Ethereum Foundation
Non-profit stewarding the Ethereum ecosystem. Smart-contract platform launched July 2015 (Frontier). Funds research, client teams, and grants.
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BitMine Immersion Technologies continued adding to its Ethereum stockpile, even as its Bitcoin counterpart Strategy stood pat.
Bitmine added 27,084 ETH last week, bringing total holdings to 5.70M coins worth $8.9B as the company hits 94% of its 5% ETH supply target.
The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third party,” but today’s versions remain far too slow for real use.
Loopring plans to return all remaining user funds through a smart contract upgrade, without requiring users to cover transaction costs.
BitMine and Joe Lubin back a new non profit called Ethlabs that aims to spur adoption. Binance shutters services in Europe after failing to secure a license.
A former Ethereum Foundation member says the network must quickly build new funding institutions as the Foundation steps back.
Ether’s technical setup points to a potential drop to $1,375, a move that could lift one whale’s unrealized profit to $2.39 million.
Four Ethereum OG wallets that held 37,602 ETH since 2018 finally sold after watching $150M in unrealized profit evaporate at peak prices.
The second-largest corporate ether holder received 5,000 ETH worth about $7.85 million on Thursday, its first inflow since October, even as it sits on a paper loss of roughly $1.8 billion.
The buy came days after a group of former Ethereum Foundation researchers launched Ethlabs, a nonprofit Sharplink helped fund.
The failure of Botanix suggests that Bitcoiners still prefer Ethereum DeFi to Bitcoin L2s. How can Bitcoin L2s change to win hodlers over?
The failure of Botanix suggests that Bitcoiners still prefer Ethereum DeFi to Bitcoin L2s. How can Bitcoin L2s change to win hodlers over?
Ethereum layer-2 network Base was down for more than two hours as it ran into an issue with block production ahead of a planned upgrade.
The incident temporarily halted transaction processing on one of Ethereum's largest layer-2 networks.
Bitcoin touched its lowest price in 21 months early Thursday—and prediction market users don't see the crypto carnage ceasing imminently.
Spark deployed approximately $150 million across two Uniswap v4 pools on Ethereum, while its DualPool hook and Shared Liquidity Layer are planned for later phases.
Bitcoin to $500K, Ethereum to $40K, and Aave to $3,500 by the end of 2030? Standard Chartered just laid out some bullish price targets.
Bitcoin's slide to its lowest point in 21 months slammed the price of leading altcoins, while pressuring crypto stocks on Wall Street.
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at Ethereum's eventful week that started off with the launch of EthLabs, plus the layoffs at the Ethereum Foundation, and what this all means for the network.
Ethereum’s latest “funding crisis” has triggered a fierce debate: a contentious plan to tax staking rewards versus a new wave of labs and large ETH holders funding development offchain.
The non-profit is cutting 54 jobs as it reorganizes into focused "clusters," following a succession of leadership departures.
The reduction comes on the same day the EF confirmed a 20% reduction in headcount and follows the resignation of co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei Wang. Her departure brings the total number of senior Ethereum Foundation figures to leave since January to nine, underscoring the scale of the organization's ongoing turmoil.
Ethereum Foundation cut 20% of its workforce, reorganizing into five clusters as part of a long-simmering reorganization.
The reduction follows a period of significant upheaval at the organization’s leadership level.
The Ethereum Foundation fired 54 employees and unveiled a new organizational structure as Vitalik Buterin said the group plans to reduce its budget by roughly 40%.
Sharplink says the new nonprofit, Ethlabs, “exists to ensure the network is ready to absorb” the demand that institutions will place on it with stablecoins, tokenization and AI.
Some of Ethereum's largest holders are coming together to fund a new research and development lab aimed at boosting the network and ETH.
Ethlabs, backed by Joe Lubin and the two largest ETH DATs, Bitmine and SharpLink, will focus on institutional adoption.
Ethlabs was formed with support from SharpLink, Bitmine and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin as the network's development is expanding beyond the Ethereum Foundation.
The well-known trading bot took a hit this weekend after it fell victim to a series of transactions that left its logic exposed.