewalls configured, VLANs galore, hours of preparation meant nothing ignored.  Then all at once everything went awry, the SSD in my system decided to die. My configs were gone, chain data was...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/09/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2020-pt-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/09/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2020-pt-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  Leaves have fallen for those in the global north, Summer is on the way in the south, and ETH is staked across the globe. The jolliest of holidays has arrived, the birth of the beacon chain. Moreover, incredible progress has been made in recent months by all EF...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[We are sunsetting Studio]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/07/we-are-sunsetting-studio</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/12/07/we-are-sunsetting-studio</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Within the next few weeks, we'll be winding down Ethereum Studio.  Please use this time to download any projects you have saved. To download your project, use the download icon in the file explorer.  If you're looking for another web environment for your Solidity development, we recommend Remix....]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Burden of Proof(s): Code Merkleization]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/30/the-1x-files-code-merkleization</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/30/the-1x-files-code-merkleization</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A note about the Stateless Ethereum initiative: Research activity has (understandably) slowed in the second half of 2020 as all contributors have adjusted to life on the weird timeline. But as the ecosystem moves incrementally closer to Serenity and the Eth1/Eth2 merge, Stateless Ethereum work will become increasingly relevant and...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 21 ]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/27/eth2-quick-update-no-21</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/27/eth2-quick-update-no-21</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Minimum ETH threshold hit 🎉; genesis on December 1st, 12pm UTC Get your nodes running! and monitor updates through genesis 👀...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EthereumJS VM v5 Release]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/26/ethereumjs-vm-v5-release</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/26/ethereumjs-vm-v5-release</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[While everyone is staring in amazement on December 1st, 12pm UTC anticipating the Eth 2.0 Beaconchain genesis, within the JavaScript team we quietly prepared our own little genesis release in the shadows. Being very much around the good ol' Eth 1.0 chain we are nevertheless very much excited on this...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Allocation Update: Q3 2020]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/25/esp-q3-updates</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/25/esp-q3-updates</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's quarterly update time again! The big news is is the Q3 grantees, of course, but we always like to share what else the ESP team has been up to. A few things we've knocked out lately:  Added a Guide to ESP on our website. Here you'll find details...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grantee Roundup: November 2020]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/18/esp-grantee-roundup-november-2020</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/18/esp-grantee-roundup-november-2020</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's always fun to hear about new grants as they're awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we'll check in on projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees!  Where...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Medalla data challenge results]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/17/medalla-data-challenge-results</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/17/medalla-data-challenge-results</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The EF is excited to announce the results of the Medalla data challenge, a data hackathon focused on the Medalla testnet ✨  The prompt was open-ended: we asked for data tools, visualizations, and analyses of testnet data; in short, anything that would help the community make sense of all...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 20]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/13/eth2-quick-update-no-20</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/13/eth2-quick-update-no-20</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[tl;dr  Staking community grants v1.0 eth2 testnets -- Toledo and Pyrmont Mainnet deposits to 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geth security release]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/12/geth-security-release</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/12/geth-security-release</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 19]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/04/eth2-quick-update-no-19</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/11/04/eth2-quick-update-no-19</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Contract deployment Genesis deposits Bootstrap consensus  tl;dr v1.0 specs released 🚀...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing the new ethereum.org developer portal]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/10/22/introducing-the-new-developer-portal</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/10/22/introducing-the-new-developer-portal</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 18]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/10/01/eth2-quick-update-no-18</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/10/01/eth2-quick-update-no-18</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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!...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 17]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/09/22/eth2-quick-update-no-17</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/09/22/eth2-quick-update-no-17</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[📣 Last chance to practice genesis before mainnet 📣  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 🚀...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 16]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/09/14/eth2-quick-update-no-16</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/09/14/eth2-quick-update-no-16</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 💥...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Q2 Allocation Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/09/08/esp-q2-updates</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/09/08/esp-q2-updates</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 published a...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 15]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/09/01/eth2-quick-update-no-15</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/09/01/eth2-quick-update-no-15</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Stateless Tech Tree: reGenesis Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/24/the-1x-files-tech-tree-regenesis</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/24/the-1x-files-tech-tree-regenesis</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 tech tree is Alexey's reGenesis proposal. This is far...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Validated, staking on eth2: #5 - Why client diversity matters]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/21/validated-why-client-diversity-matters</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/21/validated-why-client-diversity-matters</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[\*Disclaimer: None of this is meant as a slight against any client in particular. There is a high likelihood that each client and possibly even the specification has its own oversights and bugs. Eth2 is a complicated protocol, and the people implementing it are only human. The point of this...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[ESP: Beyond Grants]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/19/esp-beyond-grants</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/19/esp-beyond-grants</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since transitioning into the Ecosystem Support Program from EF Grants, we’ve talked about defining “support” more comprehensively, thinking beyond simple grant funding. But what does a more comprehensive definition of support actually mean?  In practice, it means something different for every project, and it starts with a conversation. ESP...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Devcon Improvement Proposals (DIPs)]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/14/announcing-devcon-improvement-proposals</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/14/announcing-devcon-improvement-proposals</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 tool to involve collaborative community input...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Development update #4 – ethereum.org]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/05/ethereum-dot-org-development-update-4</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/05/ethereum-dot-org-development-update-4</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 14]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/03/eth2-quick-update-no-14</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/08/03/eth2-quick-update-no-14</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[All eyes on Medalla testnet -- genesis in less than 24 hours 👀  tl;dr  Medalla testnet launches August 4th at 1pm UTC New multi-client attacknet is up with new challenges and larger bounties...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum turns 5 🎂]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/30/ethereum-turns-5</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/30/ethereum-turns-5</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 anniversary of Ethereum's launch just how unbelievably far...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum.org Translation Program: Milestone and Updates]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/29/ethdotorg-translation-milestone</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/29/ethdotorg-translation-milestone</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Your browser does not support the video tag.    Today we’re excited to celebrate a huge milestone - Ethereum.org now supports 30 languages! 🎉🎉🎉  Since we launched the Website Translation Program seven months ago, we’ve se...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: GHOST in the Stack Machine]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/28/the-1x-files-ghost-in-the-stack-machine</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/28/the-1x-files-ghost-in-the-stack-machine</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 rapidly.  Even assuming one has a strong grasp on proof-of-work, it's not...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 validator launchpad 🚀]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/27/eth2-validator-launchpad</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/27/eth2-validator-launchpad</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 deposits into, the upcoming Medalla multi-client testnet....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 13]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/23/eth2-quick-update-no-13</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/23/eth2-quick-update-no-13</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Testnets, testnets, testnets!  tl;dr  Medalla multi-client testnet launch date set 🚀 Initial beta attacknets are up. Calling all whitehats 👩‍🍳 Exciting progress on the eth1+eth2 merger 👊...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ask about Geth: Snapshot acceleration]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/17/ask-about-geth-snapshot-acceleration</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/17/ask-about-geth-snapshot-acceleration</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[\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 the legacy structure?\...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 12]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/06/23/eth2-quick-update-no-12</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/06/23/eth2-quick-update-no-12</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As always, a lot continues to happen on the eth2 front. Aside from written updates (check out the State of Eth2 post below) and other public summaries, client teams, contributors, and community members/prospective-validators have been busy!  Today, we'll cover some significant deposit contract news, and big steps toward implementation...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: EIP 1559 and the Ethereum Improvement Horizon]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/06/16/eth1x-1559</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/06/16/eth1x-1559</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I've been thinking recently about post-apocalyptic wastelands. Specifically, about this scene from Mad Max: Fury Road, when the main characters have just escaped the first wave of pursuit, and are staying ahead of their would-be captors. They need to keep moving, but still need to do maintenance on the centerpiece...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The State of Eth2, June 2020]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/06/02/the-state-of-eth2-june-2020</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/06/02/the-state-of-eth2-june-2020</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A huge thank you for excellent input and feedback from Sacha Saint-Leger, Joseph Schweitzer, Josh Stark, and protolambda.  I spend a lot of my time explaining and answering questions about eth2, and I mean a lot. Some of this on a deep and technical level as I help communicate...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon: Hacia Colombia en 2021]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/28/devcon-hacia-colombia-en-2021</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/28/devcon-hacia-colombia-en-2021</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Queridos Amigos,  In our most recent update, we outlined what Devcon is all about and spoke to our renewed focus on growing the Ethereum ecosystem. Part of that focus is on making sure that, for all types of attendees, the next Devcon is all that we dream for it...]]></description>
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            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Validated, staking on eth2: #4 - Keys 🔑]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/21/keys</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/21/keys</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Danny Ryan for their review.  At the core of every Proof of Stake system is a signature scheme. Signatures are used to verify the identity of each validator allowing their actions, both good and bad, to be attributed to them.  We...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation 2020 Spring Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/19/ethereum-foundation-spring-2020-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/19/ethereum-foundation-spring-2020-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[To the users and the builders,  We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Ethereum’s future is bright, and this year we are seeing much of that future come to life as the Ethereum ecosystem builds on a foundation laid by dedicated research and development over the last...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ecosystem Support Program: Allocation Update, Q1 2020]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/07/ecosystem-support-program-allocation-update-q1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/07/ecosystem-support-program-allocation-update-q1</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ecosystem Support Program is an arm of the Ethereum Foundation dedicated to providing financial and non-financial support to projects working to help Ethereum grow and thrive.  We recently published an update detailing how the Ecosystem Support Program spent 2019, and how we allocated financial support throughout the year....]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 11]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/06/eth2-quick-update-no-11</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/06/eth2-quick-update-no-11</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We've all been pretty busy with all the things! I'll try to keep these posts rolling out, but in the meantime, be sure to checkout Ben Edgington's What's New in Eth2 to get your fix.  Tune into Ethereal Virtual Summit this Thursday and Friday! It's full of excellent eth2...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Development Update #3 - Ethereum.org]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/05/ethereum-org-development-update-3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/05/ethereum-org-development-update-3</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey Ethereum! Here’s the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: A Primer for the Witness Specification]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/04/eth1x-witness-primer</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/05/04/eth1x-witness-primer</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since a lot of us have a bit more time on our hands, I thought now might be a good opportunity to proceed with something perhaps a little bit boring and tedious, but nevertheless quite fundamental to the Stateless Ethereum effort: understanding the formal Witness Specification.  Like the captain...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/04/14/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2020-pt-1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/04/14/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2020-pt-1</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  From our team to you and yours, we hope everyone and their families are well and keeping safe during these complicated weeks. To help pass some time while we’re all stuck in doors, it’s time again to update the community on progress made by some of the EF-supported...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: The Updated Stateless Tech Tree]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/04/02/eth1x-stateless-tech-tree</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/04/02/eth1x-stateless-tech-tree</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ecosystem Support Program: Allocation Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/04/01/ecosystem-support-program-allocation-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/04/01/ecosystem-support-program-allocation-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As we embark on a new decade(!), the Ecosystem Support Program team wanted to speak to some of the recent growth, transition and learning around the program, and share details of our 2019 financial allocations....]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 10]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/31/eth2-quick-update-no-10</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/31/eth2-quick-update-no-10</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Have some fun announcements for y'all this week :)  Other than the items below, client teams continue to move toward production. More on that next week!  tl;dr  Least Authority Phase 0 audit complete Phase 0 Pre-Launch Bounty Program 🐛 Unification of eth1+eth2 communications in the Eth R&D...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing the Devcon Archive (and an event update)]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/30/introducing-the-devcon-archive</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/30/introducing-the-devcon-archive</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  Out of respect for those within our own community and around us currently facing the ongoing global health crisis, our team has decided to temporarily hold scheduled Devcon announcements, first teased in our last post. In the meantime we wanted to share something else that we’ve been working...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Validated, staking on eth2: #3 - Sharding Consensus]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/27/sharding-consensus</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/27/sharding-consensus</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Joseph Schweitzer for review.  Sharding is one of the many improvements that eth2 has over eth1. The term was borrowed from database research where a shard means a piece of a larger whole. In the context of databases and eth2, sharding means...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Development Update #2 - Ethereum.org]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/20/ethereum-org-development-update-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/20/ethereum-org-development-update-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey Ethereum! Here’s the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 9]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/17/eth2-quick-update-no-9</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/17/eth2-quick-update-no-9</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Strange times. I hope you are all well and continue to take care of yourselves, your families, and your communities.  We're a bit overdue on a quick update. My apologies. I'll keep them coming at a regular clip after this one. Eth2 is looking good -- Phase 0 is...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: Stateless Summit Summary]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/12/eth1x-files-stateless-summit-summary</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/12/eth1x-files-stateless-summit-summary</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon: What is Ahead]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/02/devcon-whats-ahead</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/03/02/devcon-whats-ahead</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: February call digest]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/02/28/eth1x-files-digest-no-3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/02/28/eth1x-files-digest-no-3</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: The State(lessness) of the Union]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/02/18/eth1x-files-the-statelessness-of-the-union</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/02/18/eth1x-files-the-statelessness-of-the-union</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The next Stateless Ethereum research call is coming up in less than a week! The telegram chat now has hundreds of messages to catch up on, and only a small portion of the topics discussed have made it into the ethresearch forums.  This post is just a quick primer...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Validated, staking on eth2: #2 - Two ghosts in a trench coat]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/02/12/validated-staking-on-eth2-2-two-ghosts-in-a-trench-coat</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/02/12/validated-staking-on-eth2-2-two-ghosts-in-a-trench-coat</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Danny Ryan for review.  In this installment, we'll discuss the consensus mechanisms behind eth2. Eth2 has a novel approach to deciding which block is the head of the chain, along with which blocks are and are not a part of the chain....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 8]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/02/04/eth2-quick-update-no-8</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/02/04/eth2-quick-update-no-8</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Keep it coming  tldr;  Audit and formal verification of deposit contract bytecode completed by Runtime Verification The word of the month is "optimization" Ongoing Phase 2 research driven by Quilt and eWASM. Welcome TXRX to the table Whiteblock releases [gossipsub testing results](https://github.com/wh...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Solidity 0.6.x features: try/catch statement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/29/solidity-0-6-try-catch</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/29/solidity-0-6-try-catch</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The try/catch syntax introduced in 0.6.0 is arguably the biggest leap in error handling capabilities in Solidity, since reason strings for revert and require were released in v0.4.22. Both try and catch have been reserved keywords since v0.5.9 and now we can use them to handle failures in external function...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: The Stateless Ethereum Tech Tree]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/28/eth1x-files-the-stateless-ethereum-tech-tree</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/28/eth1x-files-the-stateless-ethereum-tech-tree</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I started to write a post that detailed a "roadmap" for Ethereum 1.x research and the path to stateless Ethereum, and realized that it's not actually a roadmap at all —— at least not in the sense we're used to seeing from something like a product or company. The 1.x...