# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-06T05:33:07.606Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-06/ethereum-foundation-funds-browser-tool-that-checks-whether-a
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](https://blog.ethereum.org/2026/08/05/1ts-grant), [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/06/23/cointelegraph-hit-by-front-end-exploit-fake-phishing-airdrop-pop-up-on-website)

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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