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<strong>Ethereum</strong> <strong>Classic</strong> Documentation, Release 0.1<br />
DEVgrants program<br />
In April 2015, the DEVgrants program was announced, which is a program that offers funding for contributions<br />
both to the <strong>Ethereum</strong> platform, and to projects based on <strong>Ethereum</strong>. Hundreds of developers were already contributing<br />
their time and thinking to <strong>Ethereum</strong> projects and in open source projects. This program served to reward<br />
and support those developers for their contributions. The DEVgrants program continues to operate today and<br />
funding of the program was recently renewed in January 2016.<br />
• DEVgrants initial announcement<br />
• Announcement of new funding at DEVCON-1<br />
• DEVgrants public gitter room<br />
• DEVgrants talk at DEVCON-1 by Wendell Davis on YouTube<br />
Olympic testnet, bug bounty and security audit<br />
Throughout 2014 and 2015 development went through a series of proof of concept releases leading to the 9th<br />
POC open testnet, called Olympic. The developer community was invited to test the limits of the network and<br />
a substantial prize fund was allocated to award those holding various records or having success in breaking the<br />
system in some way or other. The rewards were announced officially a month after the live release.<br />
In early 2015, an <strong>Ethereum</strong> Bounty Program was launched, offering BTC rewards for finding vulnerabilities in any<br />
part of the <strong>Ethereum</strong> software stack. This has undoubtedly contributed to the reliability and security of <strong>Ethereum</strong><br />
and the confidence of the <strong>Ethereum</strong> community in the technology. The bounty program is currently still active and<br />
there is no end date planned.<br />
The <strong>Ethereum</strong> security audit began at the end of 2014 and continued through the first half of 2015. <strong>Ethereum</strong><br />
engaged multiple third party software security firms to conduct an end-to-end audit of all protocol-critical components<br />
(<strong>Ethereum</strong> VM, networking, Proof of Work). The audits uncovered security issues that were addressed and<br />
tested again and as a result ultimately led to a more secure platform.<br />
• Olympic testnet prerelease - Vitalik’s blogpost detailing olympic rewards<br />
• Olympic rewards announced - Vitalik’s blogpost detailing the winners and prizes<br />
• Bug bounty program launch<br />
• <strong>Ethereum</strong> Bounty Program website<br />
• Least Authority audit blogpost - with links to the audit report<br />
• Deja Vu audit blogpost<br />
The <strong>Ethereum</strong> Frontier launch<br />
The <strong>Ethereum</strong> Frontier network launched on July 30th, 2015, and developers began writing smart contracts and<br />
decentralized apps to deploy on the live <strong>Ethereum</strong> network. In addition, miners began to join the <strong>Ethereum</strong> network<br />
to help secure the <strong>Ethereum</strong> blockchain and earn ether from mining blocks. Even though the Frontier release is the<br />
first milestone in the <strong>Ethereum</strong> project and was intended for use by developers as a beta version, it turned out to<br />
be more capable and reliable than anyone expected, and developers have rushed in to build solutions and improve<br />
the <strong>Ethereum</strong> ecosystem.<br />
See also:<br />
• Original announcement of the release scheme by Vinay Gupta<br />
• Frontier is coming - Frontier launch announcement by Stephan Tual<br />
• Frontier launch final steps - Follow-up post to announcement<br />
• <strong>Ethereum</strong> goes live with Frontier launch<br />
• The frontier website<br />
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