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Devconnect Buenos Aires wrapped up as the largest Ethereum Foundation event yet, bringing together a global mix of developers, founders, creators, and curious newcomers. Key numbers from the week 14,000+ attendeesfrom 130+ countries45% from Argentina53% first-time EF event attendees1,000+ visas issued in collaboration with Argentina’s Dirección Nacional de Migraciones80+ application exhibitors40+ deep-dive events15 Community Hubs200 volunteers500+ community-run side events across the city 📸 Find the Devconnect photo gallery here.📋 Share your feedback with us and fill out the survey. 🎡 A World’s Fair for Ethereum with La Rural as the Schellingpoint For the first time, Devconnect introduced a World’s Fair-style…

Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Stateless Consensus team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ethereum. Special thanks to Ladislaus von Daniels and Marius van der Wijden for reviewing this article. Ethereum has grown from a small experimental network into a critical piece of global infrastructure. Every day it settles billions of dollars in value, coordinates thousands of applications, and anchors an entire ecosystem of L2s. All of this ultimately relies on a single underlying component:…

Thanks to Arantxa Zapico, Benedikt Wagner, and Dmitry Khovratovich from the EF cryptography team for their contributions, and to Ladislaus, Kev, Alex, and Marius for the careful review and feedback. The zkEVM ecosystem has been sprinting for a year. And it worked! We crossed the finish line for real-time proving! Now comes the next phase: building something mainnet-grade. From speed to security In July, we published a north-star definition for realtime proving. Nine months later, the ecosystem crushed it: proving latency dropped from 16 minutes to 16 seconds, costs collapsed 45×, and zkVMs now prove 99% of all Ethereum blocks…

Fusaka shipped PeerDAS in addition to a myriad of minor features and Glamsterdam’s major features will include Block-level Access Lists and enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation. Now we begin outlining the subsequent upgrade: Hegotá. Timeline Jan 8th – Feb 4th: Headliner proposals (EthMag) Feb 5th – Feb 26th*: Headliner discussion & finalization (ACD calls) 30-day window to follow: Non-headliner EIP proposals (Hegota Meta EIP) *subject to change Headliner proposals Hegota’s major features (”headliners”) will be chosen first. These features, presented as EIPs, can be submitted on the Ethereum Magicians forum beginning January 8th, using a template that will be posted in the…

Devcon, the Ethereum community’s annual global gathering for builders, will take place from 3-6 November 2026 at the JIO World Center in Mumbai, India. This Devcon 8 update is not a full vision, but will help organizers and the wider ecosystem plan. More details on programming, tracks, and participation will follow in the coming months. Why India, why Mumbai India was selected as the next host location based on the scale and rapid growth of its developer ecosystem, rising local adoption, and strong grassroots Ethereum communities. India has 17M+ developers on GitHubIt has been the largest source of new crypto…

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During Devconnect Buenos Aires, the Ethereum Foundation and Secureum TrustX brought together Ethereum security practitioners for Trillion Dollar Security Day, a focused event exploring what it would take to securely support a trillion-dollar Ethereum economy. The event brought together around eighty participants from across the Ethereum Security Ecosystem—spanning Infrastructure, Interoperability, Layer 1 & 2, Onchain, Offchain, Privacy, and Wallets—to assess the current security landscape, surface shared challenges, and identify concrete next steps across the stack. The discussions and outputs from this event contribute to the Ethereum Foundation’s ongoing One Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative. Why a Trillion Dollar Security Day?…

The EF’s Academic Secretariat team is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural PhD Fellowship Program, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related academic research, by supporting Ethereum-related academic work led by PhD students. Round Scope The scope of this round includes work that is broadly relevant to students interested in pursuing research that are at the intersection of Institutional Design, Corporate Governance, Political Economic, Decentralized AI, and Ethereum. We are seeking proposals that align with the RFP topics listed on our webpage. We encourage researchers to use these RFPs as a starting point,…

Today, we are announcing a transition in the executive leadership team at the Ethereum Foundation. After extensive contributions to the Foundation’s mission and operations, Tomasz Stańczak has decided to step down from his role as Co-Executive Director. The Foundation’s Board has appointed Bastian Aue to serve as interim Co-Executive Director, effective immediately. Tomasz joined the management team during a critical period of growth and maturation for the Foundation. His strategic guidance helped expand our ability to reach out to broad groups of people and teams, and for the EF to understand businesses in the ecosystem more deeply. He also brought…