Author: Sophia Brown
The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative is proud to announce a grant allocation to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) to support the continued development of WEBCAT. WEBCAT is an open source tool that lets browsers verify that code served by an enrolled website matches what its developers published. The grant will also help bring that protection to Ethereum wallets and apps. Closing the front-end verification gap The grant targets a gap in how web applications are secured today. HTTPS authenticates the site you connect to and encrypts the connection, but it does not prove that the code…
We are pleased to share that pcaversaccio (pc) has joined the Ethereum Foundation Board. pc is a long time contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem, a co-founder and lead of SEAL 911, and has been a member of the EF’s Silviculture Society, which provides informal counsel to EF aimed at sustaining the core values of censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security. pcaversaccio authored The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto, a 2024 adaptation of Eric Hughes’ A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto applied to Ethereum, Ethereum Privacy: The Road to Self-Sovereignty (2025) and has helped advance security practices across the ecosystem through technical contributions and community…
Ethereum gained 24% in the past month, beating Bitcoin’s 8% rise. BitMine increased its holdings with a purchase of 9,946 ETH. Spot Ethereum ETF inflows continue to support ETH demand. Ethereum has extended its recent rally, outperforming Bitcoin over the past month as institutional demand continues to strengthen. The latest boost came after BitMine Immersion Technologies announced another large Ethereum purchase, adding more ETH to its treasury and bringing its total holdings to 5,787,414 ETH. Ethereum gains strength against Bitcoin Ethereum has continued to outperform Bitcoin over the past month, highlighting renewed investor interest in the second-largest cryptocurrency. The ETH/BTC…
Ethereum (ETH) has gained 8.8% in a week as momentum strengthened. BlackRock’s ETHA helped drive fresh spot ETF inflows. $2,000 remains Ethereum’s next major resistance level. Ethereum has extended its latest recovery, climbing above the $1,900 level and putting the $2,000 mark back into focus. The recovery comes after several weeks of improving price action, renewed institutional interest, and technical signals that suggest bulls have regained control in the short term. At press time, ETH was trading at $1,942.56, up 4.2% over the last 24 hours. The cryptocurrency is up 8.8% over the past seven days, 9.7% over the last…
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 set of specific rules? When a corporation owns property, what that really means is that there is a legal contract stating that the property can only be used for certain purposes under the control of those people who are currently its board of directors – a designation itself modifiable by…
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 a Bitcoin balance, and send and receive transactions. These two capacities: the capacity to think, and the capacity to maintain capital, are in theory all that an economic agent needs to survive in the marketplace, provided that its thoughts and capital allow it to create sellable value fast enough to…
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 such corporations be useful for? Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik once suggested that one application migh be a sort of decentralized Dropbox, where users can upload their files to a resilient peer-to-peer network that would be incentivized to keep those files reliably backed up. But aside from this particular example, what…
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 is provided to switch. Slasher may also benefit other cryptocurrencies that wish to exist independently of Ethereum. Special thanks to tacotime for some inspiration, and for Jack Walker for improvement suggestions. Proof of stake mining has for a long time been a large area of interest to the cryptocurrency community.…
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 than just money. In the months leading up to the development of Ethereum, I had the privilege to work closely with several projects attempting to implement colored coins, smart property, and various types of decentralized exchange. At the time, I was excited by the sheer potential that these technologies could…
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 technical questions as well as a philosophical discussion about the purpose of Ethereum; however, the overwhelming amount of interest and enthusiasm for the project was much larger than we had anticipated. Vitalik’s presentation was met with both a standing ovation and a question queue that took hours to address. Because we…