Welcome to Ethereum
Ethereum is the community-run technology powering the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of decentralized applications.
Ethereum is the community-run technology powering the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of decentralized applications.
ethereum.org is your portal into the world of Ethereum. The tech is new and ever-evolving – it helps to have a guide. Here's what we recommend you do if you want to dive in.
Ethereum is a technology that's home to digital money, global payments, and applications. The community has built a booming digital economy, bold new ways for creators to earn online, and so much more. It's open to everyone, wherever you are in the world – all you need is the internet.
Today, billions of people can’t open bank accounts, others have their payments blocked. Ethereum's decentralized finance (DeFi) system never sleeps or discriminates. With just an internet connection, you can send, receive, borrow, earn interest, and even stream funds anywhere in the world.
Ethereum isn't just for digital money. Anything you can own can be represented, traded and put to use as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). You can tokenise your art and get royalties automatically every time it's re-sold. Or use a token for something you own to take out a loan. The possibilities are growing all the time.
Today, we gain access to 'free' internet services by giving up control of our personal data. Ethereum services are open by default – you just need a wallet. These are free and easy to set up, controlled by you, and work without any personal info.
Ethereum and its apps are transparent and open source. You can fork code and re-use functionality others have already built. If you don't want to learn a new language you can just interact with open-sourced code using JavaScript and other existing languages.
You can build a bank run by logic you've programmed.
You can create tokens that you can transfer and use across applications.
You can use existing languages to interact with Ethereum and other applications.
You can reimagine existing services as decentralized, open applications.
The Ethereum roadmap consists of interconnected upgrades designed to make the network more scalable, secure, and sustainable.
See how Ethereum can open up new business models, reduce your costs and future-proof your business.
Ethereum is all about community. It's made up of people from all different backgrounds and interests. See how you can join in.
This website is open source with hundreds of community contributors. You can propose edits to any of the content on this site, suggest awesome new features, or help us squash bugs.
