November 6, 2025
Ethereum

Onward from the Hard Fork

The foundation has committed to support the community consensus on the admittedly difficult hard fork decision. Seeing the results of various metrics, including

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Ethereum

On Inflation, Transaction Fees and Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy

The primary expense that must be paid by a blockchain is that of security. The blockchain must pay miners or validators to economically

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Ethereum

Dev Update: Formal Methods | Ethereum Foundation Blog

I’m joining Ethereum as a formal verification engineer. My reasoning: formal verification makes sense as a profession only in a rare situation where

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Ethereum

Security alert – All geth nodes crash due to an out of memory bug

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The Ethereum network is currently undergoing a DoS attack

URGENT ALL MINERS: The network is under attack. The attack is a computational DDoS, ie. miners and nodes need to spend a very

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Ethereum

Transaction spam attack: Next Steps

Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here), thereby creating blocks

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Ethereum

Announcement of imminent hard fork for EIP150 gas cost changes

During the last couple of weeks, the Ethereum network has been the target of a sustained attack. The attacker(s) have been very crafty

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Ethereum

FAQ: Upcoming Ethereum Hard Fork

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2463000, which will likely occur between 12:00 and 13:00 UTC on

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Ethereum

Security Alert – Mist can be vulnerable when navigating to malicious DApps

Mist leaks some low level APIs, which Dapps could use to gain access to the computer’s file system and read/delete files. This would

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Ethereum

Uncle Rate and Transaction Fee Analysis

One of the important indicators of how much load the Ethereum blockchain can safely handle is how the uncle rate responds to the

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