Ethereum celebrates its 10th anniversary — a revolutionary project that forever changed the world of cryptocurrencies, giving us smart contracts, dApps, and the DeFi ecosystem.

🔗 From Vitalik — to the whole world

👨‍💻 Vitalik Buterin and a team of like-minded individuals envisioned blockchain not just as a means of transferring money, but as a foundation for applications without intermediaries.

📈 Today, Ethereum has become the foundation of thousands of projects: NFT, DeFi, DAO, and all of Web3!

🔥 Key moments over 10 years:

  1. 2015 — official launch of Ethereum

  2. 2016 — The DAO hack and hard fork (split into ETH/ETC)

  3. 2020 — explosive growth of DeFi Summer

  4. 2022 — The Merge: transition from PoW to PoS

  5. 2024–2025 — growth of Layer 2 and implementation of EIP-4844 for scalability

💡 Ethereum today:

🌍 Over 100 million active addresses

💰 Transactions worth trillions of dollars

🧠 Thousands of developers create new solutions every day

🌱 Focus on sustainability and energy efficiency

🔮 The future of Ethereum:

🔸 Growth of Layer 2 solutions (Optimism, Arbitrum, zkSync)

🔸 Focus on user experience and speed

🔸 Becoming the foundation of an open and inclusive Web3

🎂 Happy Birthday, Ethereum!

🫶 Thank you for paving the way to a decentralized world. Wherever you go next — we are with you!


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