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#ETH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Ethereum (ETH) is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization and is a decentralized blockchain platform. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum is designed to support smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps), which operate without any central authority.

Key Features of Ethereum:

Smart Contracts: Self-executing contracts with predefined rules directly written into code.

Decentralized Applications (dApps): Applications built on Ethereum that run on a peer-to-peer network.

Ether (ETH): The native cryptocurrency used to pay transaction fees and computational services on the Ethereum network.

Proof-of-Stake (PoS): Ethereum transitioned from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to PoS through "The Merge" in September 2022, making it more energy-efficient.

Use Cases:

DeFi (Decentralized Finance): Ethereum is the foundation for DeFi protocols that enable lending, borrowing, and trading without intermediaries.

NFTs: Non-fungible tokens, often used for digital art, are primarily minted on Ethereum.

Tokenization: Creation of tokens that represent assets like real estate, commodities, or intellectual property.

Current Developments:

Ethereum continues to work on scalability solutions like sharding to improve transaction speeds and reduce costs.

Layer 2 solutions (e.g., Arbitrum, Optimism) are gaining traction to offload transactions from the main chain.

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