Authereum Labs is turning our focus to Hop Protocol to bring composability to Ethereum’s layer-2 ecosystem. Hop allows users to quickly and cheaply send tokens across rollups and other Ethereum-based scaling solutions. High layer-1 gas fees have pushed Authereum’s onboarding costs to unsustainable levels. Today, it costs over $200 to…

We’re proud to officially introduce our plans for Hop Protocol. Hop allows users to quickly and easily transfer tokens directly between layer-2s, sidechains, and layer-1 Ethereum. …

I’m incredibly excited to announce that Authereum V1 is now live! You can check out the brand new Authereum. We’ve doubled down on security and have streamlined the entire experience. …

As part of our ongoing efforts to adjust to the recent surge in gas prices on Ethereum, we are changing to a model where new Authereum users cover the cost of their account deployments. …

A new wave of interest in DeFi on Ethereum has continued to drive gas prices to new heights. 📈

Starting on Wednesday, June 24th, transactions on partnered dapps including Erasure Bay, OpenSea, and Gitcoin will be free as well as transactions on authereum.com¹. All other transactions will require a transaction fee in line with the current market. Over the past few months we’ve seen gas prices rise to many…

Decentralized finance, or “DeFi”, has grown to become the undeniably dominant use case for Ethereum today. With funds locked in DeFi protocols exceeding $1 billion earlier this year, we are witnessing the start of an entirely new financial system being built from the bottom up. New DeFi protocols seem to…

How we got here Since we started Authereum, we’ve been focused on lowering the barriers to entry for Ethereum and making an experience that is simple and familiar for mainstream users. One of the largest barriers that new Ethereum users face is acquiring crypto to pay for transaction fees. It often involves signing up…

No funds were lost and accounts are secure — On Monday, February 17th, 2020, our team received a vulnerability disclosure from samczsun. The vulnerability takes advantage of the order of operations in one of the account contract’s meta transaction functions and allows an attacker take control of the account. Please see samczsun’s detailed write up here. Thanks to the…