Ethereum Foundation Blog

Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

TL;DR: Ethereum will use at least ~99.95% less energy post merge. Ethereum will be completing the transition to Proof-of-Stake in the upcoming months, which...

Mainnet Merge Announcement

- Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake! The transition, known as The Merge, must first be activated on the Beacon Chain with the Bellatrix upgrade. After this,...

Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability

<span style="font-weight: 400;">An attack has been found and exploited in <a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413">the...

Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement

Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a planned hard fork at <strong>block number 4.37mil (4,370,000)</strong>, which will likely occur between 12:00 UTC and...

On Mining

<i><em>Decentralization, n.</em> The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK, and maybe not, have not yet...

Final Steps

An update as promised: all systems are now ‘Go’ on the technical side (pun intended) and we intend to release Frontier this week. Thank you to everyone who...

Thinking About Smart Contract Security

Over the last day with the community's help we have crowdsourced a list of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the...

Ethereum Homestead release

<strong>Update: We've released <a href="https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.3.5">version 1.3.5</a> including networking hotfix for...

Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity

<p>Proof of stake continues to be one of the most controversial discussions in the cryptocurrency space. Although the idea has many undeniable benefits,...