
After Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin dropped out of college and launched Bitcoin Magazine, he wrote the Ethereum white paper, which proposed an open source protocol that would take what Bitcoin did for money and do it for everything else: contracts, social networks, and sharing economies. Now, less than a decade later, his idea is valued at about half a trillion dollars, and it is the foundation for the weird new world of NFT artworks, virtual real estate, and decentralized autonomous organizations.

This book is a collection of essays including "On Free Speech," which creates a whole new standard for free speech and how to protect it; "Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election," in which Buterin bets on the Trump-Biden election before and after it was decided, and how the prediction markets help explain the political situation today where so many believe Trump won; and the last essay in the book, "Crypto Cities," where Buterin observes the beginnings already in motion of a future where cities governed through blockchain better serve the public good than governing political institutions do today.

Understanding and engaging with Buterin's ideas will be of growing importance as the consequences of his invention continue to unfold and inspire debate worldwide.


The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains

Proof of Stake


Ethereum has reached one of its long awaited milestones — The Merge!

It was truly momentous. After 7 long long years, the Ethereum community managed to replace proof of work with a proof of stake consensus protocol. The immediate impact is reducing the network’s energy consumption by a whopping 99.95% and 0.02% of global electricity usage.

Hooray!

There are also many other technical benefits to celebrate the upgrade, but the benefits are lost to most of the community. It is time — especially now that proof of stake is protecting hundreds of billions of dollars — to write more accessible material on how it works, why it is important, and what exciting features await us. 

A series of articles to help explain the proof of stake protocol for researchers, developers, and users interested in the tech

How Proof of Stake Ethereum Works


ESP focuses on strengthening Ethereum's foundations and enabling future builders: improving infrastructure, expanding the range of tools available to those building on Ethereum, deepening our understanding of cryptographic primitives, and growing the builder ecosystem through education and community development. The work we support is open source, non-commercial and built for positive sum outcomes.

ESP support is generally directed toward enabling builders rather than end-users: strengthening Ethereum's infrastructure, expanding the range of tools available to those building on Ethereum, gaining a deeper understanding of cryptographic primitives, and growing the builder ecosystem through education and community development.

We provide grants and other support for open source projects that strengthen Ethereum's foundations, with a particular focus on builder tools, infrastructure, research and public goods

Ecosystem Support Program


In this video, I will guide you through the basics of the EVM, including its architecture, execution model, and bytecode. You'll learn how to write and deploy smart contracts using Solidity, and underlying working of EVM. This crash course is designed to be accessible to beginners, but also covers advanced topics. Whether you're a software engineer, blockchain enthusiast, or just curious about the inner workings of Ethereum, this video has something for you.

Welcome to the complete EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) crash course, presented by Uttam Singh

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