Solidity optimizer bug

Posted by Martin Swende on May 3, 2017

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. Background The bug in question concerned how the optimizer optimizes on constants in the byte code. By “byte code constants”,... [Read More]

Geth 1.6 – Puppeth Master

Posted by Péter Szilágyi on April 14, 2017

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! [Read More]

Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1 (Boring Edition)

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on April 7, 2017

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... [Read More]

Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on March 31, 2017

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... [Read More]

Ethereum JS Ecosystem Updates

Posted by Martin Becze on March 20, 2017

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. [Read More]