January 27, 2026
Ethereum

Allocation Update – Q2 2025

Community & education Appcon Slice Event designed to introduce Ethereum applications and experiences to a non-crypto audience, hosted during Milan Design Week in Italy. Community & education Bhutan Dev Fest GovTech Agency Hackathon in Paro, Bhutan uniting local and global innovators to develop solutions leveraging decentralized technology, including Bhutan’s self-sovereign National Digital Identity (NDI) that

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Checkpoint #5: July 2025 | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this “Checkpoint” series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-5 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. tl;dr Core developers are focused on getting Fusaka out the door and choosing the headline feature(s) for the

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Celebrating 10 Years of Ethereum

On July 30, 2025, the Ethereum community marked a major milestone: ten years since the Ethereum’s genesis block and mainnet launch. What began as a whitepaper has evolved into a decentralized platform now powering thousands of applications, tools, and communities around the world. The Celebration To commemorate the occasion, over 100 ecosystem-led events took place

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lean Ethereum | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Yesterday Ethereum turned 10. Today, lean Ethereum is unveiled as a vision—and personal mission—for the next 10 years. We stand at the dawn of a new era. Millions of TPS. Quantum adversaries. How does Ethereum marry extreme performance with uncompromising security and decentralization? TLDR: next-generation cryptography is central to winning both offense and defense. Disclaimer:

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Protocol Update 001 – Scale L1

In June, we introduced Protocol, reorganizing the Ethereum Foundation’s research & development teams to better align on our current strategic goals, Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX without compromising on our commitment to Ethereum’s security and hardness. Over the coming weeks, we’ll publish updates on each work stream, covering their ongoing progress, new initiatives,

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Protocol Update 002 – Scale Blobs

Following up from Protocol Update 001, we’d like to introduce our approach to blob scaling. The L1 serves as a robust foundation for L2 systems to scale Ethereum, and a necessary component of secure L2 solutions is data availability provided by the L1. Data availability ensures that updates L2s make back to the L1 can

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The Ecosystem Support Program’s Next Chapter

The EF’s Grants Program launched in 2018 and has evolved over time to become the Ecosystem Support Program (ESP), providing grants and support to builders that help the Ethereum ecosystem thrive. Our mission is to enable work that strengthens Ethereum’s foundations and empowers future builders, in domains such as developer tooling, research, community building, infrastructure,

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Protocol Update 003 — Improve UX

A few months ago, we announced a renewed focus of Protocol on three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale blobs, Improve UX. Following previous updates on Scale L1 and Scale blobs, this note relates to our “Improve UX” track, and its mission: Seamless, secure and permissionless experience across the Ethereum ecosystem, for individuals and institutions. We

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Holešky Testnet Shutdown Announcement | Ethereum Foundation Blog

As previously announced, the Holešky testnet has reached its planned end-of-life date and will be sunset shortly. The vast majority of remaining validator nodes will be shut down 2 weeks after the Fusaka upgrade has finalized on Holešky. After this, Holešky will no longer be supported by client, testing or infrastructure teams. Following the launch

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Fusaka $2,000,000 Audit Contest! | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Today, we are excited to announce the start of the Fusaka audit contest, co-sponsored by Gnosis and Lido, hosted on Sherlock, and running for four weeks from September 15th. The goal is simple: maximize scrutiny of the Fusaka upgrade and surface vulnerabilities before they can impact the network. To raise the stakes, valid findings reported

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