Morning Edition · Thursday, August 6, 2026Published at 1:33 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum Foundation Funds Browser Tool That Checks Whether a Website Serves the Code It Published
The grant to the Freedom of the Press Foundation targets front-end tampering, the attack that has repeatedly drained users who interacted with an unmodified smart contract.
The Ethereum Foundation has allocated a grant under its Trillion Dollar Security initiative to the Freedom of the Press Foundation for continued work on WEBCAT, an open-source system that lets a browser verify that the code a website serves…
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