Buterin Says #Ethereum Must Never Go Down as $ETH Turns 10 With Zero Downtime.
Ethereum must never go offline, the co-founder said during the network’s 10th anniversary, highlighting its decade-long record of zero downtime and its mission to safeguard digital freedom.
Speaking during the network’s 10th anniversary livestream, industrial leader Buterin said constant uptime is critical to protecting digital rights and advancing human progress. The blockchain platform celebrated a decade online without a single interruption.
Launched on July 30, 2015, Ethereum introduced the world’s first smart contract blockchain. It aimed to give developers an open platform to build decentralized applications (dApps) without intermediaries.
Over the past 10 years, the network has processed billions of transactions, completed 16 major protocol upgrades, and powered entire sectors such as decentralized finance (DeFi), NFTs, and DAOs, according to Austin Griffith.
Despite network congestion and numerous challenges, Ethereum has never gone offline, an achievement that Vitalik Buterin emphasized as critical to the network’s goal of supporting global digital autonomy and human coordination. Notably, Vitalik stressed that Ethereum’s global, permissionless mission depends on constant uptime and censorship resistance.