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: January call digest]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/17/eth1x-files-digest-no-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/17/eth1x-files-digest-no-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 7]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/16/eth2-quick-update-no-7</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/16/eth2-quick-update-no-7</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first eth2 quick update of 2020! This is going to be an exciting year.  tldr;  Release of v0.10.0 spec as stable target for multi-client testnets and security reviews @paulhauner and @sigp_io team hard at work building Lighthouse Relaunch of [...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Validated, staking on eth2: #1 - Incentives]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/13/validated-staking-on-eth2-1-incentives</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/13/validated-staking-on-eth2-1-incentives</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thanks to Joseph Schweitzer and Danny Ryan for review.  Welcome back! Having discussed eth2's design philosophy last time, today's focus is on eth2's incentives through the lens of that philosophy. More specifically, we look at the incentives effecting eth2 and how they are realised in the form of rewards,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update on the Vyper Compiler]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/08/update-on-the-vyper-compiler</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/08/update-on-the-vyper-compiler</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The idea behind the Vyper Project was to develop something that was designed at the language level to naturally exhibit a high degree of safety. The project was originally authored by Vitalik as a proof-of-concept replacement for Serpent, its predecessor, but shortly after its creation Vyper found itself without a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: The State of Stateless Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/30/eth1x-files-state-of-stateless-ethereum</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/30/eth1x-files-state-of-stateless-ethereum</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the last edition of The 1.x files, we did a quick re-cap of where the Eth 1.x research initiative came from, what's at stake, and what some possible solutions are. We ended with the concept of stateless ethereum, and left a more detailed examination of the stateless client for...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/23/ethereum-muir-glacier-upgrade-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/23/ethereum-muir-glacier-upgrade-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,200,000, which is predicted to occur on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: December call digest]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/20/eth1x-files-digest-no-1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/20/eth1x-files-digest-no-1</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 6]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/19/eth2-quick-update-no-6</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/19/eth2-quick-update-no-6</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this week's eth2 quick update! A handful of new eth2 testnets have come online and last week I had them all running on my laptop. There is still plenty of work to be done, but this is getting real :).  tldr;  Announcing comprehensive Phase 0 spec...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 1.x Files: a fast-sync]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/10/eth1x-files-fast-sync</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/10/eth1x-files-fast-sync</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 5]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/05/eth2-quick-update-no-5</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/05/eth2-quick-update-no-5</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this week's eth2 quick update!  tldr;  Parity's Shasper joins Prysmatic's Sapphire testnet (the first public eth2 multi-client testnet)! Multiple eth2 block explorers launch -- Bitfly's beaconcha.in and Etherscan First eth2 networking call to tackle all the networkings -- Ben's notes and [Mamy's notes](https://gist.gi...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/03/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2019-pt-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/12/03/ef-supported-teams-research-and-development-update-2019-pt-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  Since the last EF-Supported Teams report, progress has been made across the board. From improved network conditions, to the coming Istanbul release and Eth1.x and Eth2 development, all areas core to the functionality and sustainability of Ethereum are advancing.  This series focuses on teams and efforts from...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Validated: Staking on eth2 #0]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/27/validated-staking-on-eth2-no-0</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/27/validated-staking-on-eth2-no-0</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thanks to Danny and Joe for review.  As the launch of the beacon chain grows nearer and eth2 becomes ever more final, the time has come to fast-sync the community with the latest on the inner workings of eth2 and on the concrete requirements, incentives and experience of being...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 4]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/21/eth2-quick-update-no-4</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/21/eth2-quick-update-no-4</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the fourth installment of eth2 quick update. There are a lot of moving pieces to talk about this week. Other than the heroic eth2 client development going on, these are the highlights:  tldr;  Grant to Sigma Prime for eth2 differential fuzzing Light Client Task Force is...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Istanbul Upgrade Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/20/ethereum-istanbul-upgrade-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/20/ethereum-istanbul-upgrade-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,069,000, which is predicted to occur on Saturday, December 7, 2019. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ecosystem Support Program call for applications]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/19/ecosystem-support-program-call-for-applications</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/19/ecosystem-support-program-call-for-applications</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing a Taiwan-specific Wave of Grants]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/14/announcing-a-taiwan-specific-wave</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/14/announcing-a-taiwan-specific-wave</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Taipei Ethereum Meetup recently hosted Crosslink Taiwan 2019. It was a wonderful event and a perfect opportunity for the Ethereum Foundation's Ecosystem Support Program (ESP) to provide a Taiwan-specific wave of grants! The recipients are as follows....]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Development Update #1 - Ethereum.org]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/12/ethereum-org-development-update-no-1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/12/ethereum-org-development-update-no-1</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 3]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/08/eth2-quick-update-no-3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/08/eth2-quick-update-no-3</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the third installment of eth2 quick update.  tldr;  Harden fork choice defences in response to audits Introducing challenges.ethereum.org Herumi grant for a super-fast BLS implementation...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Eth2 at ETHWaterloo: Prizes for Eth2 education, tooling, and research]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/04/eth2-at-ethwaterloo</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/11/04/eth2-at-ethwaterloo</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, the Ethereum Foundation will be sponsoring a range of hacker prizes related to Eth2 at a major hackathon.  With Eth2 development proceeding rapidly, there are now many discrete areas of work that a team of motivated hackers can complete over a weekend. The bounties...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update no. 2]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/10/31/eth2-quick-update-no-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/10/31/eth2-quick-update-no-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the second installment of eth2 quick update.  tldr;  Spec release of v0.9.0 -- Tonkatsu to ensure Phase 0 development can continue unimpeded. Work continues in ironing out the details of the modified Phase 1 proposal. Quiet client development focused on eth1 -> eth2 infrastructure, general hardening...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[eth2 quick update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/10/23/eth2-quick-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/10/23/eth2-quick-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Although the internet has been more quiet than usual, we've been super busy hacking away on eth2! Between Devcon5 and keeping our heads down to work, it seems we've left the community in the dark on a couple of items. Here's a quick update to fill in the gaps....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Devcon5 Bible]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/10/03/the-devcon5-bible</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/10/03/the-devcon5-bible</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to Devcon.  We've got a lot to cover, and in this post you'll read about it all! Read closely as we go over transit to the venue from Osaka's airports, the Devcon Venue, the Agenda & Devcon App, and more!  Please bookmark this piece to answer all...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon5 Schedule, Sponsors and Speakers are online NOW!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/26/devcon-speaker-release</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/26/devcon-speaker-release</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Devcon season is finally here. Days from now, Devcon participants from across the world will begin to make their way to Osaka, and as we approach the final countdown, we’ve made number BIG online releases at Devcon.org!  We invite everyone to meet the incredible class of Devcon presenters! Now...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Eth2 Interop in Review]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/19/eth2-interop-in-review</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/19/eth2-interop-in-review</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Last week, seven of the eight Eth2 clients under active development succeeded in marking the major milestone of moving from single-client to multi-client testnets at the "Interop Lock-in". With this exciting success in Eth2 development, we wanted to reflect on how this point was reached and on what it means...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Development Update #0 - Ethereum.org]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/18/development-update-no-0-ethereum-org</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/18/development-update-no-0-ethereum-org</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first development update for Ethereum.org, the first of a regular series of blog posts keeping the community up to date on the website's progress....]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon On-Chain Raffle & Auction Participants]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/12/devcon-on-chain-raffle-and-auction-participants</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/12/devcon-on-chain-raffle-and-auction-participants</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With the the first-ever on-chain Devcon ticket distributions now behind us, it's time to talk ticket distribution for all participants!  First, we'd like to offer a sincere "Thank you" to everyone that participated in these first trial rounds for on-chain Devcon ticketing. Thanks to your support, we're confident in...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Live: Devcon5 Final Ticket Appeals]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/03/live-devcon5-final-ticket-appeals</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/09/03/live-devcon5-final-ticket-appeals</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is it: Final appeals are the last way to book your ticket to Osaka for Devcon 5  Note: All participants in the on-chain Devcon Ticket Raffle and Auction will receive an NFT-ticket to Devcon5! In the next days, your ERC-721 and will be issued to the addresses used...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Ethereum Foundation and Co-Funded Grants]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/26/announcing-ethereum-foundation-and-co-funded-grants</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/26/announcing-ethereum-foundation-and-co-funded-grants</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are today unveiling over $2M USD in Foundation-led and co-funded grant funding aimed at furthering Serenity (Eth2.0) development as we move nearer to the launch of the Beacon Chain....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon5 On-Chain Ticket Sale]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/22/devcon5-on-chain-ticket-sale</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/22/devcon5-on-chain-ticket-sale</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the last few months, we've been coordinating with the talented team over at ether.cards to bring an NFT-based on-chain ticketing solution to the Ethereum community in time for Devcon5.  This experiment will take place in two parts, with a raffle and an auction with proceeds donated to the...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Devcon Scholars Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/20/announcing-the-devcon-scholars-program</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/20/announcing-the-devcon-scholars-program</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome!  The Devcon Scholars Program is an Ethereum Foundation initiative designed to provide an opportunity for Ethereum ecosystem-members from underserved communities, unique circumstances, or developing areas to attend the largest annual gathering in the Ethereum ecosystem.  Now in its second year, the Devcon Scholars Program provides full scholarships...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Translating Ethereum for our Global Community]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/20/translating-ethereum-for-our-global-community</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/20/translating-ethereum-for-our-global-community</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are happy to announce the launch of a large-scale translation program for Ethereum.org, which will translate the website and other resources into more than 15 languages.  Ethereum is a global project, and it is critical that Ethereum.org reflect our worldwide community. Since the website’s relaunch, our team has...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon Tickets: Wave 3 and beyond]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/14/devcon-tickets-wave-three-and-beyond</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/08/14/devcon-tickets-wave-three-and-beyond</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[各位,  We are now fewer than 60 days away from Devcon, and we wanted to provide important updates and further details about how to obtain remaining Devcon tickets for everyone looking to join us in Osaka.  First, save the date: Wave 3 of Devcon ticket sales will take...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon updates: Announcing Wave 2, a New Application window, and more!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/07/29/devcon-updates-announcing-wave-2-a-new-application-window-and-more</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/07/29/devcon-updates-announcing-wave-2-a-new-application-window-and-more</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[各位,  With well under three months to go until Devcon, we are moving at full speed toward Osaka!  You'll hear about first programming details and more in the coming days, and with ticket sales now underway, we thought it time for a more formal update!  First, Wave...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Wave 1 and Devcon Ticketing]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/07/15/on-wave-one-and-devcon-ticketing</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/07/15/on-wave-one-and-devcon-ticketing</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[By now, we hope you've heard the news: In just two days, on July 17, 2019, the first wave of general Devcon tickets will go online at 6:00am PT / 9:00am ET / 3:00pm CEST / 10:00pm JST.  Today, we wanted to bring everyone a few details on the...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geth v1.9.0]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/07/10/geth-v1-9-0</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/07/10/geth-v1-9-0</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After many months of silence, we're proud to announce the v1.9.0 release of Go Ethereum! Although this release has been in the making for a lot longer than we anticipated, we're confident there will be some juicy feature for everyone to enjoy!  **Warning: We've tried our best to squash...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Solidity Storage Array Bugs]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/06/25/solidity-storage-array-bugs</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/06/25/solidity-storage-array-bugs</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[EF-Supported Teams: Development Report]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/06/21/ef-supported-teams-development-report-2019-pt-1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/06/21/ef-supported-teams-development-report-2019-pt-1</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  Over the last year, developers and researchers supported by Ethereum Foundation have kept their heads down and continued to produce at a staggering pace.  Their focus has remained on their work, and together we're all building a more complete Ethereum. Today, our regular all-team update series is...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon in Osaka: Applications now open!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/06/10/devcon-in-osaka-applications-now-open</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/06/10/devcon-in-osaka-applications-now-open</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  The year is well underway, cherry blossoms have fallen, and Devcon is quickly approaching!  As announced on-stage at Ethereal last month, Devcon will be returning to Asia in 2019. We hope that you'll join us this October 8th-11th as we come together in Osaka, Japan!  Without...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation Spring 2019 Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/05/21/ethereum-foundation-spring-2019-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/05/21/ethereum-foundation-spring-2019-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beginning a new ethereum.org]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/04/30/beginning-a-new-ethereum-org</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/04/30/beginning-a-new-ethereum-org</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hello, world!  Welcome to the new ethereum.org.  This is the beginning of the ethereum.org relaunch, not the end. As explained in more detail below, the new website is intentionally a work in progress. It’s launching as an experiment, intended to grow and iterate in public as it is...]]></description>
            <category>Ethereum.org</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Solidity Optimizer and ABIEncoderV2 Bug]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/03/26/solidity-optimizer-and-abiencoderv2-bug</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/03/26/solidity-optimizer-and-abiencoderv2-bug</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Constantinople/St. Petersburg Upgrade Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/02/22/ethereum-constantinople-st-petersburg-upgrade-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/02/22/ethereum-constantinople-st-petersburg-upgrade-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 7,280,000, which is predicted to occur on Thursday, February 28, 2019. The exact date is subject to change depending on block times between now and then and could be activated 1-2 days before or after. A countdown timer...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation Grants Program Wave 5]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/02/21/ethereum-foundation-grants-program-wave-5</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/02/21/ethereum-foundation-grants-program-wave-5</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation Grants Program is an ongoing and continually improving experiment into how the EF can best invest the Ethereum community’s resources for the highest long-term impact on the Ethereum ecosystem. When the Grants Program began in early 2018, the core focus was on supporting scalability efforts. This focus...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert: Ethereum Constantinople Postponement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/01/15/security-alert-ethereum-constantinople-postponement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/01/15/security-alert-ethereum-constantinople-postponement</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Core Developers and the Ethereum Security Community were made aware of the potential Constantinople-related issues identified by ChainSecurity on January 15, 2019. We are investigating any potential vulnerabilities and will follow with updates in this blog post and across social media channels.  Out of an abundance of...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Constantinople Upgrade Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/01/11/ethereum-constantinople-upgrade-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/01/11/ethereum-constantinople-upgrade-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing an Ethereum Foundation Grant to Parity Technologies]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/01/07/announcing-an-ethereum-foundation-grant-to-parity-technologies</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2019/01/07/announcing-an-ethereum-foundation-grant-to-parity-technologies</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation is thrilled to announce a scalability, usability and security grant of five million dollars (USD) to Parity Technologies.  For several years, Parity Technologies has been an invaluable member of the Ethereum ecosystem for their leadership in core development efforts, their Parity Ethereum client and more. Their...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Call for Submissions! DApps Solving Real-World Issues]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/12/19/call-for-submissions-dapps-solving-real-world-issues</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/12/19/call-for-submissions-dapps-solving-real-world-issues</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon4 Videos and Pictures Released!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/12/10/devcon4-videos-and-pictures-released</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/12/10/devcon4-videos-and-pictures-released</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We're happy to announce that the presentation videos from Devcon4 are now available for viewing!  As promised, we recorded sessions from the following rooms: Spectrum (Main Stage), Prism (Side Stage), Radiant Orchid (Breakout Room), and Ultra Violet (Breakout Room).  This year you have two viewing options: SlidesLive and...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the Ethereum Foundation grants program makes decisions]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/10/24/how-the-ethereum-foundation-grants-program-makes-decisions</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/10/24/how-the-ethereum-foundation-grants-program-makes-decisions</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Our goal on the grants team is to be faithful stewards of Ethereum community resources. As part of the Ethereum Foundation's ongoing effort to diffuse power throughout our community, we give grants that we believe will return the highest impact on the Ethereum ecosystem over the long-term....]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Our dc⟠ıv Sponsors and Supporters!