September 13, 2018 R&D
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Solidity Bugfix Release

by Solidity Team
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.
August 17, 2018 ESP
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Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave III

by Ethereum Team
Ethereum Foundation Grants Update 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. Since then, we’ve committed over $11M to 52 projects dedicated to advancing the Ethereum ecosystem. Grants have funded multiple plasma and state channel implementations, diverse client research,...
July 30, 2018 Devcon
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Devcon4 Call for Participation!

by Deva the Devcon Unicorn
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 in silence at a person on a stage – we want to see, meet and talk with each other. In that spirit, we’re designing the programming and environment of Devcon4...
July 27, 2018 Devcon
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Answers to your top 3 Devcon4 questions

by Deva the Devcon Unicorn
Your friendly Devcon4 planning team, here to answer your top 3 questions: 1. 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 should hear back by then, so that if they didn’t qualify they can participate in the wave. 2. Where in Prague will Devcon4 take place? We’ll be in the Prague Congress...
July 19, 2018 Devcon
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Devcon4 Application Deadlines Coming Soon

by Deva the Devcon Unicorn
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 application or do so before the deadline, it will be processed and responded to by the Devcon team in short order! As we continue to work toward providing everyone an opportunity to...
July 17, 2018 Devcon
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An Update on Devcon4 Ticket Allocations & Sales

by Deva the Devcon Unicorn
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 communication are things the Devcon team strives for so we wanted to share some of our thinking behind Devcon4 ticket allocations and sales in hopes of answering the questions and addressing...
July 3, 2018 Devcon
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Devcon4 Ticket Sales

by Deva the Devcon Unicorn
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 yourself or a small organization? Apply for a builder discount here: https://devcon4.ethereum.org/apply/builder-discount Are you a student excited to learn about blockchain & Ethereum? Share your proof of enrollment to receive a student discount...
June 21, 2018 R&D
research & development

Announcing Swarm Proof-of-Concept Release 3

by Viktor Trón
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 Foundation is running a 50-node strong cluster of Swarm nodes together with a public web gateway on https://swarm-gateways.net. We welcome everyone to try it out or commit to operate stable nodes....
May 11, 2018 Devcon
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Devcon4 Announcement

by Hudson Jameson
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 year. The first iteration of this conference took place in 2014 as a classroom-sized gathering in Berlin called Devcon0. There, the first visions of what Ethereum would come to be were presented...