Ethereum
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Ethereum is the community-run technology powering the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of decentralized applications.
17999 followers · 17 stories
Ethereum is the community-run technology powering the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of decentralized applications.
EF Devcon announced the 14 Community Hubs selected for Devcon 8, the Ethereum conference's community-organized spaces. The lineup includes a Privacy Hub, a Security Hub, and a dozen other topic-focused hubs run by community teams.
Morpho Midnight is now live on Ethereum, bringing fixed-term, fixed-rate credit to the protocol. Borrowers and lenders can access the market through the Morpho Markets App, where positions are matched for a set term at a locked rate.
A team led by oskarth shipped rotortree, a new open-source building-block library implementing a durable append-only Merkle tree for note commitments. The Ethereum ecosystem account shared the release, positioning it as infrastructure for commitment-based schemes.
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster, after onboarding three new cluster coordinators in May and several months of alignment with contributors across the EF and ecosystem, published its priorities: what Protocol is for, its commitments, and the directions it will focus on.
The Ethereum Foundation opened the Platåberget testnet, an early public testing ground for the Glamsterdam upgrade — the combination of the Gloas and Amsterdam upgrades. The upgrade introduces breaking changes for application developers: any tool that relies on a hardcapped maximum gas limit — such as wallets, indexers, and gas estimators — will break and must be updated. Glamsterdam's repricing means gas pricing will no longer be capped at a fixed hardcoded maximum, so developers should update tooling that assumes such a cap.
The Sepolia testnet Glamsterdam upgrade is now targeting October 6, per the latest Ethereal weekly update, as the changes continue validation across consensus client teams ahead of mainnet.
Ethereum's official account highlighted 35 things the ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced through August, underscoring a stretch of heavy shipping across the network. Topping the list was GnosisDAO's approved vote to transition Gnosis Chain from its own Layer 1 into a ZK-proven Ethereum L2 rollup with synchronous composability, letting apps on Gnosis interoperate with Ethereum.
Devcon, in collaboration with the dev3 platform, will organize a job marketplace-style career fair for the first time. The EF Devcon team announced the initiative as a way for attendees to find their next role in the Ethereum ecosystem during the conference.
The Sign in with Ethereum (SIWE) team announced a new website for ERC-4361, the wallet-standard that underpins Ethereum-based authentication. The standard lets users sign in to web services with their wallet address and signature rather than a traditional password or OAuth account.
SIWE is the specification behind a growing number of web3 login flows, including the "Sign in with Ethereum" option recently added by OpenRouter on top of its Google and GitHub sign-in methods.
Ethereum's official account highlighted Cloaked, a tool that protects users against address poisoning by flagging pasted addresses and verifying they are the correct intended recipient. The feature aims to reduce the risk of funds being sent to lookalike or poisoned addresses.
The retweet, from Cloaked itself, positions the protection as a way to send transactions "with confidence." It reflects growing ecosystem attention on address-poisoning scams.
GnosisDAO has approved Gnosis Chain's transition from a standalone Layer 1 into a ZK-proven Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) rollup. The EEZ team published its August update, now mostly protocol design work, reporting that Rollup 0's composer posted a valid block — an early milestone in the rollup implementation.
The Osaka-Fulu ("Fusaka") upgrade, the network's most recent major protocol upgrade, activated December 3, 2025.
GnosisDAO approved moving Gnosis Chain from a standalone L1 into a ZK-proven Ethereum Economic Zone rollup.
The Prague-Electra ("Pectra") upgrade activated May 7, 2025, increasing the maximum validator balance and improving staking and account abstraction.
The Cancun-Deneb ("Dencun") upgrade activated March 13, 2024, adding proto-danksharding (EIP-4844) to dramatically reduce data costs for Layer 2 rollups.
The Shanghai-Capella ("Shapella") upgrade activated April 12, 2023, enabling withdrawals of staked ETH from the Beacon Chain for the first time.
The Merge joined the execution layer with the Beacon Chain on September 15, 2022, permanently replacing proof-of-work and cutting the network's energy consumption by roughly 99.95%.
The London hard fork, activated August 5, 2021, introduced EIP-1559, changing transaction fee mechanics and beginning to burn a portion of ETH fees.
The Beacon Chain, Ethereum's proof-of-stake consensus layer, went live on December 1, 2020, running in parallel with the proof-of-work mainnet and enabling ETH staking as the foundation for The Merge.
Ethereum executed a hard fork at block 1,920,000 that reversed the DAO theft; the minority chain refused the change and continued as Ethereum Classic, a landmark governance split.
An attacker exploited a reentrancy vulnerability in The DAO's smart contract, draining roughly 3.6 million ETH — about a third of the 11.5 million ETH the organization had raised, worth an estimated $50–70 million at the time.
At block 1,150,000 on March 14, 2016, Ethereum executed Homestead, its first planned (production) hard fork, marking the platform's first production release.
Ethereum produced its genesis block on July 30, 2015, launching the Frontier mainnet. The network has run continuously since that date.
Ethereum's public crowdsale ran from July 22 to September 2, 2014, selling more than 60 million ETH for about $18.3 million in bitcoin to fund development.