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/10/18/announcing-our-dciv-sponsors-and-supporters</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/10/18/announcing-our-dciv-sponsors-and-supporters</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Přátelé,  Today, we're excited to unveil our Devcon4 Sponsors. Each of this year's six tiers of sponsorship is supporting the Foundation's work in significant and impactful ways. We're thrilled to involve many major and growing teams in Devcon, and to make the most of this opportunity to support the...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave IV]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/10/15/ethereum-foundation-grants-update-wave-4</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/10/15/ethereum-foundation-grants-update-wave-4</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Greetings from the Ethereum Foundation Grants Team!  As we go full steam ahead to Devcon 4, we're back to announce Wave 4 of the Grants Program! Thank you to all the fantastic community members that have applied with creative ideas on how to bolster our ecosystem. We would not...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Solidity Bugfix Release]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/09/13/solidity-bugfix-release</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/09/13/solidity-bugfix-release</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The latest version 0.4.25 release of Solidity fixes two important bugs. Another important bug has already been fixed in version 0.4.22 but it was only discovered recently that the bug existed.  Note that the Ethereum Foundation runs a bounty program for the code generator part of Solidity....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave III]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/08/17/ethereum-foundation-grants-update-wave-3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/08/17/ethereum-foundation-grants-update-wave-3</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We've been hard at work getting to know so many amazing people and projects, and are extremely excited to announce the recipients of the Wave III of the Ethereum Foundation Grants Program!  We kicked off 2018 with a blog post to galvanize scalability research for first and second-layer solutions....]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon4 Call for Participation!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/30/devcon4-call-for-participation</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/30/devcon4-call-for-participation</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When we asked many of you, “What are you most excited for at Devcon4?” most people replied: the people! This is the one time a year we all get together in one place. We don’t want to spend all of our time at Devcon sitting in a dark room, staring...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Answers to your top 3 Devcon4 questions]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/27/answers-to-your-top-3-devcon4-questions</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/27/answers-to-your-top-3-devcon4-questions</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Your friendly Devcon4 planning team, here to answer your top 3 questions:  When’s the next wave of ticket sales?  Mark your calendars! We plan to release the next wave of General Admissions tickets on Tuesday, August 7 at 8AM PST. Anyone who applied for a discount or scholarship...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon4 Application Deadlines Coming Soon]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/19/devcon4-application-deadlines-coming-soon</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/19/devcon4-application-deadlines-coming-soon</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Přátelé. Just a quick update today!  Applications for sponsorships, scholarships, student discounts and builder discounts will be up until 11:59PM PST on July 24th.  After that, there will no longer be a way to submit an application for these tracks. Please note that if you've already submitted an...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Update on Devcon4 Ticket Allocations & Sales]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/17/an-update-on-devcon4-ticket-allocations-and-sales</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/17/an-update-on-devcon4-ticket-allocations-and-sales</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  It has been an exciting week! We initiated our first wave of ticket sales and sold out in just 18 minutes! Don’t worry though, there will be more ticketing waves in addition to a variety of discounts and scholarships that you can still apply for. Transparency and clear...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon4 Ticket Sales]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/03/devcon4-ticket-sales</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/07/03/devcon4-ticket-sales</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friends,  Today, we’re happy to announce some significant updates to the Devcon4 website, and with it we wanted to unveil a bit about the ticketing and discount processes and more!  Applications for scholarships and builder & student discounts are now open!  Are you a builder working for...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
            <enclosure url="https://blog.ethereum.org/images/posts/devcon4-logo.png" length="0" type="image/png"/>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Swarm Proof-of-Concept Release 3]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/06/21/announcing-swarm-proof-of-concept-release-3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/06/21/announcing-swarm-proof-of-concept-release-3</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Swarm Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Swarm client v0.3, the third proof-of-concept release (POC3) of the Ethereum Swarm client. The POC3 code is now merged into the official go-ethereum repository's master branch.  Swarm 0.3 has been deployed to the public Testnet, and the Ethereum...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon4 Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/05/11/devcon4-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/05/11/devcon4-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 16:29:37 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Přátelé,  Now that we’re well into the year, we know that many of you have started to plan ahead for changing weather, holiday celebrations, and (of course) Devcon!  We’re excited to announce today that Devcon4 will take place in Prague from 30 October - 02 November of this...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing May 2018 Cohort of EF Grants]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/05/02/announcing-may-2018-cohort-ef-grants</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/05/02/announcing-may-2018-cohort-ef-grants</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 18:37:50 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thank you all for applying, and we’re excited to announce the latest Ethereum Foundation grants! We funded 22 recipients for a total of $2.84M....]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing World Trade Francs: The Official Ethereum Stablecoin]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/04/01/announcing-world-trade-francs-official-ethereum-stablecoin</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/04/01/announcing-world-trade-francs-official-ethereum-stablecoin</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 15:35:26 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We have long recognized that in order for cryptocurrency to reach mass adoption, a form of cryptocurrency that has higher price stability than existing cryptocurrencies like BTC and ETH would be needed so that people can use the currency to store funds and engage in commerce without worrying about their...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing Beneficiaries of the Ethereum Foundation Grants]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/03/07/announcing-beneficiaries-ethereum-foundation-grants</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/03/07/announcing-beneficiaries-ethereum-foundation-grants</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:54:33 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We’re excited to share the results of the first wave of grants from the Ethereum Foundation.  As a reminder, the Ethereum project seeks to support useful dapps and smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and the goal of the Ethereum Foundation is to empower developers with best-in-class R&amp;D, developer...]]></description>
            <category>Ecosystem Support Program</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geth 1.8 - Iceberg¹]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/02/14/geth-1-8-iceberg</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/02/14/geth-1-8-iceberg</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:45:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After waaay too much time under development, we're proud to finally announce version 1.8.0 of the Go Ethereum client: Iceberg! The release fixes a lot of pain points felt by the community and ships a few notable new features, tallying up to ~170 modifications!  **Please note, this release introduces...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Farewell and Welcome]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/01/31/farewell-and-welcome</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/01/31/farewell-and-welcome</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:10:02 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It is with sadness that we announce that Ming Chan, who has served as Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation for nearly three years, is leaving the Foundation. Since her arrival in 2015, she has played a critical role in the development and success of the Foundation. We will miss the...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[To Infinity and Beyond!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/01/31/to-infinity-and-beyond</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/01/31/to-infinity-and-beyond</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:27:27 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dear Ethereum community (and wonderful Etherheads!),  Today, January 31, 2018, is my last day as Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation.  I’m pleased to have been able to guide the Foundation as ED with my fellow directors, team leads, and outstanding group of team members, each of whom...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum scalability research and development subsidy programs]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/01/02/ethereum-scalability-research-development-subsidy-programs</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/01/02/ethereum-scalability-research-development-subsidy-programs</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:42:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Blockchain scalability is difficult primarily because a typical blockchain design requires every node in...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Q4 Roundup]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/01/02/q4-roundup</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2018/01/02/q4-roundup</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2018 15:27:18 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum has grown very rapidly in the last few months. Transaction volume on the blockchain has more than doubled, surpassing 10 transactions per second for days at a time. The number of new accounts created per day passed 100,000<span style="font-w...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security alert — Chromium vulnerability affecting Mist Browser Beta]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/12/15/security-alert-chromium-vulnerability-affecting-mist-browser-beta</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/12/15/security-alert-chromium-vulnerability-affecting-mist-browser-beta</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:48:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Due to a Chromium vulnerability affecting all released versions of the Mist Browser Beta v0.9.3 and below, we are issuing this alert warning users not to browse untrusted websites with Mist Browser Beta at this time. Users of "Ethereum Wallet" desktop app are not affected.  Affected configurations: Mist Browser...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon3 videos available now!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/11/26/devcon3-vids-available-now</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/11/26/devcon3-vids-available-now</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2017 00:17:13 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[To accommodate the biggest post-devcon request, we're happy to announce that Devcon3 videos are now available for viewing!  As promised, we recorded sessions from both the main hall and breakout hall on all four days of Devcon3. Given we had two halls instead of one this year, and also added...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Devcon3!!!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/11/16/devcon3</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/11/16/devcon3</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:55:44 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A note from the ED:  A big thanks to our attending dev community, presenters, internal team, sponsors, enthusiasts, volunteers, event team, students and other stakeholders for coming together for another phenomenal Devcon3!  First of all, yes, video of all sessions, both from the Main Hall and Breakout Hall will be...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Byzantium HF Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/10/12/byzantium-hf-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/10/12/byzantium-hf-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 07:51:59 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum network will be undergoing a planned hard fork at block number 4.37mil (4,370,000), which will likely occur between 12:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC on Monday, October 16, 2017. The Ropsten test network underwent a hard fork on September 19th (UTC) at block number 1.7mil (1,700,000). A countdown timer can be...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Roundup #6]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/10/09/roundup-6</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/10/09/roundup-6</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 09:55:53 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Metropolis is finally (almost) here! The fork for Byzantium, the first and larger part of Metropolis, succeeded on the testnet over two weeks ago, and the likely date for the fork on the mainnet has been set to block 4.37 million, which is expected to be on Oct 17. New features...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geth 1.7 - Megara]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/09/14/geth-1-7-megara</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/09/14/geth-1-7-megara</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:36:33 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Go Ethereum team is proud to announce the next release family of Geth, the first incarnation focusing on laying the groundwork for the upcoming Metropolis hard forks (Byzantium and Constantinople), consisting of 125+ code contributions for various parts of the project....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Roundup #5]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/08/23/roundup-5</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/08/23/roundup-5</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:34:51 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Development has steadily continued over the last month and a half as we approach the launch of Metropolis. Over a series of core dev calls over the last few months, we have specified and finalized the EIPs for...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Statement Objecting To EME as a W3C Recommendation]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/08/21/statement-objecting-w3c-publishing-eme-recommendation</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/08/21/statement-objecting-w3c-publishing-eme-recommendation</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:59:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Foundation believes Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) should not be published as a W3C Recommendation, and we are now making public the formal objection the Ethereum Foundation submitted to the W3C opposing the recommendation of EME.  As a member of the W3C, the Ethereum Foundation contributes to the standards-making process and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Roundup Q2]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/07/08/roundup-q2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/07/08/roundup-q2</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2017 02:03:25 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thanks to all the developers and team leads who contributed to the sections on their projects  In the last month and a half, the Ethereum network went through a rapid growth in usage, to the point that it now processes as many transactions per second as Bitcoin. To accommodate...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Roundup Round III]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/05/24/roundup-round-iii</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/05/24/roundup-round-iii</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 17:04:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the last month and a half we saw vigorous ongoing research and development on all sides of the Ethereum roadmap, and progress is rapidly starting to translate into real results that can be run and verified inside of an Ethereum client.  On Metropolis:  Agendas for core dev...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Solidity optimizer bug]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/05/03/solidity-optimizer-bug</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/05/03/solidity-optimizer-bug</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 15:21:57 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A bug in the Solidity optimizer was reported through the Ethereum Foundation Bounty program, by Christoph Jentzsch. This bug is patched as of 2017-05-03, with the release of Solidity 0.4.11....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geth 1.6 - Puppeth Master]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/04/14/geth-1-6-puppeth-master</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/04/14/geth-1-6-puppeth-master</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:19:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Cramming in a lot more goodies than originally anticipated, the Go Ethereum team is proud to finally deliver the first incarnation of the 1.6 Geth release series! Glimpsing through the commit list, this is going to be a monster post!...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1 (Boring Edition)]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/04/07/ethereum-dev-roundup-q1-boring-edition</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/04/07/ethereum-dev-roundup-q1-boring-edition</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 11:30:17 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The last one and a half months have seen great progress for Ethereum research, and we are excited that the protocol is moving closer and closer to the point where it is ready for mainstream adoption. Progress on consensus algorithms, privacy, zero knowledge proofs and formal verification is happening at...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/04/01/ethereum-dev-roundup-q1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/04/01/ethereum-dev-roundup-q1</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 02:55:28 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The last one and a half months have seen great progress for Ethereum research, and we are excited that the protocol is moving closer and closer to the point where it is ready for mainstream adoption. Progress on consensus algorithms, privacy, zero knowledge proofs and formal verification is happening at...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum JS Ecosystem Updates]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/03/21/ethereum-js-ecosystem-updates</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/03/21/ethereum-js-ecosystem-updates</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2017 03:11:39 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's been a fairly busy for the last couple of months for the Ethereum javascripters. To start with, there was a really great hackathon with IPFS. You can read Dan Finlay's excellent write up here.  Also, during this time Aaron Davis (Kumavis) made s...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum R&D Roundup: Valentine’s Day Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/02/14/ethereum-rnd-roundup-valentines-day-edition</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/02/14/ethereum-rnd-roundup-valentines-day-edition</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:27:28 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[During the last month and a half, the Ethereum core development and research teams have been building upon the progress made in the last year, and with the specter of last year's security issues now well behind us, work has begun in full force on implementing the Metropolis hard fork....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Update on Integrating Zcash on Ethereum (ZoE)]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/01/19/update-integrating-zcash-ethereum</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/01/19/update-integrating-zcash-ethereum</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:57:54 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Members of the Ethereum R&amp;D team and the Zcash Company are collaborating on a research project addressing the combination of programmability and privacy in blockchains. This joint post is being concurrently posted on the Zcash blog, and is coauthored by Ariel Gabizon (Zcash) and Christian Reitwiessner (Ethereum).  Ethereum’s flexible smart...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introduction of the Light Client for DApp developers]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/01/07/introduction-light-client-dapp-developers</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/01/07/introduction-light-client-dapp-developers</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2017 03:42:14 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The first version of the Light Ethereum Subprotocol (LES/1) and its implementation in Geth are still in an experimental stage, but they are expected to reach a more mature state in a few months where the basic functions will perform reliably. The light client has been designed to function more or...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[December Roundup]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/31/december-roundup</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/31/december-roundup</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:50:37 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[December marks a month of continued progress in the Ethereum ecosystem. Research on proof of stake and sharding continues after the research team's workshop in Singapore in November, the light client slowly keeps getting better, Whisper and Swarm keep moving forward, and discussions on protocol economics and community governance co...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security alert [12/19/2016]: Ethereum.org Forums Database Compromised]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/19/security-alert-12192016-ethereum-org-forums-database-compromised</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/19/security-alert-12192016-ethereum-org-forums-database-compromised</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:54:25 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On December 16, we were made aware that someone had recently gained unauthorized access to a database from forum.ethereum.org. We immediately launched a thorough investigation to determine the origin, nature, and scope of this incident. Here is what we know:    	The information that was recently accessed is...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swarm alpha public pilot and the basics of Swarm]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/15/swarm-alpha-public-pilot-basics-swarm</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/15/swarm-alpha-public-pilot-basics-swarm</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 06:36:57 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With the long awaited geth 1.5 ("let there bee light") release, Swarm made it into the official go-ethereum release as an experimental feature. The current version of the code is POC 0.2 RC5 -- "embrace your daemons" (roadmap), which is the refactored and cleaner version of the codebase that was...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The History of Casper - Chapter 2]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/07/history-casper-chapter-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/07/history-casper-chapter-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:58:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This chapter describes the game theory and economic security modelling we were doing in the Fall of 2014. It recounts how the "bribing attacker model" led our research directly to a radical solution to the long range attack problem....