📘 Ethereum Fact Sheet ( $ETH )
🔹 Name: Ethereum
🔹 Symbol: Ξ
🔹 Ticker: ETH
🔹 Launch: July 30, 2015
🔹 Creators: Vitalik Buterin and team (includes Gavin Wood, Joseph Lubin, among others)
🔹 Network Type: Programmable Blockchain
🔹 Current Algorithm: Proof of Stake (PoS) – after The Merge (2022)
🔹 Previous Algorithm: Proof of Work (PoW – Ethash)
🔹 Maximum Supply: No fixed cap, but now deflationary in periods of high usage 🔥
🔹 Block Time: ~12 seconds
🔹 Nodes: +10,000 active worldwide
🔹 Native Token: ETH
🔹 Token Standards: ERC-20, ERC-721 (NFTs), ERC-1155
🔹 Advantages:
Platform for smart contracts 🤖📜
Base for thousands of DApps (finance, games, art, etc.) 🧩
Historic transitions (such as The Merge and future rollups) ⚙️
Very active development community 🛠
🔹 Risks:
Network fees (gas) can still be high during congestion ⛽
Competition from other faster blockchains (Solana, Avalanche, etc.) ⚔️
Scalability still in the process of improvement (rollups, sharding) 🔄
Possible vulnerabilities in poorly written contracts ⚠️
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