Author: Sophia Brown

Community & educationDeFi Security SummitSummit in Paris, France covering all angles of DeFi security including auditing, tooling, and bug mitigation, by exploring some of the biggest DeFi exploits and diving into practical ways to increase security coverage for code.Community & educationDWeb Camp & Global Fellows ProgramInternet ArchiveFive-day event with the purpose of tackling real-world challenges facing web3 and co-creating decentralized technologies of the future.Community & educationETHBarcelonaConference and hackathon in Barcelona, Spain covering topics such as public goods, privacy, and scalability.Community & educationETH BelgradeConference and hackathon in Belgrade, Serbia covering topics such as zero knowledge (ZK), infrastructure, and scaling.Community & educationEthereum…

tl;dr EELS is an execution layer reference implementation in Python.It’s up to date with mainnet.It fills tests, and passes existing ones.There’s an example of an EIP implemented in EELS below. Introduction After more than a year in development, we’re pleased to publicly introduce the Ethereum Execution Layer Specification (affectionately known as EELS.) EELS is a Python reference implementation of the core components of an Ethereum execution client focused on readability and clarity. Intended as a spiritual successor to the Yellow Paper that’s more programmer friendly and up-to-date with post-merge forks, EELS can fill and execute state tests, follow mainnet1, and…

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 gist of it, Geth v1.13.0 ships a new database model for storing the Ethereum state, which is both faster than the previous scheme, and also has proper pruning implemented. No more junk accumulating on disk and no more guerilla (offline) pruning! ¹Excluding ~589GB ancient data, the same across all configurations.²Hash scheme…

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 if you need more information on what Devconnect is all about, head over to devconnect.org to learn more. Attend Devconnect to shape the future of Ethereum 🌍 Devconnect is a gathering for those eager to advance Ethereum. By participating you can: Make progress happen: The events listed on the Devconnect schedule are…

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, we have been running the ethereum.org Translation program since July 2019, intending to make the content on the site available to everyone, including over 6 billion non-English speakers. By providing educational content about Ethereum and essential onboarding pages in as many languages as possible, we are making learning about Ethereum and…

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 Istanbul, we have consulted with our event organizer partners, local community members, and monitored government warnings that affect our community or the region. We recently took an additional step of working with external risk advisory services to consider where and how we may need to make changes to reflect conditions regionally.…

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 that all clients could use. The Protocol Security Research team at the Ethereum Foundation had the opportunity to review and improve this library. This blog post will discuss some things we do to make C projects more secure. Fuzz Fuzzing is a dynamic code testing technique that involves providing random…

Autonomous Arcade & Mass AdoptionIOSG VenturesNovember 14, 2023Join us as we shift our focus toward exploring the intersection of blockchain with gaming and other applications. Here, we engage, connect, and ignite to shape the future of this transformative technology within the gaming landscape and talk about applications, Data, ZK, and other topics within this one-day event including talks and panels joined by the industry leaders. Don’t miss it out to be part of the Old Friends Reunion that shapes the future of this dynamic world! Together, we further!Autonomous Worlds Assembly0xPARCNovember 15, 2023 → November 16, 2023We will run talks, game…

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 impotent – and sometimes, the very things that make us humans can play a role in our collective dehumanization. In Syria, my political activism became the grounds for denying me the most basic forms of identification. I was detained and tortured as a means of political repression. My academic pursuits…

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 teams in the Ethereum community. Events took place at various locations across the city and beyond, celebrating the breadth and depth of the Ethereum ecosystem. Thank you to everyone who was part of Devconnect! We are so happy that everyone that was able to join us for an intense week,…