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The History of Casper - Chapter 1]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/06/history-casper-chapter-1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/06/history-casper-chapter-1</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 20:04:46 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Vitalik suggested last week that I share my basic research and design philosophy in a blog post, I agreed but complained that it was still changing. My friend Jon West told me that everyone would really appreciate it if I told everyone about my Casper research, I mostly agreed. Then...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[zkSNARKs in a nutshell]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/05/zksnarks-in-a-nutshell</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/05/zksnarks-in-a-nutshell</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:07:36 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The possibilities of zkSNARKs are impressive, you can verify the correctness of computations without having to execute them and you will not even learn what was executed - just that it was done correctly. Unfortunately, most explanations of zkSNARKs resort to hand-waving at some point and thus they remain something...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Research Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/04/ethereum-research-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/12/04/ethereum-research-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2016 11:27:47 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This week marks the completion of our fourth hard fork, Spurious Dragon, and the subsequent state clearing process, the final steps in the two-hard-fork solution to the recent Ethereum denial of service attacks that slowed down the network in September and October. Gas limits are in the proce...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security alert [11/24/2016]: Consensus bug in geth v1.4.19 and v1.5.2]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/25/security-alert-11242016-consensus-bug-geth-v1-4-19-v1-5-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/25/security-alert-11242016-consensus-bug-geth-v1-4-19-v1-5-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2016 01:13:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Security Alert  Affected configurations: Geth  Severity: High  Summary:  An issue has been identified with Geth's journaling mechanism. This caused a network fork at block #2686351 (Nov-24-2016 14:12:07 UTC). The...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[From Morden to Ropsten]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/20/from-morden-to-ropsten</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/20/from-morden-to-ropsten</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:03:42 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hard Fork No. 4: Spurious Dragon]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/18/hard-fork-no-4-spurious-dragon</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/18/hard-fork-no-4-spurious-dragon</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:19:46 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2,675,000, which will likely occur between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 22, 2016. A countdown timer can be seen at https://fork.codetract.io/. The Morden test network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 1,885,000....]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Whoa… Geth 1.5]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/17/whoa-geth-1-5</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/17/whoa-geth-1-5</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:35:38 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Go Ethereum team is very proud to finally release Geth 1.5, which can almost be called a complete internal rewrite of the Go Ethereum (go-ethereum) codebase.  We've packed a huge number of changes into this release, and simply listing them wouldn't do them justice. Instead, we've decided to write them...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Analysis of Storage Corruption Bug]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/09/analysis-storage-corruption-bug</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/09/analysis-storage-corruption-bug</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:04:37 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This blog post provides an update on our findings following the discovery of the storage corruption bug last week. In summary, the bug was much less severe than we initially thought. The small number of affected contracts we found is either only exploitable by the owner, or the exploit can only cause a disruption in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert - Solidity - Variables can be overwritten in storage]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/01/security-alert-solidity-variables-can-overwritten-storage</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/11/01/security-alert-solidity-variables-can-overwritten-storage</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 08:40:44 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Summary: In some situations, variables can overwrite other variables in storage.  Affected Solidity compiler versions: 0.1.6 to 0.4.3 (including 0.4.4 pre-release versions)  Detailed description:  Storage variables that are smaller than 256 bits are packed together into the same 256 bit slot if they can fit. If a...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Uncle Rate and Transaction Fee Analysis]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/10/31/uncle-rate-transaction-fee-analysis</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/10/31/uncle-rate-transaction-fee-analysis</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 03:52:04 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the important indicators of how much load the Ethereum blockchain can safely handle is how the uncle rate responds to the gas usage of a transaction. In all blockchains of the Satoshian proof-of-work variety, any block that is published has the risk of howbecoming a "stale", ie. not...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert - Mist can be vulnerable when navigating to malicious DApps]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/10/27/security-alert-mist-can-vulnerable-navigating-malicious-dapps</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/10/27/security-alert-mist-can-vulnerable-navigating-malicious-dapps</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:12:05 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Mist leaks some low level APIs, which Dapps could use to gain access to the computer's file system and read/delete files. This would only affect you if you navigate to an untrusted Dapp that knows about these vulnerabilities and specifically tries to attack users. Upgrading Mist is highly recommended to prevent exposure...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[FAQ: Upcoming Ethereum Hard Fork]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/10/18/faq-upcoming-ethereum-hard-fork</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/10/18/faq-upcoming-ethereum-hard-fork</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 01:05:51 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 18, 2016. A countdown timer can be seen at https://fork.codetract.io/....]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcement of imminent hard fork for EIP150 gas cost changes]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/10/13/announcement-imminent-hard-fork-eip150-gas-cost-changes</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/10/13/announcement-imminent-hard-fork-eip150-gas-cost-changes</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 23:25:27 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 vulnerabilities in the client implementations as well as the protocol specification.  While the recent patches have led to an overall increased resiliency in the...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Transaction spam attack: Next Steps]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/09/22/transaction-spam-attack-next-steps</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/09/22/transaction-spam-attack-next-steps</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 21:31:35 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 up to 20-60 seconds to validate due to the 50,000 disk fetches needed to process the transaction. The result of this was a ~2-3x reduction...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ethereum network is currently undergoing a DoS attack]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/09/22/ethereum-network-currently-undergoing-dos-attack</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/09/22/ethereum-network-currently-undergoing-dos-attack</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:46:27 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[URGENT ALL MINERS: The network is under attack. The attack is a computational DDoS, ie. miners and nodes need to spend a very long time processing some blocks. This is due to the EXTCODESIZE opcode, which has a fairly low gasprice but which requires nodes to read state information from...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security alert - All geth nodes crash due to an out of memory bug]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/09/18/security-alert-geth-nodes-crash-due-memory-bug</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/09/18/security-alert-geth-nodes-crash-due-memory-bug</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2016 23:31:43 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Security Alert  Affected configurations: Geth  Likelihood: High  Severity: High  Summary: geth nodes running out of memory and crashing on block https://etherchain.org/block/2283416  Details: TBD  Solution: [Geth 1.4.12](http...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dev Update: Formal Methods]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/09/01/formal-methods-roadmap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/09/01/formal-methods-roadmap</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:55:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today, I am delighted to announce that Yoichi Hirai (pirapira on github) is joining the Ethereum project as a formal verification engineer. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo on the topic of formalizing communicating parallel processes and created formal verification tools for Ethereum in his spare time....]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Inflation, Transaction Fees and Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/27/inflation-transaction-fees-cryptocurrency-monetary-policy</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/27/inflation-transaction-fees-cryptocurrency-monetary-policy</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 its consensus protocol, whether proof of work or proof of stake, and this inevitably incurs some cost. There are two ways to pay for this...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Onward from the Hard Fork]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/26/onward-from-the-hard-fork</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/26/onward-from-the-hard-fork</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:42:14 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 and ecosystem infrastructure adoption, this means that we will focus our resources and attention on the chain which is now called ETH (ie. the fork...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hive: How we strived for a clean fork]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/22/hive-strived-clean-fork</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/22/hive-strived-clean-fork</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:36:16 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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), but we also managed to introduce a data race into the rushed implementation that was a ticking time bomb. It was not ideal, and even...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hard Fork Completed]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/20/hard-fork-completed</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/20/hard-fork-completed</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 20:29:12 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 transferred ~12 million ETH from the "Dark DAO" and "Whitehat DAO" contracts into the WithdrawDAO recovery contract. The fork itself took place smoothly, with roughly...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[To fork or not to fork]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/15/to-fork-or-not-to-fork</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/15/to-fork-or-not-to-fork</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:56:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 well as within our community. The Hard Fork is a delicate topic and the way we see it, no decision is the right one. As this...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to build server less applications for Mist]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/12/build-server-less-applications-mist</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/12/build-server-less-applications-mist</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:47:52 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 be one pillar of a different architecture for applications on the world wide web. With this post we will try to elucidate how this can...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Taylor’s Summer Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/11/taylors-summer-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/11/taylors-summer-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:05:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey everyone, I spent some time with our Canadian friends in Toronto after presenting "Ethereum: The World Computer" at Blockchain Training Conference last month and I wanted to provide a quick update on some of the exciting happenings in the Ethereum dev ecosystem. Lots of things are brewing behinds the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[C++ DEV Update - July edition]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/08/c-dev-update-summer-edition</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/08/c-dev-update-summer-edition</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:57:33 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since the last C++ DEV Update, a lot of things happened in the engine room which were not really visible to the outside. This post wants to give an overview about what we are currently working on.  Apart from the features side, Bob has been working on a proposed...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Devcon2 site is now live!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/08/devcon2-site-now-live</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/07/08/devcon2-site-now-live</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:59:03 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Devcon2 web site is officially live now! You can find it at https://ethereumfoundation.org/devcon/  Thanks for everyone's interest, proposals, support and enthusiasm. We have an amazing community and are excited to present the first Ethereum Foundation event in Asia.  This year, Devcon2 (September 19, 20, 21) will be a featured conference...]]></description>
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            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert - DoS Vulnerability in the Soft Fork]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/28/security-alert-dos-vulnerability-in-the-soft-fork</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/28/security-alert-dos-vulnerability-in-the-soft-fork</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Affected configurations: geth 1.4.8  Likelihood: High  Severity: High  Details:  An attack vector has been identified in the freshly released implementation of the DAO soft fork. The fork enactment code in geth (and other clients) allows execution of EVM code up to the block gas limit without paying for...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[DAO Wars: Your voice on the soft-fork dilemma]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/24/dao-wars-youre-voice-soft-fork-dilemma</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/24/dao-wars-youre-voice-soft-fork-dilemma</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:46:38 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The last week was quite hectic for all of us in the Ethereum ecosystem. The DAO has shown us that it takes much more effort to write smart contracts than we originally anticipated; but also that it takes a surprising amount of debate to reach a consensus on issues of this scale. ...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert – Smart Contract Wallets created in frontier are vulnerable to phishing attacks]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/24/security-alert-smart-contract-wallets-created-in-frontier-are-vulnerable-to-phishing-attacks</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/24/security-alert-smart-contract-wallets-created-in-frontier-are-vulnerable-to-phishing-attacks</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:58:05 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Affected configurations: All smart contract wallets created using Ethereum Wallet  Frontier, version 0.4.0 (Beta 7) or earlier. Wallets created with Ethereum Wallet 0.5.0 and all later versions released after March 3, 2016, are not affected.  Likelihood: Low  Severity: High...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thinking About Smart Contract Security]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/19/thinking-smart-contract-security</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/19/thinking-smart-contract-security</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2016 01:30:06 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the last day with the community's help we have crowdsourced a list of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the DAO as well as various smaller 100-10000 ETH thefts and losses in games and token contracts.  This list (original source here)...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[CRITICAL UPDATE Re: DAO Vulnerability]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/17/critical-update-re-dao-vulnerability</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/17/critical-update-re-dao-vulnerability</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:20:23 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An attack has been found and exploited in the DAO, and the attacker is currently in the process of draining the ether contained in the DAO into a child DAO. The attack is a recursive calling vulnerability, <span style="font-weight...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation welcomes Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, Shanghai 19-21 September, 2016]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/14/ethereum-welcomes-microsoft-devcon</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/14/ethereum-welcomes-microsoft-devcon</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:44:52 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[London, United Kingdom, June 14, 2016 – The Ethereum Foundation is pleased to announce Microsoft as the Premiere Sponsor of Devcon2, the Ethereum developer conference in Shanghai, 19-21 September, 2016.  Devcon2, which will showcase the most up-to-date research and development work supported by the Foundation, also represents the most...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Smart Contract Security]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/10/smart-contract-security</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/10/smart-contract-security</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:27:17 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Solidity was started in October 2014 when neither the Ethereum network nor the virtual machine had any real-world testing, the gas costs at that time were even drastically different from what they are now. Furthermore, some of the early design decisions were taken over from Serpent. During the last couple...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert - cpp-ethereum’s account unlocking problem not yet fixed [Now fixed]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/03/security-alert-cpp-ethereums-account-unlocking-problem-not-yet-fixed</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/03/security-alert-cpp-ethereums-account-unlocking-problem-not-yet-fixed</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 18:05:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Affected configurations: cpp-ethereum (eth, AlethZero, …) version 1.2.0 up to 1.2.6 Note: Neither “geth” nor “Mist” nor the “Ethereum Wallet” (unless explicitly used together with cpp-ethereum) are affected by this, they lock accounts correctly again.  This is just a quick head's up that cpp-ethereum's security issue around account security...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Go Ethereum’s JIT-EVM]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/02/go-ethereums-jit-evm</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/06/02/go-ethereums-jit-evm</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2016 16:21:36 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Virtual machine is kind of different than most other Virtual Machines out there. In my previous post I already explained how it’s used and described some of its characteristics.  The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is a simple but powe...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert - cpp-ethereum keeps accounts unlocked]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/05/31/security-alert-cpp-ethereum-keeps-accounts-unlocked</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/05/31/security-alert-cpp-ethereum-keeps-accounts-unlocked</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2016 00:13:36 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Affected configurations: cpp-ethereum (eth, AlethZero, ...) version 1.2.0 up to 1.2.5 (fixed in 1.2.6) Note: Neither "geth" nor "Mist" nor the "Ethereum Wallet" (unless explicitly used together with cpp-ethereum) are affected by this, they lock accounts correctly again.Severity: HighPossible Attacks:</stro...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert – Geth suffers from a very low probable DoS attack vector - Update immediately]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/05/17/security-alert-geth-suffers-from-a-very-low-probable-dos-attack-vector-update-immediately</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/05/17/security-alert-geth-suffers-from-a-very-low-probable-dos-attack-vector-update-immediately</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 18:39:54 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Affected configurations: All Go client versions   Likelihood: Very low  Severity: High  Details: A bug in Geth (and potentially other clients) may suffer from a DoS attack and allows remote attackers to stall synchronisation process almost indefinitely by supplying a valid, lighter...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Settlement Finality]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/05/09/on-settlement-finality</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/05/09/on-settlement-finality</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 08:07:25 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Tim Swanson for reviewing, and for further discussions on the arguments in his original paper on settlement finality.  Recently one of the major disputes in ongoing debate between public blockchain and permissioned blockchain proponents is the issue of settlement finality. One of the simple properties that...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[C++ DEV Update: Announcing Remix]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/05/04/c-dev-update-announcing-remix</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/05/04/c-dev-update-announcing-remix</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2016 19:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After almost three months into the "reboot" of the C++ team, I would like to give an update about the team itself, what we did and what we plan to do.  Team update  The so-called C++ team currently consists of Paweł Bylica (@chfast), Greg Colvin (@gcolvin), Liana Husikyan...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs announce a blockbuster event combining Devcon2 and the 2nd Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai, September 19–24, 2016]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/04/05/devcon2-and-blockchain-summit-shanghai-september2016</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/04/05/devcon2-and-blockchain-summit-shanghai-september2016</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:39:37 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[[Last update: July 5, 2016]  The Ethereum Foundation and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs are excited to jointly announce the International Blockchain Week in Shanghai, which will take place at Hyatt on the Bund, September 19–24, 2016. Both Ethereum’s Devcon and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs’ Global Blockchain Summit were sold out last...]]></description>
