Ethereum validators observe unprecedented consecutive drops in network involvement

Quick Take Ethereum Shanghai upgrade occurs tomorrow, and the market is indecisive about the potential implications of the price of Ethereum in the short term. When analyzing the change in active validators, we see back-to-back negative adjustments for the first time.

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What Ether Validators Should Know As The Shanghai Hard Fork Nears

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Here's How Much Ethereum Validators Will Earn Post-Merge

Pintail, pseudonymous Ethereum (ETH) researcher, calculated average rewards of Ethereum (ETH) validators in its upcoming proof-of-stake (PoS) version

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Ethereum 2.0 Validators Are Making 3.2% Compounded Yearly Interest

So far, a significant portion of the total Ethereum supply is locked in the deposit contract. According to Flipside Crypto, a business intelligence firm for blockchain organizations, validators are earning 0.

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Ethereum 2.0 Tested With 100,000 Stakers

One of the most advanced ethereum 2. 0 client, Lighthouse, has successfully tested running the network with 100,000 validators according to Danny Ryan, the ethereum 2. 0 coordinator. “Lighthouse runs 100k validators.

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Ethereum 2.0 Testnet Attracts 22,000 Validators

One of the broadest testnets for Ethereum 2. 0 is advancing, already attracting 22,000 validators. The shift to proof-of-stake is still left for the future, but there are signs of incipient and growing interest.

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Buterin Wants to Speed Up Ethereum 2.0 Transition With ETH1-Friendly Validators

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wants to speed up transition to Ethereum 2.0 with new type of validator known as “eth1-friendly validators”

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Ethereum May Migrate to Ethereum 2.0 Through ?Friendly Validators?, According to Vitalik Buterin

A transition from Ethereum 1.0 to Ethereum 2.0 is an extremely risky and complicated process. Vitalik Buterin has made one more attempt to solve this problem.

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Ethereum Foundation Releases Ethereum 2.0 Dev Update: Audit, Explorer, 16K Validators

Ethereum 2.0 is slowly moving towards its mainnet launch. With all eyes on the Ethereum Foundation, developmental updates are published weekly. What's new for today?

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.

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Staking Economy #28: Proportional Slashing

A proposal to tie slashing penalties and stake, thoughts on on-chain governance by validators, Ethereum killers, Kava token model, NEAR Stake Wars and more.

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Ethereum 2.0 Validators to Earn up to 10% Annually for Staking: Report

Ethereum 2.0 validators can expect up to 10.3% as rewards for staking on the annual basis, ConsenSys’ Collin Myers says

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The Journey Towards Proof of Stake: Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 Testnet Released

Prysmatic Labs, an Ethereum development team focused on implementing Ethereum 2. 0, including full proof-of-stake and sharding, has launched a public testnet for phase 0 of it. This is a significant milestone as phase 0 testnet will allow users on the network to stake their ETH and become validators.

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Ethereum Staking Could Become A $160 million Sector Per Vitalik Buterin’s New Proposal

Ethereum Staking Could Very Well Become A $160 million Industry – According To Vitalik's Proposal According to a brand new proposal provided by the creator of Ethereum – Vitalik Buterin – he argues that he is contemplating an increase in rewards for the validators within the network who would serve to provide security on the […]

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Ethereum Staking Could Mean Huge Profits For Validators

Jonny Rhea, protocol engineer at ConsenSys, explains proof of stake and how Vitalik Buterin's proposal to increase validator rewards could affect the Ethereum ecosystem.

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Prysmatic Labs: Ethereum 2.0 is One Step Closer to its Public Prysm Testnet Release

Ethereum 2. 0 is now closer to release than ever. The team is currently targeting the v0. 4 release with a single client testnet and a highly available network that is resilient to forks and validator inactivity while allowing new validators to join the network.

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4 things that concern Vitalik Buterin about moving Ethereum to Proof-of-Stake

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently took to Reddit to discuss some of the biggest roadblocks ahead the network’s transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). According to Buterin, there are currently four major hurdles ahead of implementing Proof-of-Stake.

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Away from the spotlight: How is Kik’s KIN coin coming along?

KIN is a token that initially ran on top of Ethereum and Stellar, but then moved to its own blockchain, a forked version of Stellar Lumens. The Kin Blockchain is operating in a federated model. A federated blockchain is a form of permissioned consensus where validators are limited to those in the federation.

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A CBC Casper Tutorial

In order to help more people understand “the other Casper” (Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper), and specifically the instantiation that works best for blockchain protocols, I thought that I would write an explainer on it myself, from a less abstract and more “close to concrete usage” point of view.

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International Sky Group ICO

ISG tokens are released on the Ethereum platform using the ERC-20 standard, which is supported by most cryptographs. In addition to the release of the ISG token, during the ICO, it is planned to create its own blockchain ISG to support transactions within the ISG network.

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Brave Browser reveals new “SpeedReader” mode while BCH clash still raging

Loom Network launches PlasmaChain testnet, onboards external validators Loom Network, a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, released the testnet of its PlasmaChain network. PlasmaChain will operate as a central hub for token transactions, allowing for transacting between Ethereum’s blockchain and its sidechains.

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Minting the Future of Cryptocurrencies - [BTC Media Sponsor]

In 2009, Bitcoin was ushered in as an alternative to fiat currency, promising to revolutionize the future of peer-to-peer spending. Since then, it has spawned scores of other cryptocurrencies with various value propositions and potential.

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Op Ed: DApps Can Increase Audience Engagement for Creators and Influencers

Many of us are familiar with the term “DApp,” which stands for “decentralized application. ”Foundationally, a DApp is an application that runs using blockchain technology on a decentralized network of computers instead of on a central database.

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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.

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Notes on Blockchain Governance

In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.

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