What is Ethereum
Ethereum is the foundation for a new era of the internet:
- An internet where money and payments are built in.
- An internet where users can own their data, and your apps don’t spy and steal from you.
- An internet where everyone has access to an open financial system.
- An internet built on neutral, open-access infrastructure, controlled by no company or person.
- Launched in 2015, Ethereum is the world’s programmable blockchain.
But unlike other blockchains, Ethereum can do much more. Ethereum is programmable, which means that developers can use it to build new kinds of applications.
These decentralized applications (or “dapps”) gain the benefits of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. They are reliable and predictable, meaning that once they are “uploaded” to Ethereum, they will always run as programmed. They can control digital assets in order to create new kinds of financial applications. They can be decentralized, meaning that no single entity or person controls them.
Right now, thousands of developers all over the world are building applications on Ethereum, and inventing new kinds of applications, many of which you can use today:
- Cryptocurrency wallets that let you make cheap, instant payments with ETH or other assets
- Financial applications that let you borrow, lend, or invest your digital assets
- Decentralized markets, that let you trade digital assets, or even trade “predictions” about events in the real world
- Games where you own in-game assets, and can even make real money
- And much, much more.
- The Ethereum community is the largest and most active blockchain community in the world. It includes core protocol developers, cryptoeconomic researchers, artists, cypherpunks, mining organizations, ETH holders, gamers, app developers, grandmothers, anarchists, fortune 500 companies, and, as of now, you.
Welcome to Ethereum.
Not sure where to go next?
- Want to get started using Ethereum? Check out some applications built on Ethereum.
- Curious to learn more about Ethereum and its technology? View our Ethereum guides and learning resources or read the original Ethereum whitepaper.
- Are you a developer interested in building on ethereum? Get started building on Ethereum here.
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