🧠 Why is Ethereum the mother of tokens?
When you hear about cryptos like USDT, Shiba Inu, Chainlink, Apecoin, among others... many of them do not have their own blockchain, they live on Ethereum's! 🚀
👶 Ethereum was the cradle of thousands of tokens
🔹 Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum was not created just to be "digital money", but as a platform to create things on top of:
* Decentralized apps
* Finance without banks (DeFi)
* Games, NFT, and yes... tokens!
🏗️ How does it do it?
Thanks to **smart contracts**, which are like automatic programs that run on Ethereum's blockchain without anyone controlling them.
With that, developers can create **custom tokens**.
Example: USDT (Tether), which is a digital dollar, runs as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum.
🔤 What is that ERC-20?
It is the **standard** that most tokens on Ethereum use.
Like saying "everyone speaks the same language" so they can move, exchange, or be stored in any compatible wallet.
💡 Think of Ethereum as a huge city, and the tokens as buildings being constructed within it 🏙️
🧬 So, why is it the mother?
Because without Ethereum, thousands of tokens (and many crypto projects) would not exist.
It was the first to allow the creation of these digital assets with clear and easy-to-program rules.
