🌐 Ethereum#ETH

– The Smart Contract Pioneer

Ethereum #ETH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, created by Vitalik Buterin in 2015. Unlike Bitcoin, which focuses on peer-to-peer payments, Ethereum is a decentralized platform for building and running smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps) without downtime or censorship.

Powered by the Ethereum Virtual Machine #evm developers use it to create everything from DeFi protocols to #NFTs and games. In 2022, Ethereum transitioned from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake via "The Merge," reducing its energy use by over 99%.

#ETH is not just a currency—it's gas that powers the entire Ethereum ecosystem.