Bhutan says it's migrating its national ID system for its nearly 800K residents from Polygon to Ethereum; the Ethereum Foundation says it will finish by Q1 2026
The Kingdom of Bhutan has tapped Ethereum to store the national identities of its roughly 800,000 citizens, leveraging the network's immutability and decentralization.
The Ethereum Foundation announces the “Privacy cluster”, a team of 47 blockchain industry experts developing protocol-level privacy features for the network
The team of 47 professionals from the blockchain industry will help research and develop privacy features for the Ethereum layer-1 network.
The Ethereum Foundation pauses its grants program, which awarded $3M+ to 100+ projects since 2018, to rethink its spending strategy and reduce its burn rate
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SharpLink Gaming, a Nasdaq-listed online gambling marketing company, becomes the largest corporate ether holder with 280,706, surpassing the Ethereum Foundation
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The Ethereum Foundation selects two new co-executive directors, and Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi becomes president, following calls for new leadership
Details CryptoNinjas : Ethereum Foundation Restructures Leadership in Bold Move to Revive Ecosystem Growth Godfrey Benjamin / CoinGape : Ethereum Foundation Unveils New Executive Directors Vince Quill...
Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation back Etherealize, a NYC-based startup to market Ethereum to financial firms, as ether lags behind bitcoin's gains
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Vitalik Buterin outlines “large changes” to Ethereum Foundation leadership structure, after fellow Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin called for new EF leadership
- Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, in a post on X, said “large changes” to the leadership structure of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) are underway. X: @vitalikbuterin , @vitalikbuterin , and @owocki...
The Ethereum Foundation says it will begin the Merge on September 6, split into two parts, the second running between September 10-20
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The Ethereum Foundation says it will begin the Merge on September 6, split into two parts, the second running between September 10-20
- The Bellatrix upgrade for The Merge is set for September 6, and Paris will follow several days later. — Node operators must download clients updates before the Bellatrix upgrade is activated.
The Ethereum Foundation renames Eth1 as “execution layer” and Eth2 as “consensus layer” to “save all future users from navigating this confusing mental model”
Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol …