Ethereum DAPPS

How native transaction assertions could enforce a transaction's final outcome https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/10/05/transaction-assertions The Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security initiative has identified blind signing and transaction uncertainty as a user experience risk, and is exploring native transaction assertions as a next step to enforce a transaction’s final outcome, alongside Clear Signing. This post covers why a valid signature doesn't always guarantee the...

Introducing zkAPI: private usage credits for any API https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/10/01/introducing-zkapi 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 zero-knowledge proofs instead of an identity. The provider sees the requests, and the payment layer sees the spend. Neither learns the link between them. The...

Glamsterdam Testnet Announcement https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/09/17/glamsterdam-testnet-announcement Glamsterdam follows the Fusaka upgrade, advancing Ethereum's L1 scaling roadmap with enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists, and changes to gas pricing that better reflect the cost of execution and state growth. The Glamsterdam network upgrade is scheduled to activate on Sepolia at epoch 353,024, slot 11,296,768 (October 6,...

Join Us: EF Protocol Reddit AMA - September 16th, 2026 https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/09/09/reddit-ama Every year since January 2019, teams from the Ethereum Foundation have spent an afternoon or two on r/ethereum answering questions from the community. The format hasn’t really changed: one thread, technical debates, detailed explanations, and community members asking whatever is on their mind. By now it is a tradition, and...

EF Protocol: Current and Emerging Priorities https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/09/07/protocol-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 with contributors cluster-wide, across the EF and across the Ethereum ecosystem, we are now happy to share Protocol's priorities: what Protocol is for, the commitments...

EF Protocol: The Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/09/07/protocol-hegota-eips This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade. It is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions. Geth, of course, being...

Glamsterdam Repricing Impact for Smart Contract Developers https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/08/24/glamsterdam-repricing-testing ...

Raising machine-checked security benchmarks to advance hash-based SNARKs through agentic collaboration https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/08/20/better-codes-challenge 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 a self-contained problem from the Proximity Prize research, formalized in Lean, and puts its soundness bound on a public leaderboard that anyone can push forward....

Allocation Update - Q2 2026 https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/08/18/allocation-q2-26 Q2 2026 carried forward our focus on advancing Ethereum’s resilience and capabilities, supporting key work in zero-knowledge proofs, client diversity, formal verification, and open-source tooling. See the list below of the projects and ecosystem efforts supported this quarter as builders build and strengthen the network. Explore the full list...

Announcing the Platåberget Testnet https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/08/17/plataberget-testnet tl;dr: Meet Platåberget: Glamsterdam's (Gloas + Amsterdam) early testing ground open to public participation. This upgrade comes with breaking changes for application developers. Notably, any tool that relies on a hardcapped maximum gas limit (think wallets, indexers and gas estimators) will break and needs to be updated. Please use this...