🎉 ETHEREUM TURNS 10 🎂🧵
From Vitalik’s whitepaper to Web3's core layer… here’s what went down over the last decade 👇
2015 - Ethereum is born
Smart contracts go live. Gas is cheap. ETH is under $1. The nerds start mining. Everyone else says “lol what’s this?”
2017 - ICO mania
Raise $30M with a whitepaper and a dream. ETH pumps to $1.4k. Scams run wild. Degens win big… then lose it all.
2018 - Everything dies
ETH crashes 90%. Media calls it a “failed experiment”. Devs keep building. The ones who stay get battle-hardened.
2020 - DeFi Summer
Uniswap takes off. Farming, staking, yield everywhere. Gas goes from cents to $100+. ETH becomes money lego. Everyone becomes a degen.
2021 - NFT explosion
Apes, punks, rocks. JPEGs sell for millions. ETH hits $4.8k. Ethereum is now art, status, and culture. Lambo szn.
2022 - Collapse szn
LUNA nukes. Celsius melts. FTX rug pulls the world. ETH survives. Merge flips Ethereum to Proof of Stake. Historic upgrade, barely any hype.
2023 - L2 goes brrr
Rollups rise. Arbitrum, OP, zkSync, Base. ETH scales. Gas cools down. Onchain life feels usable again. Modular maxis take over.
2024 - Institutions enter
Staking hits ATH. Spot ETFs drop. Real world assets go onchain. ETH is no longer just a bet — it’s infrastructure.
Now in 2025… Ethereum is 10 years old.
It survived bear markets, hacks, forks, FUD, and VC greed. Still the place where everything happens first. Still degen. Still here.
Happy birthday ETH 🧙♂️🔥
What a decade. And we’re just getting started.
#EthereumTurns10
