Author: Olivia Martinez
Přátelé. Just a quick update today! Applications for sponsorships, scholarships, student discounts and builder discounts will be up until 11:59PM PST on July 24th. After that, there will no longer be a way to submit an application for these tracks. Please note that if you’ve already submitted an application or do so before the deadline, it will be processed and responded to by the Devcon team in short order! As we continue to work toward providing everyone an opportunity to attend Devcon, we’re capping applications in preparation for future waves and to give the general public the chance to join…
Your friendly Devcon4 planning team, here to answer your top 3 questions: 1. When’s the next wave of ticket sales? Mark your calendars! We plan to release the next wave of General Admissions tickets on Tuesday, August 7 at 8AM PST. Anyone who applied for a discount or scholarship should hear back by then, so that if they didn’t qualify they can participate in the wave. 2. Where in Prague will Devcon4 take place? We’ll be in the Prague Congress Centre! Ticket holders stay tuned for information about discounted rates at nearby hotels. 3. How can I apply to speak…
When we asked many of you, “What are you most excited for at Devcon4?” most people replied: the people! This is the one time a year we all get together in one place. We don’t want to spend all of our time at Devcon sitting in a dark room, staring in silence at a person on a stage – we want to see, meet and talk with each other. In that spirit, we’re designing the programming and environment of Devcon4 to provide the time and space for all of us to make new connections – between people and ideas. This…
We’ve been hard at work getting to know so many amazing people and projects, and are extremely excited to announce the recipients of the Wave III of the Ethereum Foundation Grants Program! We kicked off 2018 with a blog post to galvanize scalability research for first and second-layer solutions. Since then, we’ve committed over $11M to 52 projects dedicated to advancing the Ethereum ecosystem. Grants have funded multiple plasma and state channel implementations, diverse client research, enhanced developer frameworks, security audits, and so much more (find them all in the previous posts: Wave I & Wave II)! A Look into…
The latest version 0.4.25 release of Solidity fixes two important bugs. Another important bug has already been fixed in version 0.4.22 but it was only discovered recently that the bug existed. Note that the Ethereum Foundation runs a bounty program for the code generator part of Solidity. Cleanup of Exponent in Exponentiation Likelihood of occurrence: very lowExploitability: highDiscoverability by tests: lowFixed in version: 0.4.25 Summary: Using short types in the exponent of an exponentiation operation can lead to invalid results. The Solidity language allows integer types that are shorter than 256 bits, even though the Ethereum Virtual Machine only knows…
Greetings from the Ethereum Foundation Grants Team! As we go full steam ahead to Devcon 4, we’re back to announce Wave 4 of the Grants Program! Thank you to all the fantastic community members that have applied with creative ideas on how to bolster our ecosystem. We would not exist without the time and energy that you put into Ethereum. While the program continues to grow, we will increasingly continue to involve more community members in the decision making process. The Grants Program today is vastly improved from just earlier this year, thanks to all the helpful feedback from the…
Přátelé, Today, we’re excited to unveil our Devcon4 Sponsors. Each of this year’s six tiers of sponsorship is supporting the Foundation’s work in significant and impactful ways. We’re thrilled to involve many major and growing teams in Devcon, and to make the most of this opportunity to support the Foundation’s core mission. To this end, we’re proud to first announce this year’s premier Devcon supporters: SERENITY: AdEx, BlockAsset Ventures, Blockchains LLC, Blockfolio, Colony, ConsenSys, OmiseGO, Sparkpool, and Status METROPOLIS: Celer Network, Kyber Network, imToken, Santiment, and ShapeShift HOMESTEAD: Ernst & Young, FunFair, Golem, Microsoft, MyEtherWallet, SingularDTV, and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs…
Our goal on the grants team is to be faithful stewards of Ethereum community resources. As part of the Ethereum Foundation’s ongoing effort to diffuse power throughout our community, we give grants that we believe will return the highest impact on the Ethereum ecosystem over the long-term. What is the scope of EF grants? Open source! Funding is only for future work Avoid playing favorites. We try not to advantage one team over others Avoid grants at the application layer, though we do believe that projects and teams working at the application layer should apply when they are building open…
The Funding Coordination team is excited to announce a joint initiative with Keyring Network that introduces a new approach to impact funding in the Ethereum ecosystem. Directly support privacy-focused developers Keyring’s zkVerified permissioned vaults on mainnet provide compliant and privacy-preserving access to DeFi lending markets. For the first two months, all protocol fees from Keyring’s zkVerified vaults will go to the legal defense funds of Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, the Tornado Cash developers currently on trial for publishing open-source code. This model ensures that the first users of a vault directly support the legal protection of privacy-focused developers. By…
The Ethereum Foundation has opened applications for the 2026 Internship Program: a paid, full-time opportunity to work directly with teams advancing the Ethereum protocol and ecosystem. Interns will join EF teams for 12 weeks over the summer, contributing to active R&D and ecosystem-oriented projects across a wide range of focus areas. The internship is open to candidates worldwide and can be completed remotely or from EF’s offices. A summer meetup will bring the cohort together to connect in person. The Goal Ethereum continues to evolve; each upgrade, research initiative, and experiment depends on people willing to dive into complex problems…