After an intensive recruitment period, the Ethereum Foundation has selected an Executive Director and named three members to the Board of Directors. This is a new organizational structure, which will allow us to focus on our next phase of development. The Ethereum Foundation is a not for profit (‘Stiftung’) organization registered in Switzerland, and has
The global adoption trend for Bitcoin-related investment products continues to strengthen, with Six new mutual funds set to debut in Israel. According to a report by the Calcalist on Wednesday, Dec. 25, the Israel Securities Authority has given the green light for six mutual funds that will track the price of Bitcoin (BTC). ISA’s approval
Hi everyone – Vlad here. I’ve been working on the analysis and specification of “proof-of-stake” blockchain architecture since September 2014. While Vitalik and I haven’t agreed on all of the details of the spec, we do have consensus on many properties of the proof-of-stake protocol that will likely be implemented for the Serenity release! It
Crypto hacks in 2024 caused nearly $3 billion in damages, with access control flaws driving 78% of the losses, data shows. 2024 proved to be another challenging year for blockchain security, with nearly $3 billion lost to crypto hacks, according to Hacken’s latest research report. Although the total financial impact was on par with 2023,
After a smooth launch, please find a few updates of note below. These probably will be of interest only to the more advanced users amongst you – if you’re not a miner, there is nothing to action. Epoch switch in 2 hours Let’s start with a quick heads up to miners, the network will be
MicroStrategy Inc., the business intelligence company that is now the biggest corporate holder of Bitcoin, has ranked as the best-performing cryptocurrency stock in 2024, according to The Block. The company’s stock climbed up to 402% on the year, pushing the company’s market cap to $83 billion. This continued the trend of MicroStrategy buying more Bitcoin
Here comes the first Frontier patch, and this is a big one! Before you go further, if your keys date back from Go 1.0 rc or C++ 0.9.36, note that you should regenerate all of your keys NOW. Though some releases of the pre-alpha and alpha clients are secure, this depends on which codebase and
Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, sent 70,182 Ethereum, which is worth $244.9 million, on Christmas Eve to HTX. The transfer, reported by Spot On Chain, consists of 42,905 Ethereum (ETH) unstaked from Lido Finance, a decentralized liquid staking protocol. Sun also transferred 27,277 ETH from Etherfi. The new transaction raised Sun’s total incoming deposits
Over the last year the concept of “private blockchains” has become very popular in the broader blockchain technology discussion. Essentially, instead of having a fully public and uncontrolled network and state machine secured by cryptoeconomics (eg. proof of work, proof of stake), it is also possible to create a system where access permissions are more
Strong whale investment and Eliza plugin boost ai16z’s rise to $1 billion market cap. The AI-driven venture capital DAO token ai16z, which operates on the Solana blockchain, has reached a significant milestone by achieving a $1 billion market valuation. Currently valued at $1.04 billion, the $AI6Z token has recorded a 24-hour gain of 46.93% at
