From corporation to crowd: How organizations evolved through time and technology
The corporation solved the coordination problems of the industrial age. The DUNA — a new legal entity — does the same for decentralized networks.
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Ethereum Foundation Board Update
We are pleased to share that pcaversaccio (pc) has joined the Ethereum Foundation Board. pc is a long time contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem,...
It's time to pass the CLARITY Act
Every generation gets a chance to upgrade its infrastructure. In the 1990s, it was the internet. Policymakers worried that it would disrupt...
3 charts on the tokenized stocks boom
Tokenized equities — or tokenized stocks, as they’re more commonly known — show the inroads crypto is making into Wall Street. These are...
The time for Clarity is here: The next-generation Telecoms Act
Congress has a chance to pass the most important technology law since the Telecoms Act
TradFi doesn’t want DeFi. It wants blockchains.
How institutions are rebuilding finance from DeFi’s primitives. And why open networks still matter.
Devcon 8 Tickets Are Live: Find Your Path to Mumbai
Devcon 8 tickets are live! 🇮🇳 This November, the Ethereum community will gather in Mumbai for a more focused and intimate Devcon. Devcon gathers...
Why markets fail — and how to fix them (ft. Nobel economist Alvin Roth)
Nobel Prize–winning economist Alvin Roth on kidney exchanges, school matching, and what these systems teach us about coordination in crypto.
The triage is the product: running AI agents against Ethereum's protocol code
Notes from the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team on running coordinated AI agents against real protocol code, including how we organize...
Ethereum for Governments and Institutions: Why neutral infrastructure matters now
Current global shifts clearly signal a critical need for shared, neutral digital public infrastructure outside the control of any single...
Some books we’re reading this summer 2026
Our summer 2026 reading list, featuring team recommendations across technology, history, science fiction, economics, energy, biology, memoir,...
If you yell about everything, you're heard about nothing
Startup comms runs at a permanent fever pitch. Every launch is momentous. Every setback is the end of the industry. Every rival is a fraud, every...
Leslie Lamport on the Science of Distributed Systems
Before blockchains could reach consensus, Leslie Lamport had to define what agreement even meant when computers fail, lie, or disappear.
Inside Asia's Institutional Blockchain Race: The South Korea Edition
South Korea's push for institutional infrastructure is driven by two trends: stablecoins and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization.
Charts: Prediction markets just posted their third straight record-setting week
Weekly prediction market volume hit $14.4 billion for the first time last week — up from roughly $5-6B at the start of the year. The previous...
Investing in Ornn: A Market for Compute
a16z crypto leads Ornn's $33 million seed funding round.
The EF’s new structure
Today, the EF is changing shape, concluding a months-long process of reorganization as part of the implementation of the Mandate and the Treasury...
Clear Signing: Making Transaction Approvals Safer on Ethereum
An Ethereum Working Group consisting of wallet developers, security firms and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative today...
Protocol Cluster Updates: May 2026
A semi-regular gathering of Ethereum core devs from various client teams, or interop, recently took place in Svalbard, Norway. Over the week-long...
Lord Kulveer Ranger on digital assets, digital pound, and stablecoins
Lord Ranger is a Member of the UK House of Lords and serves as Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Digital Markets and Digital Money.
Drift to issue ‘recovery tokens’ in wake of $295m hack
Developers behind Solana-based derivatives exchange Drift proposed on Tuesday a recovery plan that would funnel protocol revenue to users who lost...