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            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Partners with R3CEV on Lizardcoin, Bringing Together the Best of Centralized Finance and Blockchain Technology]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/04/01/ethereum-partners-with-r3cev-on-lizardcoin-bringing-together-the-best-of-centralized-finance-and-blockchain-technology</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/04/01/ethereum-partners-with-r3cev-on-lizardcoin-bringing-together-the-best-of-centralized-finance-and-blockchain-technology</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 08:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Foundation has announced that it will be working with the New York-based banking consortium R3CEV on creating a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Lizardcoin, which aims to showcase the benefits of blockchain technology as well as the consortium's ability to bring the technology to institutional clients and the regulation-loving masses...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Solidity Available in Visual Studio]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/03/30/solidity-available-in-visual-studio</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/03/30/solidity-available-in-visual-studio</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:17:25 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Consensys and Microsoft have announced that the Ethereum contract programming language Solidity will be available in Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment. ConsenSys and Microsoft collaborated on this integration to enable developers to rapidly build smart contract-based applications for the public Ethereum blockchain, as well as private and consortium blockchain...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Open Source Mining Pool Bounty and DEVgrant]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/03/29/an-open-source-mining-pool-bounty</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/03/29/an-open-source-mining-pool-bounty</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:05:02 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum’s present reliance on Proof of Work (PoW) mining is not ideal, and while we continue to work with gusto towards a Proof of Stake solution (PoS), we have to live with PoW as gracefully as possible (at least until the eventual switch!). Meanwhile, in the interest of overall network...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Serenity PoC2]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/03/05/serenity-poc2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/03/05/serenity-poc2</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2016 15:39:33 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After an additional two months of work after the release of the first python proof of concept release of Serenity, I am pleased to announce that Serenity PoC2 is now available. Although the release continues to be far from a testnet-ready client, much less a production-ready one, PoC2 brings with...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Homestead Release]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/29/homestead-release</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/29/homestead-release</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:24:08 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Update: We've released version 1.3.5 including networking hotfix for homestead 1.3.4.   Development of Ethereum started in December 2013 when two developers and a college dropout researcher decided to put their heads together and develop this amazing piece of technology. We were later<span style="font-weight: 400;...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[From Smart Contracts to Courts with not so Smart Judges]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/17/smart-contracts-courts-not-smart-judges</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/17/smart-contracts-courts-not-smart-judges</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:42:29 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum is often described as a platform for self-enforcing smart contracts. While this is certainly true, this article argues that, especially when more complex systems are involved, it is rather a court with smart lawyers and a judge that is not so smart, or more formally, a judge with restricted...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[BTC Relay included in Ethereum Bounty Program]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/17/btc-relay-included-in-bounty-program</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/17/btc-relay-included-in-bounty-program</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:09:04 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Following hacking @ DEVCON1,  Martin Swende is Nr. 1 on the leaderboard of the Ethereum Bounty Program. The bounty program is ongoing and the last bounty awarded amounted to 5 BTC. The program is open to anyone. With BTC Relay getting ready for launch on Ether...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum DEV Update: C++ Roadmap]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/12/ethereum-dev-update-c-roadmap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/12/ethereum-dev-update-c-roadmap</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:31:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Although this is my first post in this blog, many people might already know me as the person behind Solidity. I recently took on the lead of the C++ team and would like to share my vision for the future development.  Ethereum is a free software project that anyone...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cut and try: building a dream]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/09/cut-and-try-building-a-dream</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/09/cut-and-try-building-a-dream</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:16:46 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Last month marked the 2 year anniversary of Ethereum's public announcement at The North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, Florida, USA. Amid much rumour and excitement, a sizeable crowd mobbed the young Vitalik Buterin after his on-stage announcement, questioning the merit and his desire to build such a system. ...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ambients Applied to Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/01/2458</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/01/2458</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 04:11:14 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Privacy on the Blockchain]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/01/15/privacy-on-the-blockchain</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/01/15/privacy-on-the-blockchain</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:28:59 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Blockchains are a powerful technology, as regular readers of the blog already likely agree. They allow for a large number of interactions to be codified and carried out in a way that greatly increases reliability, removes business and political risks associated with the process being managed by a central entity,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The last Blog Post]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/01/11/last-blog-post</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/01/11/last-blog-post</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:09:29 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say. -- Pink Floyd  It is with no small amount of sadness that I must bid ye farewell. Like The Floyd’s work, in the time I’ve been involved with Ethereum, I’ve sampled the full gamut of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ÐΞVgrants Update and New Funding]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/01/08/devgrants-update-new-funding</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/01/08/devgrants-update-new-funding</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:11:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If DEVCON1 proved anything in spades, it was certainly the enthusiasm, creativity, and momentum of the Ethereum developer community. Utilizing the never-before-seen potential unleashed by the Ethereum World Computer, our small-but-growing community is not just re-imagining money (or even just re-imagining the Internet)... It is also re-imagining and delivering alternative...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation Internal Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/01/07/2394</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/01/07/2394</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:37:42 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Now that Ethereum has launched and is rapidly nearing its Homestead phase, over the last few months we at the Ethereum Foundation have finally had the chance to have some breathing room and plan our strategies with a more long-term view. From a development perspective, we have now started in...]]></description>
            <category>Organizational</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Understanding Serenity, Part 2: Casper]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/28/understanding-serenity-part-2-casper</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/28/understanding-serenity-part-2-casper</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 01:54:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for introducing the idea of by-block consensus and convincing me of its merits, alongside many of the other core ideas of Casper, and to Vlad Zamfir and Greg Meredith for their continued work on the protocol  In the last post in this series, we...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Understanding Serenity, Part I: Abstraction]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/24/understanding-serenity-part-i-abstraction</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/24/understanding-serenity-part-i-abstraction</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2015 02:23:48 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Gavin Wood for prompting my interest into abstraction improvements, and Martin Becze, Vlad Zamfir and Dominic Williams for ongoing discussions.  For a long time we have been public about our plans to continue improving the Ethereum protocol over time and our long development roadmap, learning from...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum in practice part 3: how to build your own transparent bank on the blockchain]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/07/ethereum-in-practice-part-3-how-to-build-your-own-transparent-bank-on-the-blockchain</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/07/ethereum-in-practice-part-3-how-to-build-your-own-transparent-bank-on-the-blockchain</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2015 10:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is the third and final post on a series on how to use the Ethereum Wallet to create your own autonomous organisations. On the first post we detailed how to create a token, and on the second we shown how to generate a digital democracy controlled by these tokens....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum in practice part 2: how to build a better democracy in under a 100 lines of code]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/04/ethereum-in-practice-part-2-how-to-build-a-better-democracy-in-under-a-100-lines-of-code</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/04/ethereum-in-practice-part-2-how-to-build-a-better-democracy-in-under-a-100-lines-of-code</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:00:31 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is a second post on a series on how to use the current Ethereum tools to build smart contracts without needing programming experience. Download the latest version of the Ethereum Wallet, read the first part and let's have fun!  Creating a token is fun, but what is the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum in practice part 1: how to build your own cryptocurrency without touching a line of code]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/03/how-to-build-your-own-cryptocurrency</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/12/03/how-to-build-your-own-cryptocurrency</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:04:45 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A lot of things have happened in the past few weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, so many that it might be hard for a casual observer to understand where we are and what's available out there. So I would like to use my first post here to give you an...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Applications of Security Deposits and Prediction Markets You Might Not Have Thought About]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/11/24/applications-of-security-deposits-and-prediction-markets-you-might-not-have-thought-about</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/11/24/applications-of-security-deposits-and-prediction-markets-you-might-not-have-thought-about</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:43:07 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for his work in developing many of the ideas behind prediction markets for content curation.  For the past six years, people have been searching to try to find those elusive applications of blockchain technology that could finally break out into the mainstream. For cryptocurrency,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Merkling in Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/11/15/merkling-in-ethereum</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/11/15/merkling-in-ethereum</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 11:51:53 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Merkle trees are a fundamental part of what makes blockchains tick. Although it is definitely theoretically possible to make a blockchain without Merkle trees, simply by creating giant block headers that directly contain every transaction, doing so poses large scalability challenges that arguably puts the ability to trustlessly use blockchains...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stateful Turing-Complete Policies]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/11/09/stateful-turing-complete-policies</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/11/09/stateful-turing-complete-policies</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 07:20:43 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the major security challenges of the internet over the last twenty years has consistently been the rather simple problem of securing user accounts. Right now, users have accounts with hundreds of websites, and dozens of passwords, leading to large numbers of <a href="http:...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Dev Update 2015 / Week 44]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/11/02/ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-44</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/11/02/ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-44</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2015 14:42:37 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With DEVCON1 a mere week away, the teams are excited and preparing to share all the great tools and technology the ecosystem has to offer. There will be hundreds of developers and dozens of talks including Nick Szabo, Vitalik Buterin, and Marley Gray from Microsoft. Tickets are limited and we...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Microsoft to Sponsor Ethereum’s DEVCON1]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/28/microsoft-to-sponsor-ethereums-devcon1-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/28/microsoft-to-sponsor-ethereums-devcon1-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:43:42 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[London, United Kingdom, October 28th - Ethereum is happy to announce that Microsoft will sponsor and attend DΞVCON1, the premier Ethereum developer conference.  Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy US Financial Services at Microsoft said, "Microsoft is excited to sponsor and attend Ether...]]></description>
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            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nick Szabo Confirmed as Keynote Speaker of Ethereum’s DEVCON1]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/22/nick-szabo-confirmed-as-keynote-speaker-of-ethereums-devcon1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/22/nick-szabo-confirmed-as-keynote-speaker-of-ethereums-devcon1</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:33:44 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[London, United Kingdom, October 22nd - The Ethereum Foundation is pleased to announce the Keynote Speaker of Ethereum’s annual conference DΞVCON1, Nick Szabo. Nick’s keynote will focus on the history of the blockchain, smart contracts and assets on the blockchain. Nick is a computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer known...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security alert [Implementation of BLOCKHASH instruction in C++ and Go clients can potentially cause consensus issue – Fixed. Please update.]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/22/security-alert-implementation-of-blockhash-instruction-in-c-and-go-clients-can-potentially-cause-consensus-issue-fixed-please-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/22/security-alert-implementation-of-blockhash-instruction-in-c-and-go-clients-can-potentially-cause-consensus-issue-fixed-please-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:06:53 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Summary: Erroneous implementation of BLOCKHASH can trigger a chain reorganisation leading to consensus problems  Affected configurations: All geth versions up to 1.1.3 and 1.2.2. All eth versions prior to 1.0.0.  Likelihood: Low  Severity: Medium  Impact: Medium  Details: Both C++ (eth) and Go (geth) clients have...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Vitalik’s Research and Ecosystem Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/18/vitaliks-research-and-ecosystem-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/18/vitaliks-research-and-ecosystem-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:56:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the last five days, myself, our executive director Ming Chan, and several others from the Ethereum team and Ethereum-based projects and businesses including Maker, String/Dfinity and Consensys have been visiting China and Hong Kong, where there have been a series of back-to-back conferences and events most notably including the...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Dev Update 2015 / Week 41]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/13/ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-41</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/13/ethereum-dev-update-2015-week-41</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:43:48 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In an effort to bring the community more information about the going-ons at Ethereum, we're planning to release semi-weekly updates of project progress. I hope this provides some high-level information without having to live on GitHub ;)  The Go and C++ teams have daily standups and are making regular progress along with...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Advisory [eth (cpp-ethereum) potentially vulnerable if running with UPnP enabled]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/10/security-advisory-eth-cpp-ethereum-potentially-vulnerable-if-running-with-upnp-enabled</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/10/10/security-advisory-eth-cpp-ethereum-potentially-vulnerable-if-running-with-upnp-enabled</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:51:20 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Affected configurations: Issue reported for eth (cpp-ethereum).Likelihood: Medium<section...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Evolution of Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/28/the-evolution-of-ethereum</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/28/the-evolution-of-ethereum</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:43:55 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Many of you know that the Ethereum platform grew out of the realization that blockchains can go far beyond currency, together with a frustration with the limitations of previous projects. The core idea was simple: a blockchain with a built-in Turing-complete programming language, allowing users to build any kind of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[More uncle statistics]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/25/more-uncle-statistics</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/25/more-uncle-statistics</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:42:05 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The following are some interesting results on the performance of different miners over the course of the first 280,000 blocks of the Ethereum blockchain. For this timespan I have collected the list of block and uncle coinbase addresses; raw data can be found here for blocks and here for uncles,...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[DEVcon is back!]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/24/devcon-is-back</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/24/devcon-is-back</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:31:22 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DevCon 1 will be happening in London on November 9-13, a little over one hundred days since the Ethereum network launched. Over the last months, we’ve seen the network grow from a few hundred nodes starting on that one exciting and special night to a very substantial, globally deployed stable...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Comms Announcement]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/18/ethereum-comms-announcement</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/18/ethereum-comms-announcement</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:44:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The foundation is currently in the phase of restructuring its communications activities. Several members of our current communications team in London are soon leaving or reducing their involvement in the Foundation in order to pursue for-profit ventures on top of the Ethereum ecosystem; we wish them the best of luck....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Wallet - Developer Preview]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/16/ethereum-wallet-developer-preview</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/16/ethereum-wallet-developer-preview</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 20:43:39 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are happy to announce our very first developer-preview of the Ethereum Wallet ÐApp. The point of this release is to gather feedback, squash bugs and, most importantly, get the code audited.  Please note that this is a developer-preview and not the final release. We advise you to be...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Slow and Fast Block Times]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/14/on-slow-and-fast-block-times</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/14/on-slow-and-fast-block-times</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 02:41:57 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the largest sources of confusion in the question of blockchain security is the precise effect of the block time. If one blockchain has a block time of 10 minutes, and the other has an estimated block time of 17 seconds, then what exactly does that mean? What is...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert – [Previous security patch can lead to invalid state root on Go clients with a specific transaction sequence – Fixed. Please update.]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/10/security-alert-previous-security-patch-can-lead-to-invalid-state-root-on-go-clients-with-a-specific-transaction-sequence-fixed-please-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/10/security-alert-previous-security-patch-can-lead-to-invalid-state-root-on-go-clients-with-a-specific-transaction-sequence-fixed-please-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:19:27 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;  Summary: Implementation bug in the go client may lead to invalid state  Affected client versions: Latest (unpatched) versions of Go client; v1.1.2, v1.0.4 tags and develop, master branches before September 9.  Likelihood: Low  Severity: High  Impact: High  Details: Go ethereum client does not...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[A message from Stephan Tual]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/03/a-message-from-stephan-tual</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/03/a-message-from-stephan-tual</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:27:15 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[To the wonderful Ethereum Community,  You often heard me say at conferences that Ethereum was not a company, a foundation, an implementation, or an individual. Ethereum is both an idea and an ideal, encompassing the first censorship-resistant network build specifically to enable those who need it the most to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert – [Implementation bug in Go clients causing increase in difficulty – Fixed – Miners check and update Go clients]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/03/security-alert-implementation-bug-in-go-clients-causing-increase-in-difficulty-fixed-miners-check-and-update-go-clients-if-necessary</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/03/security-alert-implementation-bug-in-go-clients-causing-increase-in-difficulty-fixed-miners-check-and-update-go-clients-if-necessary</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 01:44:08 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Implementation bug in the go client leads to steady increase of difficulty independent of hashing power.  Affected configurations: All Go client versions v1.0.x, v1.1.x, release and develop branches. The bug was introduced in a recent update and release through commit h...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Advisory [Implementation bugs in Go and Python clients can cause DoS – Fixed – Please update clients]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/02/security-advisory-implementations-bugs-in-go-and-python-clients-can-cause-dos</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/02/security-advisory-implementations-bugs-in-go-and-python-clients-can-cause-dos</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:24:05 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[State transition and consensus issue in geth client causes panic (crash) when processing a (valid) block with a specific combination of transactions, which may cause overall network instability if block is accepted and relayed by unaffected clients thus causing a DoS. This may happen in a block that contains transactions...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[devcon one postponed until further notice]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/02/devcon-one-postponed-until-further-notice</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/09/02/devcon-one-postponed-until-further-notice</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Unfortunately we were not able to secure the venue for devcon one in London on the dates desired (October 5th-8th). As a consequence we are postponing the event until further notice.  Please do not make travel plans at this time. Updates will be forthcoming on the devcon one website ....]]></description>
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            <category>Devcon</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Advisory [Insecurely configured geth can make funds remotely accessible]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/29/security-alert-insecurely-configured-geth-can-make-funds-remotely-accessible</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/29/security-alert-insecurely-configured-geth-can-make-funds-remotely-accessible</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:25:59 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Insecurely configured Ethereum clients with no firewall and unlocked accounts can lead to funds being accessed remotely by attackers.  Affected configurations: Issue reported for Geth, though all implementations incl. C++ and Python can in principle display this behavior if used insecurely; only for nodes which leave the JSON-RPC port...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Anti-Pre-Revelation Games]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/28/on-anti-pre-revelation-games</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/28/on-anti-pre-revelation-games</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:48:11 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An increasing number of proposed applications on top of Ethereum rely on some kind of incentivized, multi-party data provision - whether voting, random number collection, or other use cases where getting information from multiple parties to increase decentralization is highly desirable, but also where there is a strong risk of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Olympic Rewards Announced]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/26/olympic-rewards-announced</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/26/olympic-rewards-announced</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:30:34 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ETH DEV would like to thank everyone for their participation in the Olympic test network, which helped us greatly in stress testing, optimization, and finding bugs in the Ethereum clients, as well as determining what the limits of the current Ethereum system are. To that end, we are pleased to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security alert [consensus issue]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/20/security-alert-consensus-issue</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/20/security-alert-consensus-issue</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:26:23 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This alert is related to a consensus issue that occurred on the Frontier network at block 116,522, mined on 2015-08-20 at 14:59:16+02:00 – Issue has been fixed, see "Fix" below.  Impact: High  Issue description: State database consensus issue in geth with deletion of account data, which could happen during...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Analysis of the First 100000 Blocks]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/18/frontier-first-100k-blocks</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/18/frontier-first-100k-blocks</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:30:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 genesis, it took 29 seconds for the second block to appear, then 31 and 29 seconds for...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chain Reorganisation Depth Expectations]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/08/chain-reorganisation-depth-expectations</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/08/chain-reorganisation-depth-expectations</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 11:08:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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. These are our own expectations only and do not constitute any sort of guarantee. They are derived from theoretical considerations,...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Alert 1 [windows+alethzero]]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/07/security-alert-1-windowsalethzero-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/07/security-alert-1-windowsalethzero-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 19:08:38 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 below. Users of Frontier command line interface geth are unaffected.  Issue description: While setting privacy permissions on the keys directory,...]]></description>
            <category>Security</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Public and Private Blockchains]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/07/on-public-and-private-blockchains</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/07/on-public-and-private-blockchains</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 06:42:57 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 state machine secured by cryptoeconomics (eg. proof of work, proof of stake), it is also possible to create a system...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Protocol Update 1]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/04/ethereum-protocol-update-1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/04/ethereum-protocol-update-1</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:42:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 you should regenerate all of your keys NOW. Though some releases of the pre-alpha and alpha clients are secure,...]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Thawing Frontier]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/04/the-thawing-frontier</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/04/the-thawing-frontier</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 01:19:26 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 a miner, there is nothing to action....]]></description>
            <category>Protocol Announcements</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing Casper “the Friendly Ghost”]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/01/introducing-casper-friendly-ghost</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/08/01/introducing-casper-friendly-ghost</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 19:00:40 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 details of the spec, we do have consensus on many properties of the proof-of-stake protocol that will likely be implemented...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing the New Foundation Board and Executive Director]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/30/announcing-new-foundation-board-executive-director</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/30/announcing-new-foundation-board-executive-director</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:33:36 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 allow us to focus on our next phase of development.  The Ethereum Foundation is a not for profit (‘Stiftung’)...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Launches]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/30/ethereum-launches</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:32:48 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[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 joins me in thanking each and everyone of you for your support during the past year and half. It’s...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A few last minute notes…]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/30/a-few-last-minute-notes</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:04:20 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Genesis is roughly 4 hours away, here are a few last minute pointers for those preparing:  All clients are functional on all platforms and build to completion: http://ethereum-buildboard.meteor.com/  Please note that it will take a little while (10-1000 blocks) before the network stabilises. This is a marathon, not...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Final Steps]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/27/final-steps</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/27/final-steps</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:20:01 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An update as promised: all systems are now ‘Go’ on the technical side (pun intended) and we intend to release Frontier this week.  Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on my previous blog post. What became apparent is that prior to the big day, many of you wanted...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frontier is coming - what to expect, and how to prepare]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/22/frontier-is-coming-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepare</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/22/frontier-is-coming-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepare</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:49:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are only days away from launching 'Frontier', the first milestone in the release of the Ethereum project. Frontier will be followed by 'Homestead', 'Metropolis' and 'Serenity' throughout the coming year, each adding new features and improving the user friendliness and security of the platform....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How do you know Ethereum is secure?]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/07/know-ethereum-secure</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/07/know-ethereum-secure</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 02:07:17 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As I'm writing this, I’m sitting in the London office and pondering how to give you a good overview about the work we’ve been doing to secure Ethereum’s protocols, clients and p2p-network. As you might remember, I joined the Ethereum team at the end of last year to manage the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Abstraction]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/05/on-abstraction</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/07/05/on-abstraction</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2015 11:06:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Gavin Wood, Vlad Zamfir, our security auditors and others for some of the thoughts that led to the conclusions described in this post  One of Ethereum's goals from the start, and arguably its entire raison d'être, is the high degree of abstraction that the platform offers....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[State Tree Pruning]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/06/26/state-tree-pruning</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/06/26/state-tree-pruning</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:05:53 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the important issues that has been brought up over the course of the Olympic stress-net release is the large amount of data that clients are required to store; over little more than three months of operation, and particularly during the last month, the amount of data in each...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum messaging for the masses (including fathers) - via infographic]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/06/21/ethereum-messaging-masses-including-fathers-via-infographic</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/06/21/ethereum-messaging-masses-including-fathers-via-infographic</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2015 23:36:03 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When I started evangelizing bitcoin and blockchain tech back in 2012 my Dad was a hard sell. There was the common skepticism and typical counters of “what’s backing it?”, “what can be done with it?” and “what the heck is cryptography?" Back then my pitch wasn’t refined and the learning...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Another Ethereum ÐΞV Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/06/15/another-ethereum-dev-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/06/15/another-ethereum-dev-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Been a while, I know, but then these are rather busy days.  I'm writing this from a Starbucks in Shanghai sitting behind the Great Firewall, able to peep out only occasionally. I've been in Asia with Marek for the last couple of weeks, mainly for meetups, workshops and technical...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Problem of Censorship]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/06/06/the-problem-of-censorship</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/06/06/the-problem-of-censorship</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2015 10:35:12 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the interesting problems in designing effective blockchain technologies is, how can we ensure that the systems remain censorship-proof? Although lots of work has been done in cryptoeconomics in order to ensure that blockchains continue pumping out new blocks, and particularly to prevent blocks from being reverted, substantially less...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Business Imperative Behind the Ethereum Vision]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/05/24/the-business-imperative-behind-the-ethereum-vision</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/05/24/the-business-imperative-behind-the-ethereum-vision</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2015 04:35:22 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Jeffrey Wilcke for countless revisions feedback, picks at their brains, and helping me read their tea leaves....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcing eπ: Ethereum on Raspberry Pi Programme]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/05/14/announcing-e%CF%80-ethereum-on-raspberry-pi-programme</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/05/14/announcing-e%CF%80-ethereum-on-raspberry-pi-programme</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2015 20:03:22 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As part of our drive to introduce Ethereum to the far corners of the world, not to mention demonstrate the potential for embedded blockchain technology (even without light-nodes) I'm happy to announce the roll-out of our "eπ" Ethereum-on-Raspberry Pi programme.  As part of our programme, we're offering a full-kit...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Olympic: Frontier Pre-Release]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/05/09/olympic-frontier-pre-release</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/05/09/olympic-frontier-pre-release</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2015 15:11:09 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What began all the way back on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to a close: we are happy to announce the release of the ninth and last in the Ethereum Proof-of-Concept series.  We invite the community to participate in the ongoing Proof-of-Concept IX testnet in our present...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The end of the beginning…]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/05/02/the-end-of-the-beginning</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/05/02/the-end-of-the-beginning</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2015 17:44:52 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As part of our tiered release process, we will soon be beginning the final phase prior to our Frontier release. So far our ongoing Proof-of-Concept IX testnet has been running smoothly for around a month with dozens of nodes around the world, well over 200,000 blocks and including clients on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Visions, Part 2: The Problem of Trust]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/27/visions-part-2-the-problem-of-trust</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/27/visions-part-2-the-problem-of-trust</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:35:34 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to: Robert Sams, Gavin Wood, Mark Karpeles and countless cryptocurrency critics on online forums for helping to develop the thoughts behind this article  If you were to ask the average cryptocurrency or blockchain enthusiast what the key single fundamental advantage of the technology is, there is a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Visions, Part 1: The Value of Blockchain Technology]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/13/visions-part-1-the-value-of-blockchain-technology</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/13/visions-part-1-the-value-of-blockchain-technology</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 06:25:36 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the questions that has perhaps been central to my own research in blockchain technology is: ultimately, what is it even useful for? Why do we need blockchains for anything, what kinds of services should be run on blockchain-like architectures, and why specifically should services be run on blockchains...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation Open Call re: Board Selection]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/10/ethereum-foundation-open-call-re-board-selection</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/10/ethereum-foundation-open-call-re-board-selection</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:51:33 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With Ethereum getting close to its first official launch with Frontier, we have spent the last week of February at our holon in Switzerland discussing what the future of the Ethereum Foundation is going to look like. Since the start of the project, one of our primary dreams has been...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Foundation is hiring an Executive Director]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/08/ethereum-foundation-is-hiring-an-executive-director</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/08/ethereum-foundation-is-hiring-an-executive-director</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:33:14 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Stiftung Ethereum, the Zug, Switzerland-based Ethereum Foundation --ethereum.org, is seeking to immediately fill the Executive Director position within the Foundation.  The role involves defining and discharging the day-to-day business of the Foundation and leading the organization at the executive level. The successful candidate will have significant experience in corporate...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[DEVgrants: Here to Help]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/07/devgrants-help</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/07/devgrants-help</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:24:23 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Few would argue against the fact that Ethereum has been gifted with one of the most diverse and thoughtful communities ever gathered around any open source project. Fueled by what can only be described as impassioned determination, developers from all walks of life have risked their time and credibility to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Builders: Tapping Into The Collaborative Potential]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/06/ethereum-builders-supercharging-github</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/06/ethereum-builders-supercharging-github</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:50:03 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland.  During the last few months I’ve been researching and testing a number of collaborative tools, constantly...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blockchain Scalability: Chain-Fibers Redux]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/05/blockchain-scalability-chain-fibers-redux</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/05/blockchain-scalability-chain-fibers-redux</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 14:28:13 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[History  I came up with the first seed of this idea while chatting to Janislav Malahov in Berlin in Spring 2014. Unfortunately, the original article I wrote was lost along with my laptop when it was stolen in Vienna. After chatting over the principles with Vitalik more recently, we...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bazaar Services]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/05/bazaar-services</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/05/bazaar-services</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 01:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in judging the present through the knowledge of the past. In the past 25 or so years one of the biggest trends in business and technology was what might loosely be termed as the open source revolution. The notion of it being good business to share...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Implementing Vitalik’s vision]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/02/implementing-vitaliks-vision</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/02/implementing-vitaliks-vision</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:54:15 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Although the core concept was proven last summer when lead developers Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, and Jeffrey Wilcke initiated the PoC (proof-of-concept) series in Python, C++, and Go, a lot of engineering effort has gone to solidifying these implementations. We're all anxious to release a stable command line client and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum’s unexpected future direction]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/01/ethereums-unexpected-future-direction</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/04/01/ethereums-unexpected-future-direction</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:18:54 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ethereum has been preparing what we consider to be the most exciting digital alliance since IBM and Microsoft partnered so successfully on the IBM PC. We know that you’ve been anticipating great things from Ethereum and we are delighted to present you with this exciting and unexpected news.  As...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Builders: A Proposed Experiment]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/20/ethereum-builders-experiment</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/20/ethereum-builders-experiment</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:54:42 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland.  