Tagged: Ethereum Foundation

June 23, 2026 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A new nonprofit research and development organization called Ethlabs has launched to strengthen Ethereum’s technical foundation and prepare the network for broader institutional use. Founded by former researchers from the Ethereum Foundation, the group aims to accelerate progress on scaling, protocol improvements, and real-world adoption… Read More

June 20, 2026 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A former Ethereum Foundation contributor has raised alarms about a possible shortfall in support for the network’s foundational development efforts, warning that it could materialize within the next three to nine months. Trent Van Epps, who spent five years at the Foundation until April 2026… Read More

June 5, 2026 @ 5:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH), which decisively remains the leading smart contract platform for building and deploying decentralized applications or dApps, continues to solidify its position as the go-to platform for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, outpacing competitors in market share and driving significant growth in the sector. According… Read More

April 25, 2026 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation has reportedly finalized an over-the-counter transaction involving 10,000 ETH tokens that were sold directly to BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR). The publicly traded firm, chaired by crypto analyst Tom Lee, acquired the assets at an average price of $2,387 per token, resulting in… Read More

April 4, 2026 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation has again taken a seemingly significant step forward in its commitment to network security by expanding its holdings of staked Ether. This latest increase brings the organization to approximately two-thirds of its predetermined 70,000 ETH staking objective, underscoring a deliberate strategy to… Read More

March 30, 2026 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a sign of institutional support for its own blockchain, the Ethereum Foundation has recently locked away approximately $46 million worth of Ether, achieving its largest single-day staking operation to date. This move underscores the organization’s deepening commitment to the network’s long-term security and growth… Read More

January 25, 2026 @ 8:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation has announced the creation of a specialized Post-Quantum (PQ) security team, signaling a heightened focus on protecting the network from emerging quantum computing risks. This initiative, revealed by EF researcher Justin Drake, represents a pivot from exploratory studies to hands-on engineering efforts…. Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 11:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation revealed that it will be exchanging as many as 1,000 ETH tokens for stablecoins in order to support ongoing ecosystem growth. Leveraging CoWSwap’s TWAP solution, the Ethereum Foundation stated converting the ETH into stablecoins should help it enable work to finance research… Read More

September 7, 2025 @ 8:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation, an organization sharply focused on the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem, has announced plans to sell 10,000 ETH to finance ongoing and future research and development initiatives. This strategic move aims to strengthen the foundation’s financial reserves while supporting critical projects that drive Ethereum’s… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Ethereum’s (ETH) very first mainnet shadow fork has gone live (as of April 11, 2022). This, as the developers of the second-largest digital currency by market capitalization continue the gradual transition to a proof-of-stake or PoS (blockchain) consensus model. The shadow fork is a… Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university in Philadelphia, has released a report titled, “DeFi Beyond the Hype – The Emerging World of Decentralized Finance.” The extensive report, which has been… Read More

May 18, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

James Wang, an experienced crypto analyst who says that Ethereum (ETH) could be the “last investment of your life,” points out that the world’s largest smart contract platform isn’t merely a cryptocurrency. Wang explains that Ethereum is a complete software platform with a rapidly increasing… Read More

July 21, 2020 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation, an organization that supports the ongoing development of Ethereum (ETH), the largest blockchain-based network for building decentralized applications (dApps), has introduced several public “attack networks” for Ethereum 2.0, which is based on existing stable clients of the smart contract platform. These attack… Read More