Ethereum at Five


Markets

Five Years In, DeFi Now Defines Ethereum

Ethereum has always struggled with explaining itself to the world. With DeFi, it's found not only a new avenue of development but of self-definition.

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Tech

Ethereum 2.0: Closer Than Ever, Still Plenty of Work to Do

Five years later, Ethereum is still chugging along as a decentralized platform for self-executing code. Eth 2.0 is quite close, but for real this time.

Ethereum art

Markets

CoinDesk Live Recap: Co-Founders Revisit Ethereum's Launch Drama

Ethereum was always a wild experiment. Now, five years later, a few early believers explain why they are more bullish than ever.

Camila Russo, Adam Levine, Ken Seiff and Anthony D’Onofrio (clockwise from upper left) discuss Ethereum's early days.

Tech

Ethereum History in 5 Charts

Five years ago this week, the first general-purpose blockchain went live on its mainnet. Here are five charts for understanding Ethereum's evolution.

The Ethereum team, Toronto, 2014. Duncan Rawlinson/Flickr Creative Commons

Tech

CoinDesk Live Recap: Ethereum's DeFi Luminaries Discuss What's Next

MakerDAO's Rune Christensen, Compound's Robert Leshner and Uniswap's Hayden Adams discussed the state of the $3.8 billion DeFi market.

Will Foxley, Hayden Adams, Rune Christensen and Robert Leshner (clockwise from upper left) discuss DeFi on CoinDesk Live. (Screenshot)

Markets

CoinDesk Live Recap: The DAO Hack Is Still a Mystery

The DAO attack was a foundational episode in Ethereum history. On Tuesday, CoinDesk Live gathered a handful of blockchain veterans to look back.

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Finance

Why DeFi on Ethereum Is Like Algorithmic Trading in the ‘90s

DeFi's surge has created an interesting dynamic: Traditional fund managers are beginning to experiment with what decentralization has to offer.

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Finance

How the EEA Made Ethereum Palatable to Big Business

Formed in 2017, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance helped large corporates and tech providers experiment with blockchain.

ConsenSys staffer and EEA board member Jeremy Millar speaks in 2018. (Ian Allison/CoinDesk archives)

Tech

One Billion, Two Billion, Three Billion, Four? DeFi's Knocking on TradFi's Door

DeFi is an overnight success years in the making. From "The DAO" hack to $3.6 billion in total value locked, here's the history of decentralized finance.

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Markets

Memories of London’s Devcon 1, Ethereum’s ‘Woodstock’ Moment

Ethereum’s Devcon 1, held in London in November 2015, featured adventuresome bankers and Big 4 consultants mingling with dreadlocked coders.

Christian Lundkvist and Vitalik Buterin (right) speak at Devcon 1. (Ethereum Foundation/YouTube)

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