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The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has released a broad update, detailing its role in the ecosystem and its specific plans for resource allocation over the next 12 months.

As Ethereum’s shift to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) security is still in the works, its blockchain relies on the Ethash Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining algorithm. But, per the Ethereum Core developer call on April 26th, funding has now been secured to audit the ProgPoW code — an algorithm that is expressly resistant to extremely efficient ASIC miners.

In recent weeks, Ethereum’s various stakeholders have faced the rising specter of possible competition from the Polkadot Network, the forthcoming interoperability-focused blockchain play backed by the Web3 Foundation and being built by Parity Technologies.

This week, Gitcoin co-founder Kevin Owocki gave a presentation at CoinFund’s monthly Rabbithole Talks on open source sustainability efforts. Therein, he surveyed a series of development funding possibilities whose profiles have surged in the Ethereum community over the last month as builders have grappled with finding the best funding paths forward.

Amid a bearish cryptoeconomy since 2018, Ethereum’s march toward proof of stake (PoS), and rising ProgPoW debates, the Ethereum hashrate has fallen by 50 percent since the network’s all-time high hashrate of nearly 296 TH/s last August.

Vitalik Buterin, wearing his traditional whimsical garb (a celestial T-shirt with some kind of animal on it), stands on stage next to Laura Shin, crypto journalist and host of the Unchained podcast. She’s wearing a tasteful, wide-legged red pantsuit. They both look great. They sit down.

One of the most interesting conversations in cryptocurrencies emerged from a tweet by Vlad Zamfir, noted Ethereum researcher and, err, abstract thinker on topics as wide as political governance, social norms, and how we should update the legal system.

How much should you care about the price of Ether?

by Josh Stark, Evan Van Ness, and Daniel Zakrisson

The cryptocurrency panel at this year’s XBIZ event (the adult-industry Golden Globes to AVN’s Oscars) in West Hollywood is smaller than past years’ crypto panels. Blame the bear market, blame the fact that concurrent panels feature “name” performers, or blame the fact that one of the panelists failed to show up. Either way, that doesn’t stop the 20 or so attendees from laughing at SpankChain CEO A...

Core protocol development currently suffers from the Tragedy of the Commons, an age-old ailment in which participants benefit from a shared resource but, through self-interest, are disincentivized from contributing to its maintenance and growth.

Vitalik Buterin surprised the crypto community after a seemingly sudden decision to make several $100K worth of ETH donations to various projects focused on the development of software solutions for the Ethereum network.

The hacker who stole nearly $40,000 in ethereum from adult entertainment startup SpankChain has returned the stolen cryptocurrency, the company announced last night. According to messages posted on the company’s official Twitter account, SpankChain CEO Ameen Soleimani reached an agreement with the anonymous hacker after speaking to them on the phone. Following that conversation, the