> [!NOTE] > What's new > - Bootnodes updated: the Ethereum Foundation's bootnode fleet for mainnet, Sepolia and Hoodi has been replaced by its operators, and the new records ship here. Nodes pick the…
We have released Solidity v0.8.37. This is primarily a bugfix release. It contains three important bugfixes, two rated low/medium severity and one very low, as well as fixes for two smaller miscompil…
v3.6.1 is a bugfix and security release recommended for all users. It fixes a downloader regression that could silently replace a valid local snapshot (#23859), a peer-ban bypass that let a banned Ca…
What happens to the fee market when Glamsterdam changes transaction gas costs and the gas limit rises from 60M to 200M? More capacity should ease pressure on fees, but cheaper gas also attracts deman…
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, te…
> [!WARNING] > This release bumps the database schema (v3 → v4). The migration runs automatically at startup and rewrites nothing, so upgrading is a plain restart. It does mean a v26 datadir can no l…
s/o Toni for the artwork by Thomas , based on ideas and discussions with Vitalik and Toni Introduction Frame Transactions ( EIP-8141 ) allow applications to define their own validation and gas paymen…
Ethereum development needs to be faster. Today we're releasing hardhat-slang-solx , a Hardhat plugin that swaps in Nomic Foundation’s new Solidity compiler backend: slang-solx. Across our benchmark s…
YAY! Another fork with 10+ repricing EIPs Just what we needed after the Glamsterdam repricings… Joking aside, repricings are an important piece of the Ethereum roadmap that can have both positive and…
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 acr…
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…
Special thanks to Toni Wahrstätter, Vitalik Buterin, Derek Chiang, and Iván Litteri for reviewing and sharing feedback on this post. A founding principle of Ethereum is to create an environment that…