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 event,...
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 launched an open standard...
The EF’s new structure | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Today, the EF is changing shape, concluding a months-long process of reorganization as part of the implementation of the Mandate and the Treasury...
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 centralized actor. As...
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 the work,...
EF Protocol: The Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List
This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and...
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...
Glamsterdam Repricing Impact for Smart Contract Developers
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The upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade includes a set of gas repricings. EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 (both scheduled for inclusion) adjust the cost of creating and...
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, is now live.
better.codes takes...
Allocation Update – Q2 2026
DAOs/GovernanceResearchFaculty Research Fellowship: Ethereum Studies (AY 2025–2026)Enables Prof. Strnad to dedicate substantial research time to Ethereum-focused problems, including DAO governance, decentralized system administration,...
