March 15, 2025
Ethereum

Security alert [11/24/2016]: Consensus bug in geth v1.4.19 and v1.5.2

Security Alert Affected configurations: Geth Severity: High Summary:  An issue has been identified with Geth’s journaling mechanism. This caused a network fork at

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Ethereum Research Update | Ethereum Foundation Blog

This week marks the completion of our fourth hard fork, Spurious Dragon, and the subsequent state clearing process, the final steps in the two-hard-fork solution

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zkSNARKs in a nutshell | Ethereum Foundation Blog

The possibilities of zkSNARKs are impressive, you can verify the correctness of computations without having to execute them and you will not even

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The History of Casper – Chapter 1

Vitalik suggested last week that I share my basic research and design philosophy in a blog post, I agreed but complained that it

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The History of Casper – Chapter 2

This chapter describes the game theory and economic security modelling we were doing in the Fall of 2014. It recounts how the “bribing

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Swarm alpha public pilot and the basics of Swarm

With the long awaited geth 1.5 (“let there bee light”) release, Swarm made it into the official go-ethereum release as an experimental feature.

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Security alert [12/19/2016]: Ethereum.org Forums Database Compromised

On December 16, we were made aware that someone had recently gained unauthorized access to a database from forum.ethereum.org. We immediately launched a

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December Roundup | Ethereum Foundation Blog

December marks a month of continued progress in the Ethereum ecosystem. Research on proof of stake and sharding continues after the research team’s workshop

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Introduction of the Light Client for DApp developers

The first version of the Light Ethereum Subprotocol (LES/1) and its implementation in Geth are still in an experimental stage, but they are

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An Update on Integrating Zcash on Ethereum (ZoE)

Members of the Ethereum R&D team and the Zcash Company are collaborating on a research project addressing the combination of programmability and privacy

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