#EthereumTurns10 Yes, Ethereum turned 10 years old on July 30, 2025!
July 30, 2015 – Ethereum mainnet launched with the Frontier release.
2016 – The DAO hack and the resulting hard fork led to the split into Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC).
2017 – The ICO boom happened, mostly built on Ethereum.
2020 – Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 launched with the Beacon Chain, beginning the transition to proof-of-stake.
September 15, 2022 – The Merge: Ethereum successfully transitioned from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS), drastically reducing energy consumption.
2023–2024 – Layer 2 adoption surged (Arbitrum, Optimism, zk-rollups), and network scalability significantly improved.
2025 – Ethereum completes 10 years as the leading smart contract platform with billions in DeFi, NFTs, and decentralized applications (dApps).
Ethereum was proposed by Vitalik Buterin in 2013 when he was just 19.
Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum was designed to be programmable — allowing developers to build decentralized apps (dApps) and smart contracts.
Today, it's home to most of DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Layer 2 innovations.
