Ethereum News

On February 28, the Constantinople hard fork took place at block #7280000 on the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency by capitalization, Ethereum. Simultaneously with Constantinople, the St. Petersburg hard fork was activated on the Ethereum network. Its task is to disable the EIP-1283 protocol, in which

The implementation of the ProgPow algorithm in Ethereum has been postponed; it was supposed to reduce the efficiency of Bitmain's ASIC miners when mining Ethereum , which, in turn, would have made graphics processors more competitive. This decision was made by the Ethereum developers during a conference call this

The transaction volume in the Ethereum network in December 2018 reached $115 million, which according to specialists of the analytics company Diar is the maximum value over the entire existence of the Ethereum project...

The Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network will probably be activated at the end of February. This decision was made during a conference call on the morning of January 18. The Ethereum developers proposed carrying out the transition of the Ethereum network to the new software between February 26 and 28...

The Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network is being postponed. The decision to postpone the hard fork was made by the Ethereum developers because of a critical vulnerability found in one of the upcoming upgrades...

The Ethereum hard fork – Constantinople – is due to take place from January 14 to 18. Cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, Hotbit, BitMart, ABCC, Bittrex, Huobi, EtherFlyer, TOK, BitForex and others have announced their readiness to support the upcoming Ethereum Constantinople hard fork...

A system for boosting the performance of the Ethereum network has been successfully tested. The new solution for increasing the scalability of the cryptocurrency, Ignis, was developed by the Ethereum Foundation team together with specialists from the startup Matter Inc...

The blockchain startup Parity Technologies has received a grant of $5 million from the Ethereum Foundation. The grant was issued to support Parity Technologies' work on creating the next iteration of the Ethereum 2.0 blockchain network...

Ethereum developers have decided to take a new step in the fight against ASIC mining by introducing a new algorithm that will close access to the network for miners using ASIC equipment, leaving mining to those who practice cryptocurrency mining in the traditional way...

From time to time you can hear claims that the Ethereum cryptocurrency uses too much energy during mining and is therefore inefficient and harmful to the environment. After repeated claims of this kind, Ethereum decided to switch to Proof-of-Stake...