The foundation for our digital future
Ethereum is open access to digital money and data-friendly services for everyone – no matter your background or location. It's a community-built technology behind the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of applications you can use today.
What is a Ethereum and how does it work? Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform that establishes a peer-to-peer network that securely executes and verifies application code, called smart contracts. Smart contracts allow participants to transact with each other without a trusted central authority.
Roszak is cofounder and chairman of Bloq, a blockchain technology startup that consults on projects such as helping banks store digital assets.
Bloq also helps companies that are trying to process transactions for "stablecoins," or cryptocurrencies pegged to the value of a fiat currency.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Roszak worked in VC and as an entrepreneur before amassing a crypto portfolio starting in 2012.
He settled insider trading charges in 2006 related to stock purchases of Blue Rhino, a propane tank exchange business.
Roszak recently co-led an initiative to give each member of Congress $50 worth of digital assets; some accepted, but not all.
"Web3 represents one of the greatest generational opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors." Matthew Roszak is a leading blockchain investor, entrepreneur and advocate. Mr. Roszak is chairman and co-founder of Bloq, a blockchain technology company – and the creators of Vesper, Titan, Lumerin, Atmos, Capsule and Metronome. Mr. Roszak is also founding partner of Tally Capital, a private investment firm focused on crypto and Web3 technologies, with a portfolio of market leading companies including: Binance, Block.One, Blockstream, Coinbase, Core Scientific, Messari, Niftys, Sfermion, and The Graph.
A cryptocurrency is an encrypted data string that denotes a unit of currency. It is monitored and organized by a peer-to-peer network called a blockchain, which also serves as a secure ledger of transactions, e.g., buying, selling, and transferring.
A cryptocurrency is an encrypted data string that denotes a unit of currency. It is monitored and organized by a peer-to-peer network called a blockchain, which also serves as a secure ledger of transactions, e.g., buying, selling, and transferring.
Ethereum is expected to hit $10,810 by 2025 before more than doubling to $26,338 by 2030,
Despite the challenge of predicting the price of a volatile cryptocurrency, the experts we spoke with generally agree ETH could once again break $4,000 in 2022.
According to a recent panel of 50 fintech experts on comparison site Finder, they expect Ethereum to climb to $5,114 by the end of 2021.
The Kintsugi 🍵 merge testnet, launched late December, has been a valuable testing ground for The Merge. Through various test suites, multi-client devnets, shadow forks of Goerli, application deployments, and the community’s help #TestingTheMerge, we’ve arrived at a set of stable and robust protocol specifications. Now that clients have implemented these latest specs, a successor to Kintsugi, Kiln 🔥🧱, is being launched! Like the Ethereum mainnet, Kiln’s execution layer was launched under proof-of-work in parallel to a Beacon Chain running...
Read DetailsToday, we disclosed the first set of vulnerabilities from the Ethereum Foundation’s Bug Bounty Programs. These vulnerabilities were previously discovered and reported directly to the Ethereum Foundation or client teams via the Bug Bounty Programs for both the Execution Layer and Consensus Layer. Through its Bug Bounty Programs, which allow the Ethereum Foundation (EF) to coordinate and cross-check vulnerabilities across clients, the EF currently accepts vulnerability reports for Nimbus, Teku, Lighthouse, Prysm, Lodestar, Go Ethereum, Nethermind, Erigon and Besu.
Read DetailsWe are excited to announce a new wave of grants to fund formal research that aims to create more knowledge about Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains. We encourage academics, research centers, PhD Students and all those interested in researching Ethereum to submit their project proposals. This grants round has up to $750,000 in total available funding.
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