Ripple bought a bank in pieces. The $4 billion audit
While the market watched the token, the company spent $4 billion assembling what it was never granted: custody, prime brokerage, corporate treasury, and payment rails, acquisition by acquisition. This is the audit of what the money bought, what it earns, and the uncomfortable question the empire...
Solidity Optimizer and ABIEncoderV2 Bug
Solidity Optimizer and ABIEncoderV2 Bug Announcement Through the Ethereum bug bounty program, we received a report about a flaw within the new experimental ABI encoder (referred to as ABIEncoderV2). Upon investigation, it was found that the component suffers from a few different variations of the same type. The first part of this announcement explains this bug in detail. The...
Who pays for free crypto transfers? The five answers
Stable exempts USDT transfers from gas. Plasma ships zero-fee sends. Sui made stablecoin transfers free at the protocol level. Every coverage of every launch asks the same question in passing, someone still pays for blockspace, and then moves on. This guide stops and answers it: five...
Beginning a new ethereum.org | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Hello, world! Welcome to the new ethereum.org. This is the beginning of the ethereum.org relaunch, not the end. As explained in more detail below, the new website is intentionally a work in progress. It’s launching as an experiment, intended to grow and iterate in public as it is improved by the community — just like Ethereum. Three core principles As we’ve progressed...
What Is the STABLE token for? The value-accrual test
StableChain’s product is Tether’s dollar: gas in USDT, transfers in USDT, yield in USDT. Its native token does none of that, and holders own governance and staking rights over a network whose every cash flow is denominated in someone else’s asset. This is crypto’s value-accrual question...
Ethereum Foundation Spring 2019 Update
1. Introduction Ethereum Community, Ethereum’s future is bright. Over the last 12 months the Ethereum community — a global collection of developers, entrepreneurs, researchers, and passionate users — has made tremendous progress. Every week, new applications built on Ethereum launch to mainnet, scalability solutions come online, and ETH 2.0 moves closer to key milestones. Ethereum remains the de-facto platform for...
What is USDT0? Tether’s omnichain dollar explained
The world’s largest stablecoin now travels between blockchains as USDT0, a version its builders insist is not a wrapped token, while its mechanics lock collateral in an Ethereum vault and mint claims elsewhere. Here is how it actually works, who runs it, what the trust stack...
Devcon in Osaka: Applications now open!
Friends, The year is well underway, cherry blossoms have fallen, and Devcon is quickly approaching! As announced on-stage at Ethereal last month, Devcon will be returning to Asia in 2019. We hope that you'll join us this October 8th-11th as we come together in Osaka, Japan! Without further delay, we're excited to reveal new details for this year's gathering. TICKETS Sales for the...
How to bridge to StableChain: The complete route map
Getting dollars onto the chain where USDT is the gas takes one bridge transaction, and choosing the route well takes five minutes of understanding. This guide walks the fastest path through Relay, the canonical paths through the USDT0 mesh, what arrives in your wallet, what it...
EF-Supported Teams: Development Report | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Friends, Over the last year, developers and researchers supported by Ethereum Foundation have kept their heads down and continued to produce at a staggering pace. Their focus has remained on their work, and together we're all building a more complete Ethereum. Today, our regular all-team update series is relaunching in a changed and ever growing ecosystem. Ethereum features larger dApp,...
