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Ethereum
Initial release30 July 2015
Repository
Written inC++, Go, Rust
Operating systemClients available for Linux, Windows, macOS, POSIX, Raspbian
Platformx86, ARM
TypeDecentralized computing
LicenseGPLv3, LGPLv3[1]
Websitewww.ethereum.org
Ethereum Price History
Ethereum Price History

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality.[2] It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes. Ethereum also provides a cryptocurrency token called "ether", which can be transferred between accounts and used to compensate participant nodes for computations performed.[3] "Gas", an internal transaction pricing mechanism, is used to mitigate spam and allocate resources on the network.[2][4]

Ethereum was proposed in late 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency researcher and programmer. Development was funded by an online crowdsale between July and August 2014.[5] The system went live on 30 July 2015, with 11.9 million coins "premined" for the crowdsale.[6] This accounts for approximately 13 percent of the total circulating supply.

In 2016, as a result of the collapse of The DAO project, Ethereum was forked into two separate blockchains - the new forked version became Ethereum (ETH), and the original continued as Ethereum Classic (ETC).[7][8][9]

History

Origin

Ethereum was initially described in a white paper by Vitalik Buterin,[10] a programmer involved with Bitcoin Magazine, in late 2013 with a goal of building decentralized applications.[11][12] Buterin had argued that Bitcoin needed a scripting language for application development. Failing to gain agreement, he proposed development of a new platform with a more general scripting language.[13]: 88 

At the time of public announcement in January 2014, the core Ethereum team was Vitalik Buterin, Mihai Alisie, Anthony Di Iorio, and Charles Hoskinson.[14] Formal development of the Ethereum software project began in early 2014 through a Swiss company, Ethereum Switzerland GmbH (EthSuisse).[15][16] Subsequently, a Swiss non-profit foundation, the Ethereum Foundation (Stiftung Ethereum), was created as well. Development was funded by an online public crowdsale during July–August 2014, with the participants buying the Ethereum value token (ether) with another digital currency, bitcoin.[5] While there was early praise for the technical innovations of Ethereum, questions were also raised about its security and scalability.[11]

Milestones

Several codenamed prototypes of the Ethereum platform were developed by the Foundation, as part of their Proof-of-Concept series, prior to the official launch of the Frontier network.

"Olympic" was the last of these prototypes, and public beta pre-release.[17][18] The Olympic network provided users with a bug bounty of 25,000 ether for stress testing the limits of the Ethereum blockchain.

"Frontier" marked the tentative experimental release of the Ethereum platform in July 2015.[19][20]

Since the initial launch, Ethereum has undergone several planned protocol upgrades, which are important changes affecting the underlying functionality and/or incentive structures of the platform.[21][22]

"Homestead" was the first to be considered stable.[23][24] It includes improvements to transaction processing, gas pricing, and security.[25][23][26]

There are at least two other protocol upgrades planned in the future:

"Metropolis" is intended to reduce the complexity of the EVM and provide more flexibility for smart contract developers.[22] Metropolis also adds supports for zkSnarks (from Zcash); with the first zksnarks transaction occurring on testnet on September 19, 2017.[27]

"Serenity" should include a fundamental change to Ethereum's consensus algorithm to enable a basic transition from hardware mining (proof-of-work) to virtual mining (proof-of-stake).[22][28] Improvements to scalability, specifically sharding, are also said to be a key objective on the development roadmap.[29][30]

Version Code name Release date
Old version, no longer maintained: 0 Olympic May, 2015
Old version, no longer maintained: 1 Frontier 30 July 2015
Old version, no longer maintained: 2 Homestead 14 March 2016
Current stable version: 3 Metropolis (vByzantium) 16 October 2017
Future release: 3.5 Metropolis (vConstantinople) TBA [27]
Future release: 4 Serenity TBA
Legend:
Old version
Older version, still maintained
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release

