Ethereum’s biggest milestones over the last 10 years:
♦ July 30, 2015: The Genesis block gets created
♦ June 17, 2016: The DAO gets hacked for 3.6 million ETH
♦ July 20, 2016: Ethereum launches controversial fork to return DAO hack funds
♦ June 23, 2017: CryptoPunks NFT collection launches with “free to claim” mint
♦ Dec. 5, 2017: CryptoKitties NFT craze clogs network as gas fees surge
♦ Dec. 13, 2017: “So total cryptocoin market cap just hit $0.5T today. But have we *earned* it?” - Vitalik Buterin
♦ Nov. 2, 2018: Uniswap V1 launches on mainnet
♦ Feb. 28, 2019: Constantinople hard fork launches, slashing block rewards to 2 ETH
♦ Mar. 12, 2020: “Black Thursday” sparks DeFi meltdown as ETH drops 50% in a day
♦ June 16, 2020: Compound launches COMP, kicking off “DeFi summer”
♦ Dec. 1, 2020: Beacon Chain goes live, inviting users to deposit 32 ETH for staking
♦ Dec. 18, 2020: Lido DAO launches, ushering in the advent of LSTs
♦ Mar. 11, 2021: Beeple’s “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days” NFT sells for $69 million
♦ Aug. 5, 2021: EIP-1559 launches as part of London hard fork
♦ Nov. 3, 2021: DeFi TVL tops $100 billion for the first time as ETH crosses $4,000
♦ Feb. 12, 2022: Ethereum total stablecoin supply sets new record high above $100 billion
♦ Aug. 8, 2022: OFAC sanctions Tornado Cash, arguing that it helps cybercriminals launder illicit funds
♦ Sep. 15, 2022: The Merge gets deployed as Ethereum completes transition to Proof-of-Stake
♦ Mar. 24, 2023: L2 TVL tops $10 billion for the first time
♦ Apr. 13, 2023: Shapella hard fork enables ETH staking withdrawals
♦ Mar. 13, 2024: Dencun introduces blobs with protodanksharding, slashing L2 fees
♦ July 23, 2024: First spot ETH ETFs go live in the US
♦ Apr. 28, 2025: Ethereum Foundation announces transition, commits to L1 scaling and UX improvements
♦ May 7, 2025: Pectra ships account abstraction and 2,048 ETH validator stakes, boosting UX
♦ July 30, 2025: Ethereum marks 10th birthday with 100% uptime
Ethereum’s biggest milestones to come over the next 10 years:
♦ Scaling the L1
♦ Seamless L2 interoperability
♦ Banking the unbanked
♦ ETH widely recognized as digital oil
♦ Global institutional adoption
♦ Crypto and AI converge on Ethereum
♦ DAOs help global communities coordinate at scale
♦ Digital art and other NFTs change popular culture
♦ The ZK and privacy era
♦ Ethereum becomes the trust layer for global finance
♦ Ethereum wallets and ENS replace Internet passwords
♦ 1 billion+ active users
♦ 50%+ ETH staked
♦ 100,000+ TPS
♦ $1 trillion+ stablecoin supply
♦ $1 trillion+ locked on L2
♦ $1 trillion+ market cap
♦ Distributed Validators adopted as the industry standard across every major Proof-of-Stake operator
Happy birthday to @ethereum. 10 years in, eternity ahead ✊
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