What is Ethereum (ETH)?

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.

Is Ethereum about to get a makeover?

Ether will pay interest and more closely resemble normal financial instruments. Ethereum is about to get a makeover. The popular crypto network that runs Ether, the world’s second-most-valuable digital currency, could morph as early as Sept. 14 into a configuration that shakes up the entire crypto universe.

What is a block order in Ethereum?

The sequence of all blocks that have been committed to the Ethereum network in the history of the network. So named because each block contains a reference to the previous block, which helps us maintain an ordering over all blocks (and thus over the precise history).

What is ether and how does it work?

Ether is the native currency of Ethereum, an open-source blockchain platform. Ethereum was founded in 2013 by Russian-Canadian programmer Vitalik Buterin and several other crypto entrepreneurs. Many of the people who started Ethereum were previously involved in bitcoin. For Buterin, bitcoin was too limited in functionality.