In the early days of the project I concentrated my attention on the community side and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jutta’s update on bug bounty program and security audit]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/20/juttas-update-bug-bounty-program-security-audit</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/20/juttas-update-bug-bounty-program-security-audit</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:18:25 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi, Jutta writing again – I initially introduced myself when we started the bounty program earlier this year and I’m happy to provide you with an update on what’s happening on the security side prior and throughout launch.  We have had some high quality submissions by bounty hunters –...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mihai’s Ethereum Project Update. The First Year.]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/14/ethereum-the-first-year</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/14/ethereum-the-first-year</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:26:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Into the ether  Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the Vice President of the Ethereum Foundation and Director of Ethereum Switzerland.  In the early days of the project I concentrated my attention on the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Getting to the Frontier]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/12/getting-to-the-frontier</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/12/getting-to-the-frontier</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:36:27 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[So first some background. We’ve already covered a little about what to expect from Frontier in the Ethereum Launch Process blog post and Gav has given us a comprehensive overview of the state of the development effort. You can also read about some of the ongoing security work, including the bug...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ethereum Development Process]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/05/ethereum-development-process</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/05/ethereum-development-process</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[So I'm not sure if this kind of development methodology has ever been applied to such an extreme before so I figured I'd document it. In a nutshell, it's sort of like test-driven triplet-programming development.  While speed-developing our alpha codebase, four of us sat around a table in the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ethereum Launch Process]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/03/ethereum-launch-process</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/03/ethereum-launch-process</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:09:45 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I’m Vinay Gupta, the newly minted release coordinator for Ethereum. I’ve been working with the comms team on strategy, and have now come aboard to help smooth the release process (some of the content in this blog is out of date, please see this link for the most up to date...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update V]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/02/gavs-ethereum-dev-update-v</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/03/02/gavs-ethereum-dev-update-v</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:00:35 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I was woken by Vitalik's call at 5:55 this morning; pitch black outside, nighttime was still upon us. Nonetheless, it was time to leave and this week had best start on the right foot.  The 25-minute walk in darkness from the Zug-based headquarters to the train station was wet....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Subjectivity / Exploitability Tradeoff]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/02/14/subjectivity-exploitability-tradeoff</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/02/14/subjectivity-exploitability-tradeoff</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2015 09:31:23 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the issues inherent in many kinds of consensus architectures is that although they can be made to be robust against attackers or collusions up to a certain size, if an attacker gets large enough they are still, fundamentally, exploitable. If attackers in a proof of work system have...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The P + epsilon Attack]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/28/p-epsilon-attack</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/28/p-epsilon-attack</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:52:33 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Andrew Miller for coming up with this attack, and to Zack Hess, Vlad Zamfir and Paul Sztorc for discussion and responses  One of the more interesting surprises in cryptoeconomics in recent weeks came from an attack on SchellingCoin conceived by Andrew Miller earlier this month. Although...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Superrationality and DAOs]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/23/superrationality-daos</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/23/superrationality-daos</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:11:34 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Warning: this post contains crazy ideas. Myself describing a crazy idea should NOT be construed as implying that (i) I am certain that the idea is correct/viable, (ii) I have an even >50% probability estimate that the idea is correct/viable, or that (iii) "Ethereum" endorses any of this in any...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Light Clients and Proof of Stake]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/10/light-clients-proof-stake</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/10/light-clients-proof-stake</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2015 04:39:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir and Jae Kwon for many of the ideas described in this post  Aside from the primary debate around weak subjectivity, one of the important secondary arguments raised against proof of stake is the issue that proof of stake algorithms are much harder to make...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Community Survey]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/09/ethereum-community-survey</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/09/ethereum-community-survey</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2015 13:01:49 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Back in November, we created a quick survey for the Ethereum community to help us gauge how we're doing, what can be improved, and how best we can engage with you all as we move forward towards the genesis block release in March. We feel it's very important to enable...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jeff’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update II]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/06/jeffs-ethereum-dev-update-2</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2015/01/06/jeffs-ethereum-dev-update-2</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:29:05 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[First of all, happy new year! What a year it has been. With a little luck we'll surpass last year with an even more awesome year. It's been too long since I've given an update on my side of things and that of the Go team and mostly due to a lack...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Silos]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/31/silos</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/31/silos</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:01:43 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the criticisms that many people have made about the current direction of the cryptocurrency space is the increasing amount of fragmentation that we are seeing. What was earlier perhaps a more tightly bound community centered around developing the common infrastructure of Bitcoin is now increasingly a collection of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secret Sharing DAOs: The Other Crypto 2.0]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/26/secret-sharing-daos-crypto-2-0</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/26/secret-sharing-daos-crypto-2-0</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:27:04 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The crypto 2.0 industry has been making strong progress in the past year developing blockchain technology, including the formalization and in some cases realization of proof of stake designs like Slasher and DPOS, various forms of <a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A call to all the bug bounty hunters out there…]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/18/call-bug-bounty-hunters</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/18/call-bug-bounty-hunters</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:09:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi, I’m Jutta! As some of you might have read in earlier posts, I’ve recently been busy setting up a security audit prior to the Ethereum genesis block release. Ethereum will launch following a world-class review by experts in IT security, cryptography and blockchain technology. Prior to the launch, we will...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum ÐΞV: What are we doing?]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/17/ethereum-dev</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/17/ethereum-dev</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:29:20 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[OK so a minor update about what we are (and are not) doing here at Ethereum DEV.  We are, first and foremost, developing a robust quasi-Turing-complete blockchain. This is known as Ethereum. Aside from having quasi-Turing-completeness, it delivers on a number of other important considerations, stemming from the fact...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update IV]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/15/gavs-ethereum-dev-update-iv</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/15/gavs-ethereum-dev-update-iv</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:25:29 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Time for another update! So quite a bit has happened following ÐΞVcon-0, our internal developer's conference. The conference itself was a great time to get all the developers together and really get to know each other, dissipate a lot of information (back to back presentations for 5 days!) and chat...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ÐΞVcon-0 Recap]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/05/devcon-0-recap</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/05/devcon-0-recap</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Day 1 - Monday 24th Nov - ÐΞV: Mission and Processes The first day of ÐΞVcon-0 kicked off early at 7am with the Ethereum UK communications team arriving at the venue (Ethereum Dev UG’s workspace in Kreuzberg, Berlin) to set up the 4K high quality recording equipment and arrange the...]]></description>
            <category>Events</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[From inside Ethereum ÐΞVhub Berlin]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/02/inside-ethereum-devhub-berlin</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/12/02/inside-ethereum-devhub-berlin</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:23:15 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the first proper day of ÐΞVhub Berlin being open, following the first Ethereum internal developers' symposium ÐΞVcon-0. I want to post a few images to let you gauge the mood here.    Henning, Marek, Viktor and Felix hacking on the couch  <img class="aligncenter...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:24:47 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Proof of stake continues to be one of the most controversial discussions in the cryptocurrency space. Although the idea has many undeniable benefits, including efficiency, a larger security margin and future-proof immunity to hardware centralization concerns, proof of stake algorithms tend to be substantially more complex than proof of work-based...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Bitcoin Maximalism, and Currency and Platform Network Effects]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/20/bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/20/bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:09:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the latest ideas that has come to recently achieve some prominence in parts of the Bitcoin community is the line of thinking that has been described by both myself and others as "Bitcoin dominance maximalism" or just "Bitcoin maximalism" for short - essentially, the idea that an environment...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update III]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/18/gavs-dev-update-iii</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/18/gavs-dev-update-iii</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:17:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I'm Gavin Wood, a co-founder of Ethereum and, along with Vitalik Buterin and Jeffrey Wilcke, one of the three directors of the Eth Dev, the NFP organisation that is managing the development (under contract from Ethereum Suisse) of the Ethereum blockchain. This is a small update to let you all...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scalability, Part 3: On Metacoin History and Multichain]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/13/scalability-part-3-metacoin-history-multichain</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/13/scalability-part-3-metacoin-history-multichain</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:02:36 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for much of the thinking behind multi-chain cryptoeconomic paradigms  First off, a history lesson. In October 2013, when I was visiting Israel as part of my trip around the Bitcoin world, I came to know the core teams behind the colored coins and Mastercoin...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Search for a Stable Cryptocurrency]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/11/search-stable-cryptocurrency</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/11/search-stable-cryptocurrency</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:24:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Robert Sams for the development of Seignorage Shares and insights regarding how to correctly value volatile coins in multi-currency systems  Note: we are not planning on adding price stabilization to ether; our philosophy has always been to keep ether simple to minimize black-swan risks. Results of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Community and Adoption Update - Week 1]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/03/stephans-ethereum-community-adoption-update-week-1</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/03/stephans-ethereum-community-adoption-update-week-1</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:50:57 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi, I'm Stephan Tual, and I've been responsible for Ethereum's adoption and education since January as CCO. I'm also leading our UK ÐΞV hub, located at Co-Work in Putney (South West London). I feel really privileged to be able to lead the effort on the communication strategy at ÐΞV. For the very...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jeff’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update I]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/02/jeffs-ethereum-dev-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/02/jeffs-ethereum-dev-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:48:02 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I thought it was about time I'd give an update on my side of things for those interested in knowing how we're doing on the Dutch side. My name is Jeff, a founder of Ethereum and one of the three directors (alongside Vitalik and Gavin) of Ethereum ÐΞV, the development entity...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update II]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/01/gavs-ethereum-dev-update-ii</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/11/01/gavs-ethereum-dev-update-ii</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:58:57 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Well... what a busy two weeks. I thought it about time to make another update for any of you who might be interested in how we're doing. If you don't already know, I'm Gavin, a founder of Ethereum and one of the three directors (alongside Vitalik and Jeffrey) of Ethereum...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Information-Theoretic Account of Secure Brainwallets]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/10/23/information-theoretic-account-secure-brainwallets</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/10/23/information-theoretic-account-secure-brainwallets</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:23:15 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An important and controversial topic in the area of personal wallet security is the concept of "brainwallets" - storing funds using a private key generated from a password memorized entirely in one's head. Theoretically, brainwallets have the potential to provide almost utopian guarantee of security for long-term savings: for as...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scalability, Part 2: Hypercubes]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/10/21/scalability-part-2-hypercubes</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/10/21/scalability-part-2-hypercubes</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:01:51 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir, Chris Barnett and Dominic Williams for ideas and inspiration  In a recent blog post I outlined some partial solutions to scalability, all of which fit into the umbrella of Ethereum 1.0 as it stands. Specialized micropayment protocols such as channels and probabilistic payment systems...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gav’s ÐΞV Update I: Where Ethereum’s at]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/10/17/gavs-dev-update-ethereums</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/10/17/gavs-dev-update-ethereums</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:58:46 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Who are you?  I'm Gav - together with Jeffrey Wilcke and Vitalik Buterin, I'm one third of the ultimate leadership of Ethereum ÐΞV. ÐΞV is a UK software firm that is under a non-profit-making agreement with the Ethereum Foundation to create version 1.0 of the Web Three software stack....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Slasher Ghost, and Other Developments in Proof of Stake]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/10/03/slasher-ghost-developments-proof-stake</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/10/03/slasher-ghost-developments-proof-stake</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 09:04:27 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir and Zack Hess for ongoing research and discussions on proof-of-stake algorithms and their own input into Slasher-like proposals  One of the hardest problems in cryptocurrency development is that of devising effective consensus algorithms. Certainly, relatively passable default options exist. At the very least it...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scalability, Part 1: Building on Top]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/09/17/scalability-part-1-building-top</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/09/17/scalability-part-1-building-top</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:01:25 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks, I am going to make a series of posts that is going to be a large overview of the possibilities for scalability of Ethereum, intending to create a precise understanding of the problems at bay in implementing a scalable cryptocurrency infrastructure, and where the least-bad...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[crypto renaissance]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/09/02/crypto-renaissance</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/09/02/crypto-renaissance</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 22:40:14 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay  January 3rd 2009 marked the beginning of a new era. The invention of the blockchain is a milestone in technology -- the string of characters 36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2 being just one of the side effects triggered by it. Thanks...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Software and Bounded Rationality]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/09/02/software-bounded-rationality</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/09/02/software-bounded-rationality</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:02:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the key properties that is usually sought for in a cryptoeconomic algorithm, whether a blockchain consensus algorithm such a proof of work or proof of stake, a reputation system or a trading process for something like data transmission or file storage, is the ideal of incentive-compatibility - the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[State of Ethereum: August Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/27/state-ethereum-august-edition</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/27/state-ethereum-august-edition</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:40:38 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Development of Ethereum has been progressing increasingly quickly this past month. The release of PoC5 ("proof of concept five") last month the day before the sale marked an important event for the project, as for the first time we had two clients, one written in C++ and one in Go,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Introduction to Futarchy]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/21/introduction-futarchy</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/21/introduction-futarchy</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:30:48 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the more interesting long-term practical benefits of the technology and concept behind decentralized autonomous organizations is that DAOs allow us to very quickly prototype and experiment with an aspect of our social interactions that is so far arguably falling behind our rapid advancements in information and social technology...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[building the decentralized web 3.0]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/18/building-decentralized-web</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/18/building-decentralized-web</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:18:13 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: A Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/16/secret-sharing-erasure-coding-guide-aspiring-dropbox-decentralizer</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/16/secret-sharing-erasure-coding-guide-aspiring-dropbox-decentralizer</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2014 01:56:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the more exciting applications of decentralized computing that have aroused a considerable amount of interest in the past year is the concept of an incentivized decentralized online file storage system. Currently, if you want your files or data securely backed up "in the cloud", you have three choices...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Announcement on planned withdrawal from exodus]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/08/announcement-on-planned-exodus-withdrawal</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/08/announcement-on-planned-exodus-withdrawal</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:58:31 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Now that the first two weeks of the ether sale are over, and over 50 million ETH has been sold, we intend to soon make a transaction to begin using the funds to repay loans and kickstart the process of setting up our development hubs and expanding our staff. We...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ether Sale: A Statistical Overview]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/08/ether-sale-a-statistical-overview</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/08/ether-sale-a-statistical-overview</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:23:58 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The first two weeks of the ether sale are over, and we have to date received over 25000 BTC from selling over 50 million ETH. This marks the largest cryptographic token sale to date, and with the two endowments places ETH as being the token with the 8th highest total...