The organization behind the second-largest blockchain network revealed it had employed a coordinated army of AI agents to identify vulnerabilities in Ethereum’s critical infrastructure. The team said one major bug was successfully discovered and patched before it could become a larger problem. But that could be just the start of this major story. AI and […]
Ethereum (ETH) is trading at nearly 65% below its all-time high, with attention around the asset at an almost yearly low, even as its largest network upgrade since The Merge is due within weeks. But an analyst tracking the setup says the gap between weak social interest and steady on-chain usage is the kind of […]
“The Summer of Ethereum Love is gaining steam,” said co-founder Joseph Lubin on Wednesday. The Consensys exec said this was due to credibly neutral steward organizations like Ethlabs launching to accelerate ETH’s capabilities through parallel efforts beyond the embattled Ethereum Foundation. He highlighted Ethereum’s 11-year 100% uptime, censorship resistance, permissionlessness, and global neutrality as core […]
Charles Hoskinson has accused Ethereum of adopting ideas pioneered by Cardano without acknowledgment. The Cardano co-founder made the claim following a proposal by Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter to bring native UTXOs to the network as a way of cutting long-term state storage for payment transactions. Ethereum Is Revisiting Cardano’s Work According to Hoskinson, Wahrstätter’s research […]
Ethereum Institutional was announced on Wednesday as a new independent non-profit to serve as a neutral front door for institutions navigating Ethereum, its layer-2s, tokenization, stablecoins, and on-chain markets. The new organization has been founded by the former Ethereum Foundation Enterprise team, David Walsh, Matthew Dawson, and Marius Smith, with funding coming from Bitmine, Sharplink, […]
The attacker behind the exploit of Ethereum MEV bot Jaredfromsubway has moved millions of dollars through Tornado Cash, despite a public offer to return half the stolen funds in exchange for a white-hat bounty. The transfer suggests that the attacker may have little interest in negotiating, even with the bot’s operator offering rewards and claiming […]
A new Ethereum funding proposal would allow validators to redirect up to 10% of staking rewards toward ecosystem development if a majority of validators agree to the change. The idea has reopened debate over how Ethereum should pay for public goods as concerns grow around shrinking funding sources for core development. Proposal Looking to Solve […]
Ethereum’s layer-1 network set all-time highs across every usage metric in Q1 2026, with monthly active users climbing 53.5% quarter-over-quarter to 13.2 million and transaction count reaching 200.4 million, even as ETH’s market cap dropped 30% and fees on the base layer fell nearly 50%. But according to Token Terminal’s Q1 2026 Ethereum Report, the […]
Hsiao-Wei Wang has stepped down as the Ethereum Foundation’s co-executive director and board member following the end of her sabbatical. Vitalik Buterin praised her role in shaping Ethereum’s research culture and building the ecosystem’s community. Ethereum Foundation Hit By Another High-Profile Exit Wang took to social media to announce her departure from the non-profit after […]
Ethereum may be heading toward a funding crisis that could begin to emerge within the next three to nine months, according to former Ethereum Foundation contributor Trent Van Epps. In a recent article on X, Van Epps, who recently ended his five-year stint at EF, said the risk is not simply the result of a […]