Built to Last: Legacy by the Numbers

Metric Value / Insight

Uptime 0% downtime over 10 years

Upgrades 16 major protocol upgrades including The Merge (2022), Dencun (2024), Pectra (2025)

DeFi TVL $75 billion secured across Ethereum DeFi ecosystems

Stablecoin dominance >50% of global supply—over $123 billion stablecoins issued on Ethereum L1

Developer adoption Over 1.3 million active developers using Ethereum for apps and services.

Matters

The anniversary coincided with significant U.S. crypto policy shifts, reinforcing mainstream adoption credentials; a token of crypto’s coming of age .

Ethereum’s journey shows radical transformation, from a visionary whitepaper to a multi-trillion-dollar ecosystem that dwarfs earlier blockchain use cases .

As noted in the Financial Times, Ethereum epitomizes blockchain’s anti-fragility: resilient through market crashes, hacks, forks, and skepticism .

Ethereum’s tenth anniversary wasn’t just a birthday—it was a global reflection on a decade of open innovation, community building, and financial evolution. From smart contracts to NFTs, it has redefined what online value and ownership can look like. With institutional interest rising and continued protocol innovation ahead, Ethereum remains firmly entrenched as the bedrock of Web3.