# Ethereum R&D Roundup: Valentine's Day Edition

DevFeed: [Ethereum R&D Roundup: Valentine's Day Edition](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ethereum-r-d-roundup-valentine-s-day-edition-16801.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/02/14/ethereum-rnd-roundup-valentines-day-edition>)

Author: Vitalik Buterin

Published: 2017-02-14T19:27:28Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Metropolis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/metropolis.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>)

Tags: [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [metropolis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metropolis.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

This Ethereum R&D roundup reports progress by the core development and research teams, including work on the Metropolis hard fork, zk-SNARKs, EIPs, Mist, Swarm, ENS, Solidity, Viper, Remix, and cpp-ethereum.

## Source excerpt

During the last month and a half, the Ethereum core development and research teams have been building upon the progress made in the last year, and with the specter of last year's security issues now well behind us, work has begun in full force on implementing the Metropolis hard fork....