Clear Signing: Making Transaction Approvals Safer on Ethereum
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/05/12/clear-signing-announcement

An Ethereum Working Group consisting of wallet developers, security firms and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative today launched an open standard designed to end blind signing — a structural flaw that has contributed to billions in user losses, including the Bybit hack. Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative...
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Protocol Cluster Updates: May 2026
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/05/11/protocol-update-may-26

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, teams focused on hardening and preparation for the next upgrade, Glamsterdam. Several important milestones came out of the week, including: 200M gas limit floor established:...
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Soldøgn Interop Recap ☀️
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/05/02/soldogn-interop-recap

This past week, just over 100 Ethereum core contributors gathered above the Arctic Circle — in Longyearbyen, Svalbard — for the Soldøgn Interop: a week of intense work on the Glamsterdam network upgrade. Soldøgn followed last year's Berlinterop, but returned to the format used by Amphora 🏺, [Edelweiss 🏔️](https://blog.ethereum.org/2023/02/07/edelweiss-interop-recap...
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Announcing Cohort 7 of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/04/30/epf-7

TL;DR: 📝 Applications for EPF7 are open until May 13 🔎 Review the program details for EPF7 🎙️ An introductory town hall will be held on May 6 at 1500 UTC We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the seventh cohort of the [Ethereum...
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Allocation Update - Q1 2026
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/04/29/allocation-q1-26

Q1 2026 continued our focus on strengthening Ethereum’s foundations, with sustained investment in core domains like cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, security, and protocol research. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts we supported this quarter as builders advance critical infrastructure, tools, and research across the network. Explore...
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ETH Rangers Program Recap
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/04/16/eth-rangers-recap

In late 2024, the Ethereum Foundation, together with Secureum, The Red Guild, and Security Alliance (SEAL), launched the ETH Rangers Program, an initiative to provide stipends for individuals doing public goods security work in the Ethereum ecosystem. The goal of the program was straightforward: to fund independent efforts that...
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How L1 and L2s can build the strongest possible Ethereum
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/03/23/l1-l2-ethereum

*The North Star of the Platform team is for Ethereum to scale as a cohesive system and enable confident adoption by all users. This post is intended to share our perspective on the L1 \ L2 relationship, the roles of each layer, and how we (as an ecosystem) are leveraging...
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The Promise of Ethereum: Introducing the EF Mandate
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/03/13/ef-mandate

Dearest Friends, Today we are publishing the EF Mandate, a document that serves as part constitution, part manifesto, and part guide for the Ethereum Foundation. It is written primarily for the EF itself: to be clear about what we are here to do, the principles by which we...
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This Is Fine (Until the Grant Runs Out)
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/27/project-odin

The commons called. It wants a runway. Every so often, in the blockchain world’s usual cycle of funding scares, a team maintaining a widely used open source public good declares mayday. Libp2p is a core infrastructure stack that powers multiple Ethereum clients (among others) and a large part of...
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The Ethereum Foundation's Commitment to DeFi
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/23/commitment-to-defi

DeFi isn't a speculative bet on the future. It's the inevitable evolution of finance, driven by a fundamental truth: financial autonomy is a right, not a privilege. And it's been a critical driver of Ethereum's growth and adoption. We want to see DeFi thrive, but we're opinionated about what...
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Announcing the Platform Team at EF
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/17/platform

Platform is a new team inside the EF with one goal: Deliver the strongest possible Ethereum platform, where L1 and L2s are best positioned to support users, apps, and all organizations building on Ethereum. This requires improving the L1 \ L2 relationship, so that we grow as a mutually...
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Executive Leadership Update
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/13/leadership-update

Today, we are announcing a transition in the executive leadership team at the Ethereum Foundation. After extensive contributions to the Foundation’s mission and operations, Tomasz Stańczak has decided to step down from his role as Co-Executive Director. The Foundation’s Board has appointed Bastian Aue to serve as interim Co-Executive Director,...
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Introducing the EF Academic Secretariat 2026 PhD Fellowship
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/05/phd-fellowship

The EF's Academic Secretariat team is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural PhD Fellowship Program, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related academic research, by supporting Ethereum-related academic work led by PhD students....
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Trillion Dollar Security Day at Devconnect
https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/03/1ts-day-devconnect-ba

During Devconnect Buenos Aires, the Ethereum Foundation and Secureum TrustX brought together Ethereum security practitioners for Trillion Dollar Security Day, a focused event exploring what it would take to securely support a trillion-dollar Ethereum economy. The event brought together around eighty participants from across the Ethereum Security Ecosystem—spanning Infrastructure,...
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