On the heels of the chaotic rollout of the EOS mainnet, EOS block producers have frozen seven accounts that were compromised through a phishing scam, leading to a constitutional crisis for the EOS government.
<h1>EOS Blockchain Is Live</h1>
After prolonged uncertainty, the embattled blockchain platform is now active and ready to use.
<h1>EOS Launches Without Getting Off The Ground</h1>
The EOS mainnet launched last week but the project is stalled. The EOS community has been unable to select the 21 block producers required for the project to move ahead.
<h1>Bancor’s Recent Token Promotion Gets Thumbs Down From Crypto Community</h1>
Bancor’s #100Tokens promotion – in recognition that the network has “activated” its hundredth token – has many questioning why it would be conducted on Twitter, which has often been the tool of scammers seeking to take advantage of the unsuspecting.
<h1>Parity Acts Quickly To Patch Ethereum Bug</h1>
A team of developers from Parity Technologies has patched a consensus bug and released updated software.
<h1>Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Releases Client Specification 1.0</h1>
Until today, organizations had to create proprietary versions of a permissioned corporate Ethereum implementation. Thanks to the EEA’s new client spec, the global development community can now design their Ethereum solutions via a coordinated, interoperable foundation.
<h1>Consensus 2018: Day 1 Roundup</h1>
During day 1 of Consensus 2018, one theme kept emerging: whether centralized networks are worth pursuing.
<h1>Ethereal Summit Highlights: Day 2</h1>
During the second day of Ethereal, speakers sought to answer: What does the future hold for blockchain technology and mass adoption?
<h1>Ethereal Summit Highlights: Day 1</h1>
The first day of Ethereal demonstrated that the race to drive blockchain innovation is a global one.
<h1>EIP0 And Ethereum’s Challenges For Collective Governance</h1>
While they were at EDCON 2018 in Toronto, key developers and instrumental players in the Ethereum ecosystem met to talk about Ethereum’s growing pains. But we’re not talking about scaling a blockchain. We’re talking about scaling a heretofore undefined system of governance for a rapidly growing, diverse community.
<h1>Ethereum’s Devcon4 Announced</h1>
Ethereum Foundation announces the next location of the annual Ethereum developer’s conference.
<h1>EDCON Toronto Highlights Ethereum’s Cutting Edge</h1>
The second Community Ethereum Development Conference kicked off in Toronto today. The event features technical talks by leading members of the Ethereum community on some of the most pressing ecosystem initiatives.
<h1>Ethereum Foundation Announces New Grant Recipients</h1>
The Ethereum Foundation continues to fund research and development for the advancement of the distributed application platform. Today’s grants provide insight into what critical infrastructure the foundation is focusing on.
<h1>Vitalik Buterin: ‘Sharding Is Coming’</h1>
Dramatic improvements to Ethereum’s transaction processing throughput might be closer than previously thought, according to recent social media hints from Vitalik Buterin.
<h1>EEA Releases Business Standards: The Enterprise Ethereum Architecture Stack</h1>
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance corporate consortium is releasing common business standards for organizations that use Ethereum.
<h1>Ethereum Security Lead Martin Holst Swende Publishes Thoughts On EIP 210</h1>
The security specialist published his thoughts on one of Ethereum’s currently prominent improvement proposals. His thoughts on the matter provide insight into some new features coming with the next hard fork, Constantinople.
<h1>Amid Forking Controversy, Ethereum Dev Van De Sande Notes Risks</h1>
As the Ethereum community debated a proposal to fork the network in order to unfreeze Ether tokens locked in some Parity wallets, developer Alex Van De Sande wrote a blog post arguing that any contentious hard fork would hurt the network. Along those lines, he advocates for finding a solution to the problem of the frozen tokens so that the parties which lost access to them are incentivized to continue supporting the current version of the Ethereum blockchain.
<h1>Casper FFG Hybrid PoW/PoS Consensus Model Published</h1>
Specifications for the implementation of Ethereum’s Casper were published today. The newly-designed approach for hybrid PoW/PoS consensus represents a significant milestone in the eventual transition to full PoS.
<h1>Report: Enterprise Ethereum Alliance To Release Uniform Business Blockchain Standards This Year</h1>
Information surfacing from a blockchain event in London suggests the EEA will soon release blockchain standards for the growing ecosystem.
<h1>Buterin Proposes ‘Minimal Sharding Protocol’ For Immediate Development</h1>
Vitalik Buterin has recommended that developers work on building a skeletal version of a sharding system until the Ethereum community is able to produce a more precise vision of how sharding will work.