Articles Tagged “Smart Contracts”
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Ethereum Glamsterdam on Sepolia: What 200M Gas Means Next
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade is live on Sepolia with in-protocol PBS, parallel validation and a near-200M gas limit, over 3x mainnet's current 60M.
S&P Global Buys OpenZeppelin to Rate Onchain Risk
S&P Global agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the smart contract security firm whose libraries underpin $37 trillion in transfers and 900+ audit engagements.
Blockchain Oracles Explained: How Data Gets On-Chain
Blockchain oracles feed real-world data to smart contracts. Here is how push and pull feeds, aggregation and staleness checks work in practice today.
Ethereum Hegota Upgrade Shortlists 66 EIPs for 2027
Ethereum's 2027 Hegota upgrade is down to 66 candidate EIPs, with FOCIL the only one locked in and a three-proposal package aiming at native privacy.
1inch Aqua Opens Shared DeFi Liquidity on 13 Chains
1inch opened its Aqua protocol to all users across 13 EVM chains, letting providers back multiple positions from one self-custodied balance.
BIS Project Agorá: Tokenization Powers Faster Cross-Border Payments
BIS Project Agorá's prototype proves tokenized cross-border payments enable atomic, around-the-clock multi-currency settlement with smart-contract compliance.
Biconomy and Ethereum Foundation Propose ERC-8211: The Execution Standard for AI Agents in DeFi
ERC-8211 is a new Ethereum smart batching standard enabling AI agents to execute complex multi-step DeFi transactions atomically — co-published by Biconomy and the Ethereum Foundation with a live reference implementation.
Alabama Gives DAOs Full Legal Status — Making It the Second U.S. State After Wyoming
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the DUNA Act on April 1, granting DAOs formal legal entity status with property rights, contract authority, and member liability protection effective October 2026.
Ethereum Gets a Commerce Layer for AI Agents — ERC-8183 Enables Trustless Hire-Deliver-Pay Workflows On-Chain
Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereum Foundation propose ERC-8183, a new standard that lets autonomous AI agents transact commercially using escrow contracts and on-chain evaluators.
Ethereum Foundation Quadruples Its Maximum Bug Bounty to $1 Million — Funded by the $220M DAO Security Reserve
Critical vulnerabilities that could affect the entire Ethereum blockchain now qualify for payouts up to $1 million, backed by $220 million in unclaimed funds from the 2016 DAO hack.