#EthereumTurns10 #EthereumTurns10 — celebrating a decade of decentralized innovation:
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🎂 Ethereum Turns 10 — July 30, 2025
🚀 From Frontier to the Future:
Launched: July 30, 2015
Founders: Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, Joseph Lubin, and others
Initial Goal: Enable programmable smart contracts on a decentralized blockchain
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🌍 How the World Celebrated
🔔 Nasdaq Closing Bell: Ethereum honored in Times Square
🌐 ETHGlobal Meetups: Over 30 cities including NYC, Berlin, Dubai, Tokyo
🧬 Ethereum Foundation Torch NFT: Free mint for 24 hours—symbol of ETH’s evolution
📺 Livestreams & Panels: Featuring Vitalik, developers, and early contributors
🎉 Co-hosted events by 1inch, Polygon, and ConsenSys
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📊 10-Year Stats Snapshot
Metric Value (as of July 2025)
Market Cap ~$460 Billion
Total Value Locked (TVL) $83+ Billion (DeFi ecosystem)
ETH Price ~$3,800–$3,950
Blocks Secured Over 23 million
Active Wallets 115M+ unique addresses
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🧠 Ethereum's Biggest Impacts
🏦 DeFi Revolution: Uniswap, Aave, MakerDAO all launched on Ethereum
🎨 NFT Boom: CryptoPunks, Bored Apes, ArtBlocks — all Ethereum-based
🗳️ DAO Experiments: The DAO (2016), MolochDAO, Gitcoin Grants
⚙️ L2 Ecosystem: Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, zkSync and others scale Ethereum today
🌱 Proof-of-Stake Shift: Ethereum 2.0 “The Merge” (2022) cut energy use by 99.9%+
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🔮 What’s Next? Vitalik’s Vision
✅ Full Danksharding: Cheap rollup transactions at scale
📱 Better UX: Social recovery wallets, smoother onboarding
🔐 Privacy: Zero-knowledge proofs integrated natively
🏛️ Governance Evolution: Quadratic voting, protocol-level funding
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🧾 Anniversary Message from Vitalik Buterin:
> “Ethereum’s not just a technology—it’s a movement. The next 10 years will be about freedom, resilience, and coordination at scale.”
— Vitalik Buterin, July 30, 2025
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Would you like a downloadable infographic, or a summary of Ethereum’s top 10 moments over the decade?
