Gnosis Bridges Adopt Fast Confirmation for Ethereum Deposits
Users and apps need no changes, but the faster processing relies on different security guarantees from Ethereum finality.
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Initiate ‘bunker mode’ to protect crypto from AI, says Justin Drake
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has predicted that AI will “break” elliptic curve cryptography within “months.” The post Initiate...
Morning Minute: AI Could Break Crypto Encryption Before Quantum, Says Ethereum Researcher
Justin Drake is calling for crypto holders to start calmly planning for “Bunker Mode." But reactions so far haven’t been too calm.
‘Don’t rush anything’: Vitalik Buterin warns against hasty wallet migrations amid growing AI threats
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that the crypto industry should take risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously.
Ethereum Researcher Says AI May Break Encryption Before Quantum Does
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged holders to calmly move funds to unused addresses, warning that AI-driven math could break crypto...
Bigger Blocks Are Coming to Ethereum
Sepolia's gas limit hit Glamsterdam's 200M target just 11 hours after the fork. Here's how Ethereum's next upgrade makes room for much bigger blocks.
How native transaction assertions could enforce a transaction's final outcome
The Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security initiative has identified blind signing and transaction uncertainty as a user experience risk,...
Blast L2 Winds Down, Sets Oct. 26th Withdrawal Deadline
Blast is sunsetting its Ethereum L2 after costs outran revenue.
Ethereum Foundation Launches zkAPI for Private AI Payments
The EF and Open Anonymity's new zkAPI lets you prepay for AI and other APIs on Ethereum, then spend with ZK proofs so usage isn't tied back to you.
Introducing zkAPI: private usage credits for any API
tl;dr: zkAPI lets you pay for a metered API without being known. Deposit credits into an Ethereum vault once, then authorize bounded usage with...
Glamsterdam Testnet Announcement
Glamsterdam follows the Fusaka upgrade, advancing Ethereum's L1 scaling roadmap with enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access...
🏴 Ethereum's New AI Swarm
Digging into IMD, the rising AI experiment that has the potential to become a new kind of prolific workforce.
Inside IMD, Ethereum's New AI Swarm Experiment
A new kind of AI workforce is ascending in the Ethereum ecosystem, replete with experimental tokenomics. Here's why it matters, and how you might...
Bitget Hacked for $351.6M
A backend wallet breach drained $351.6M as hackers consolidate funds into ETH and investigators probe a DPRK link.
ZEC and NEAR Are Eating the Blue Chips' Bid
BTC:ETH::ZEC:NEAR! How Zcash and NEAR are drawing capital away from Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Join Us: EF Protocol Reddit AMA - September 16th, 2026
Every year since January 2019, teams from the Ethereum Foundation have spent an afternoon or two on r/ethereum answering questions from the...
EF Protocol: Current and Emerging Priorities
In May, the Protocol cluster welcomed a trio of new cluster coordinators and promised updates to follow. After months of settling in and aligning...
Raising machine-checked security benchmarks to advance hash-based SNARKs through agentic collaboration
better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge built by the Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity,...
Allocation Update - Q2 2026
Q2 2026 carried forward our focus on advancing Ethereum’s resilience and capabilities, supporting key work in zero-knowledge proofs, client...
Announcing a Trillion Dollar Security grant for WEBCAT
The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative is proud to announce a grant allocation to Freedom of the Press Foundation...
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,...
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...
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...