Final Steps | Ethereum Foundation Blog
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 provided feedback on my previous blog post. What became apparent is that prior to the big day, many of you wanted to know more about what the sequence of events would...
How Financial Services Can Build Trust Using Blockchain
The apprehensions regarding trust continue to dominate most of the concerns associated with adoption of new technologies like blockchain. Blockchain has proved to be a highly disruptive technology, especially in the financial services sector, disrupting business models and unearthing new levels of efficiency. The adoption of blockchain in financial services raises many questions about the possible ways in...
Tether holds 140 tons of Gold worth $23B, CEO reveals
Tether has built the world’s largest non-sovereign gold hoard in a Swiss bunker, buying more than a ton a week to harden USDT and XAUT against fiat risk. Summary ...
A few last minute notes…
Genesis is roughly 4 hours away, here are a few last minute pointers for those preparing: All clients are functional on all platforms and build to completion: http://ethereum-buildboard.meteor.com/ Please note that it will take a little while (10-1000 blocks) before the network stabilises. This is a marathon, not... Source link
Ethereum gears up for ERC-8004 rollout on mainnet this week
A new Ethereum standard expected to reach mainnet this week could reshape how autonomous AI agents identify each other and work together without relying on centralized platforms. Summary ...
Ethereum Launches | Ethereum Foundation Blog
A few minutes ago, many of you generated and loaded the Ethereum Genesis block, marking the inception of Frontier, the first Live release of the Ethereum project. The Dev team joins me in thanking each and everyone of you for your support during the past year and half. It’s incredible to see the progress that has taken place since...
Bitcoin ZK-rollup Citrea launches mainnet to expand BTC use
Citrea has launched its mainnet, introducing a Bitcoin-native application layer built for on-chain trading, lending, and settlement. Summary Citrea went...
Announcing the New Foundation Board and Executive Director
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 purpose of managing...
Carlson, Schiff debate Bitcoin’s viability as dollar alternative
Media personality Tucker Carlson and economist Peter Schiff engaged in a debate this week over Bitcoin’s potential to replace the U.S. dollar, touching on issues of inflation, government spending and the future of monetary policy. ...
Introducing Casper “the Friendly Ghost”
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 is called Casper...
