The Ethereum Foundation releases its first trillion-level security report, outlining six major security challenges.

According to Golden Finance, the Ethereum Foundation announced the “Trillion-Level Security” (1TS) plan last month, an ecosystem-level effort aimed at upgrading Ethereum’s security, and today released the first 1TS report to outline the existing security challenges in the Ethereum ecosystem. The Security Challenges Overview report outlines challenges in 6 key areas: user experience: issues that affect users securely managing private keys, interacting with on-chain applications, and signing transactions; Smart contracts: the security of smart contract components for Ethereum applications, and the software production lifecycle that shapes them; Infrastructure & Cloud Security: Infrastructure issues that Ethereum applications rely on (including cryptocurrency-specific and traditional infrastructure) such as L2 chains, RPCs, cloud hosting services, etc.; Consensus protocol: a security feature of the core protocol that protects the Ethereum blockchain from attacks or manipulation; Monitoring, incident response, and mitigation: the challenges faced by users and organizations in responding to security breaches, particularly in recovering funds or managing subsequent impacts; Social Layer & Governance: Ethereum’s open-source governance, community, and organizational ecosystem.