Ethereum Foundation Blog

Affected configurations: Issue reported for eth (cpp-ethereum). Likelihood: Medium Severity: High Impact: Potentially achieve remote code execution on a machine running eth (cpp-ethereum) Details: A vulnerability found in the MiniUPnP library can potentially affect eth clients running with UPnP enabled. [Read More]

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... [Read More]

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,... [Read More]

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... [Read More]

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.... [Read More]