Ethereum is a digital platform that adopts blockchain technology and expands its use to a wide variety of applications, while ether is its native cryptocurrency. In the world of digital finance, it is common for the cryptocurrency to be called by the network name, although they are not actually the same.
The Ethereum platform, created in 2015 by programmer Vitalik Buterin, aimed to be a tool for decentralized and collaborative applications on which smart contracts (dAPPs) can be made.