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Programming Society with Asm: Gavin Wood at Assembly 2014]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/06/programming-society-with-asm-gavin-wood-at-assembly-2014</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/08/06/programming-society-with-asm-gavin-wood-at-assembly-2014</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 02:57:35 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ether Purchase Troubleshooting]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/23/ether-purchase-troubleshooting</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/23/ether-purchase-troubleshooting</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:05:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Although we hope that the ether purchasing experience goes smoothly for everyone, we recognize that there will always be situations where things do not quite go as planned. Perhaps your internet connection dies in the middle of your purchase. Perhaps you accidentally click a back button or some link or...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Launching the Ether Sale]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/22/launching-the-ether-sale</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/22/launching-the-ether-sale</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:00:44 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[First of all, I would like to thank the community, and especially those close to the project who have in many cases abandoned their jobs to dedicate their time to it, for their extreme patience regarding the launch of the ether sale. We have been promising that the sale would...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum and Oracles]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/22/ethereum-and-oracles</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/22/ethereum-and-oracles</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:27:47 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the more popular proposals for implementing smart contracts differently from the way they are typically presented in Ethereum is through the concept of oracles. Essentially, instead of a long-running contract being run directly on the blockchain, all funds that are intended to go into the contract would instead...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[the ethereum project: learning to dream with open minds]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/14/the-ethereum-project</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/14/the-ethereum-project</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:37:18 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” Friedrich Nietzsche  Ethereum as a project is more than just a technology, even if technology is at its core. In the rush of creating, co-creating and debugging everything you sometimes...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Toward a 12-second Block Time]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/11/toward-a-12-second-block-time</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/11/toward-a-12-second-block-time</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:52:25 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the annoyances of the blockchain as a decentralized platform is the sheer length of delay before a transaction gets finalized. One confirmation in the Bitcoin network takes ten minutes on average, but in reality due to statistical effects when one sends a transaction one can only expect a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Background on the mechanics of the ether pre-sale]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/09/how-to-make-a-purchase-in-the-ether-presale</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/09/how-to-make-a-purchase-in-the-ether-presale</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:16:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[During the run-up to the ether sale we will be releasing a series of blog posts regarding our development plans and intended organizational structure. Today we describe some of the background details of the ether sale module.  The sale module will be displayed on our website at https://www.ethereum.org for the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Stake]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/05/stake</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/07/05/stake</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2014 16:41:50 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The topic of mining centralization has been a very important one over the past few weeks. GHASH.io, the Bitcoin network's largest mining pool, has for the past month directed over 40% of the Bitcoin network's hashpower, and two weeks ago briefly spiked over 50%, theoretically giving it monopoly control over...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Advanced Contract Programming Example: SchellingCoin]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/06/30/advanced-contract-programming-example-schellingcoin</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/06/30/advanced-contract-programming-example-schellingcoin</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:48:37 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Writing effective decentralized applications in Ethereum is at the same time easy and hard. The easy part we all know: rather than needing to create your own blockchain, manage complicated database code, deal with networking and NAT traversal, or any of the other complexities involving writing a peer-to-peer app from...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Mining]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/06/19/mining</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/06/19/mining</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:57:10 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK, and maybe not, have not yet decided to collude with each other.  There has been a large amount of ruckus in the past week about the issue of mining...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Project Update]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/06/05/ethereum-project-update</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/06/05/ethereum-project-update</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:39:47 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Development of the Ethereum project has gone very well over the months since inception.  The core activity — development of the software platform — is on track and many developers around the world are starting to build small, exploratory distributed applications on the platform, even though we are still not...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[What If Ethereum Lived on a Treap? Or, Blockchains Charging Rent]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/27/what-if-ethereum-lived-on-a-treap-or-blockchains-charging-rent</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/27/what-if-ethereum-lived-on-a-treap-or-blockchains-charging-rent</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 09:42:54 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Although truly solving blockchain scalability fundamentally, that is to say figuring out a solution to the problem that every node must process every transaction, is a very hard problem, and all suggested solutions rely on either highly advanced cryptography or intricate multi-blockchain architectures, partial solutions that provide a constant-factor improvement...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Long-Term Cryptocurrency Distribution Models]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/24/on-long-term-cryptocurrency-distribution-models</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/24/on-long-term-cryptocurrency-distribution-models</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 09:45:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the challenges when creating a new cryptocurrency is figuring out what the distribution model is going to be. Who is going to receive the currency units, at what time, and what is the mechanism that decides? Despite the crucial importance of this question, there has actually been comparatively...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Long-Range Attacks: The Serious Problem With Adaptive Proof of Work]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/15/long-range-attacks-the-serious-problem-with-adaptive-proof-of-work</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/15/long-range-attacks-the-serious-problem-with-adaptive-proof-of-work</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 09:45:48 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Our current proof of work design, blockchain-based proof of work, is the second iteration of our attempt to create a mining algorithm that is guaranteed to remain CPU-friendly and resistant to optimization by specialized hardware (ASICs) in the long term. Our first attempt, Dagger, tried to take the idea of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Xbox and Ethereum’s Dual Mandate]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/15/the-xbox-and-ethereums-dual-mandate</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/15/the-xbox-and-ethereums-dual-mandate</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 09:40:18 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[What is Ethereum? Project, Platform, Fuel, Stack.]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/14/what-is-ethereum-project-platform-fuel-stack</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/14/what-is-ethereum-project-platform-fuel-stack</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 09:46:51 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 09:49:11 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the most popular topics in the digital consensus space (a new term for cryptocurrency 2.0 that I’m beta-testing) is the concept of decentralized autonomous entities. There are now a number of groups rapidly getting involved in the space, including Bitshares (also known as Invictus Innovations) developing “decentralized autonomous...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Serpent upgrades: More Fun Stuff]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/02/serpent-upgrades-more-fun-stuff</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/05/02/serpent-upgrades-more-fun-stuff</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 09:49:42 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the past two weeks our primary focus has been getting all of the clients updated to PoC5 compatibility, and it definitely has been a long road. Among the changes to the VM include:   	The new init/code mechanism: basically, when you create a contract, the code provided will...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Decentralized Protocol Monetization and Forks]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/04/30/decentralized-protocol-monetization-and-forks</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/04/30/decentralized-protocol-monetization-and-forks</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:56:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The idea of releasing a new currency as a mechanism for funding protocol development is perhaps one of the most interesting economic innovations to come out of the cryptocurrency space. In the past twenty years, we have seen a growing centralization in the protocols that underlie the internet, with the...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Issuance Model in Ethereum]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/04/10/the-issuance-model-in-ethereum</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/04/10/the-issuance-model-in-ethereum</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:56:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ether (ETH), the cryptofuel that powers distributed applications on the Ethereum platform, will be issued at a constant annual linear rate via the block mining process. This rate is 0.3 times the total amount of ETH that will be purchased in the pre-sale.  While the best metaphor for ETH...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pyethereum and Serpent Programming Guide]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/04/10/pyethereum-and-serpent-programming-guide</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/04/10/pyethereum-and-serpent-programming-guide</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The content of this tutorial is intended to apply to PoC5. Most of the instructions given below will not work in the older PoC4 implementations of AlethZero (C++) and Ethereal (Go)  Over the last few weeks, we have made a large number of changes to the Ethereum protocol. POC4,...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[SchellingCoin: A Minimal-Trust Universal Data Feed]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/03/28/schellingcoin-a-minimal-trust-universal-data-feed</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/03/28/schellingcoin-a-minimal-trust-universal-data-feed</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:03:37 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the main applications of Ethereum that people have been interested in is financial contracts and derivatives. Although financial derivatives have acquired a reputation as a highly risky and destabilizing device with the sole function of enriching speculators, the underlying concept in fact has a number of legitimate uses,...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Latest EVM: “Ethereum Is A Trust-Free Closure System”]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/03/20/the-latest-evm-ethereum-is-a-trust-free-closure-system</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/03/20/the-latest-evm-ethereum-is-a-trust-free-closure-system</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:04:28 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks our lead C++ developer, Gavin Wood, and myself have been spending a lot of time meeting the local Ethereum community in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. We were very excited to see such a large amount of interest in our project, and the fact that...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Question of Mining]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/03/20/the-question-of-mining</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/03/20/the-question-of-mining</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:00:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There are a lot of interesting changes to the Ethereum protocol that are in the works, which will hopefully improve the power of the system, add further features such as light-client friendliness and a higher degree of extensibility, and make Ethereum contracts easier to code. Theoretically, none of these changes...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[DAOs Are Not Scary, Part 2: Reducing Barriers]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/03/01/daos-are-not-scary-part-2-reducing-barriers</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/03/01/daos-are-not-scary-part-2-reducing-barriers</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2014 10:05:22 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the last installment of this series, we talked about what “smart contracts” (or, perhaps more accurately, “self-enforcing contracts”) are, and discussed in detail the two main mechanisms through which these contracts can have “force”: smart property and “factum” currencies. We also discussed the limits of smart contracts, and how...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[DAOs Are Not Scary, Part 1: Self-Enforcing Contracts And Factum Law]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/24/daos-are-not-scary-part-1-self-enforcing-contracts-and-factum-law</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/24/daos-are-not-scary-part-1-self-enforcing-contracts-and-factum-law</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:05:41 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Many of the concepts that we promote over in Ethereum land may seem incredibly futuristic, and perhaps even frightening, at times. We talk about so-called “smart contracts” that execute themselves without any need, or any opportunity, for human intervention or involvement, people forming Skynet-like “decentralized autonomous organizations” that live entirely...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Scalability and Decentralization Updates]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/18/ethereum-scalability-and-decentralization-updates</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/18/ethereum-scalability-and-decentralization-updates</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:06:42 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Scalability is now at the forefront of the technical discussion in the cryptocurrency scene. The Bitcoin blockchain is currently over 12 GB in size, requiring a period of several days for a new bitcoind node to fully synchronize, the UTXO set that must be stored in RAM is approaching 500...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Important Statement regarding the Ether pre-sale]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/13/important-statement-regarding-the-ether-pre-sale</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/13/important-statement-regarding-the-ether-pre-sale</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:07:35 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ethereum Project has had the incredible privilege to launch its PoC testnet and engage the crypto-currency community over the past two months. During our experiences, we’ve encountered a lot of passionate support and wonderful questions that have helped us refine our thoughts and goals including the process we will...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Not Just Use X? An Instructive Example from Bitcoin]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/09/why-not-just-use-x-an-instructive-example-from-bitcoin</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/09/why-not-just-use-x-an-instructive-example-from-bitcoin</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:08:53 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell writes the following on Reddit:  There is a design flaw in the Bitcoin protocol where its possible for a third party to take a valid transaction of yours and mutate it in a way which leaves it valid and functionally identical but with a different...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cryptographic Code Obfuscation: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Are About to Take a Huge Leap Forward]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/08/cryptographic-code-obfuscation-decentralized-autonomous-organizations-are-about-to-take-a-huge-leap-forward</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/08/cryptographic-code-obfuscation-decentralized-autonomous-organizations-are-about-to-take-a-huge-leap-forward</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:09:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain notwithstanding, perhaps the first major breakthrough after blinding and zero-knowledge proofs is fully homomorphic encryption, a technology which allows you to upload your data onto a server in an encrypted form so...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Thoughts on Scripting and Future-Compatibility]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/05/more-thoughts-on-scripting-and-future-compatibility</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/05/more-thoughts-on-scripting-and-future-compatibility</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:09:42 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[My previous post introducing Ethereum Script 2.0 was met with a number of responses, some highly supportive, others suggesting that we switch to their own preferred stack-based / assembly-based / functional paradigm, and offering various specific criticisms that we are looking hard at. Perhaps the strongest criticism this time came...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introducing Ethereum Script 2.0]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/03/introducing-ethereum-script-2-0</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/03/introducing-ethereum-script-2-0</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This post will provide the groundwork for a major rework of the Ethereum scripting language, which will substantially modify the way ES works although still keeping many of the core components working in the exact same way. The rework is necessary as a result of multiple concerns which have been...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Transaction Fees, And The Fallacy of Market-Based Solutions]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/01/on-transaction-fees-and-the-fallacy-of-market-based-solutions</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/02/01/on-transaction-fees-and-the-fallacy-of-market-based-solutions</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2014 10:10:48 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Of all the parts of the Ethereum protocol, aside from the mining function the fee structure is perhaps the least set in stone. The current values, with one crypto operation taking 20 base fees, a new transaction taking 100 base fees, etc, are little more than semi-educated guesses, and harder...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Conference, Alpha Testnet and Ether Pre-sale Updates]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/01/29/conference-alpha-testnet-and-ether-pre-sale-updates</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/01/29/conference-alpha-testnet-and-ether-pre-sale-updates</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:11:26 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Important notice: any information from this post regarding the ether sale is highly outdated and probably inaccurate. Please only consult the latest blog posts and official materials at ethereum.org for information on the sale  Ethereum received an incredible response at the Miami Bitcoin Conference. We traveled there anticipating many...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethereum: Now Going Public]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/01/23/ethereum-now-going-public</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/01/23/ethereum-now-going-public</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:12:18 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I first wrote the initial draft of the Ethereum whitepaper on a cold day in San Francisco in November, as a culmination of months of thought and often frustrating work into an area that we have come to call “cryptocurrency 2.0″ – in short, using the Bitcoin blockchain for more...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Slasher: A Punitive Proof-of-Stake Algorithm]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/01/15/slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2014/01/15/slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:12:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The purpose of this post is not to say that Ethereum will be using Slasher in place of Dagger as its main mining function. Rather, Slasher is a useful construct to have in our war chest in case proof of stake mining becomes substantially more popular or a compelling reason...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bootstrapping a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation, Part 3: Identity Corp]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2013/12/31/bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-3-identity-corp</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2013/12/31/bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-3-identity-corp</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 22:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the first two parts of this series, we talked about what the basic workings of a decentralized autonomous corporation might look like, and what kinds of challenges it might need to deal with to be effective. However, there is still one question that we have not answered: what might...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bootstrapping An Autonomous Decentralized Corporation, Part 2: Interacting With the World]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2013/12/31/bootstrapping-an-autonomous-decentralized-corporation-part-2-interacting-with-the-world</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2013/12/31/bootstrapping-an-autonomous-decentralized-corporation-part-2-interacting-with-the-world</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the first part of this series, we talked about how the internet allows us to create decentralized corporations, automatons that exist entirely as decentralized networks over the internet, carrying out the computations that keep them “alive” over thousands of servers. As it turns out, these networks can even maintain...]]></description>
            <category>Research &amp; Development</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bootstrapping A Decentralized Autonomous Corporation: Part I]]></title>
            <link>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2013/12/31/bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i</link>
            <guid>https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2013/12/31/bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:00:37 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Corporations, US presidential candidate Mitt Romney reminds us, are people. Whether or not you agree with the conclusions that his partisans draw from that claim, the statement certainly carries a large amount of truth. What is a corporation, after all, but a certain group of people working together under a...]]></description>
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