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Tecnologie

What’s Going On With Ethereum’s MEV-Boost?

Flashbots' block relayers continue to dominate the Ethereum validator ecosystem. And with them, censorship continues to grow.

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Tecnologie

Stanford Proposal for Reversible Ethereum Transactions Divides Crypto Community

Can Ethereum ward off hacks and exploits without compromising on its commitment to decentralization?

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Tecnologie

Evaluating Ethereum: 1 Week After the Merge

From validators to issuance to fees, here’s what Ethereum looks like now that the post-Merge dust is settling.

Más de 41.000 personas asistieron a la fiesta virtual de la Fundación Ethereum para hacer la cuenta regresiva y ser testigos de la fusión. (Canal de YouTube de la Fundación Ethereum)

Tecnologie

Monitoring the Merge: What a Successful Ethereum Upgrade Will Look Like

How to track the status of Ethereum’s shift to proof-of-stake with a few easy-to-use tools.

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Tecnologie

Ethereum Merge: What You Need to Know

Do you have any Merge questions? Here's our FAQ on the blockchain's coming overhaul.

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Tecnologie

Can Ethereum Out-Engineer the Censors by 'Shuttering' the Beacon Chain?

Ethereum’s developers are realizing censorship is not a problem that can just be coded away.

As the threat of censorship looms, a proposal to "shutter" Ethereum's Beacon Chain is getting some traction. (Julita/Pixabay)

Tecnologie

Ethereum Proof-of-Work Forks: Gift or Grift?

Ethereum will soon transition to a more energy-efficient system for processing transactions, but prominent crypto personalities are hell-bent on keeping the proof-of-work version of the chain alive. Why?

Why are some miners hell-bent on keeping Ethereum's proof-of-work chain alive? (Getty Images)

Tecnologie

Tornado Cash Fallout: Can Ethereum Be Censored?

In light of OFAC’s Tornado Cash sanctions, Ethereum's community debates what to do if validators censor sanctioned addresses.

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Tecnologie

Cloning Tornado Cash Would Be Easy, but Risky

The sanctioned Ethereum mixer’s code is open source. Anyone can copy and run it. The hard part: winning user trust – and staying out of the U.S. government’s crosshairs.

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Tecnologie

Goerli Is Coming: Ethereum’s Last Rehearsal Before the Merge

The Prater upgrade, the first component of the upcoming Goerli testnet merge, is happening this week.

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