The DAO event

In 2016 a decentralized autonomous organization called The DAO, a set of smart contracts developed on the platform, raised a record US$150 million in a crowdsale to fund the project.[31] The DAO was exploited in June when US$50 million in ether were claimed by an anonymous entity.[32][33] The event sparked a debate in the crypto-community about whether Ethereum should perform a contentious "hard fork" to reappropriate the affected funds.[34] As a result of the dispute, the network split in two. Ethereum (the subject of this article) continued on the forked blockchain, while Ethereum Classic continued on the original blockchain.[35] The hard fork created a rivalry between the two networks.[36]

Hard Forks

After the hard fork related to The DAO, Ethereum subsequently forked twice in the fourth quarter of 2016 to deal with other attacks.[37] By the end of November 2016, Ethereum had increased its DDoS protection, de-bloated the blockchain, and thwarted further spam attacks by hackers.[26]

Architecture

Ether

Ether
Unit
SymbolΞ or ETH‎
Demographics
User(s)Worldwide
Issuance
Currency typeCryptocurrency

The value token of the Ethereum blockchain is called ether. It is listed under the code ETH and traded on cryptocurrency exchanges, and the Greek uppercase Xi character (Ξ) is generally used for its currency symbol. It is also used to pay for transaction fees and computational services on the Ethereum network.[38]

Ethereum Virtual Machine

The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)[39][40] is the runtime environment for smart contracts in Ethereum. The formal definition of the EVM is specified in the Ethereum Yellow Paper, original version by Gavin Wood.[41][better source needed][42] It is sandboxed and also completely isolated from the network, filesystem or other processes of the host computer system. Every Ethereum node in the network runs an EVM implementation and executes the same instructions. Ethereum Virtual Machines have been implemented in C++, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Rust, and WebAssembly (currently under development).[43][44]

Smart contracts

Main article: Smart contract

Smart contracts are deterministic exchange mechanisms controlled by digital means that can carry out the direct transaction of value between untrusted agents.[45] They can be used to facilitate, verify, and enforce the negotiation or performance of economically-laden procedural instructions and potentially circumvent censorship, collusion, and counter-party risk. In Ethereum, smart contracts are treated as autonomous scripts or stateful decentralized applications that are stored in the Ethereum blockchain for later execution by the EVM. Instructions embedded in Ethereum contracts are paid for in ether (or more technically "gas") and can be implemented in a variety of Turing complete scripting languages.[2]

Contracts on the public blockchain

As the contracts can be public, it opens up the possibility to prove functionality, e.g. self-contained provably fair casinos.[46]

One issue related to using smart contracts on a public blockchain is that bugs, including security holes, are visible to all but cannot be fixed quickly.[47] One example of this is the 17 June 2016 attack on The DAO, which could not be quickly stopped or reversed.[32]

There is ongoing research on how to use formal verification to express and prove non-trivial properties. A Microsoft Research report noted that writing solid smart contracts can be extremely difficult in practice, using The DAO hack to illustrate this problem. The report discussed tools that Microsoft had developed for verifying contracts, and noted that a large-scale analysis of published contracts is likely to uncover widespread vulnerabilities. The report also stated that it is possible to verify the equivalence of a Solidity program and the EVM code.[48]

Programming languages

Main article: Solidity

Smart contracts are high-level programming abstractions that are compiled down to EVM bytecode and deployed to the Ethereum blockchain for execution. They can be written in Solidity (a language library with similarities to C and JavaScript), Serpent (similar to Python), LLL (a low-level Lisp-like language), and Mutan (Go-based, but deprecated). There is also a research-oriented language under development called Viper (a strongly-typed Python-derived decidable language).[49]

Performance

In Ethereum all smart contracts are stored publicly on every node of the blockchain, which has trade-offs.[50] Being a blockchain means it is secure by design and is an example of a distributed computing system with high Byzantine fault tolerance. The downside is that performance issues arise in that every node is calculating all the smart contracts in real time, resulting in lower speeds.[50] As of January 2016, the Ethereum protocol could process 25 transactions per second.[50] 19 December, Ethereum exceeded one million transactions in a single day for the first time.[51]

  • Micro Raiden was launched November 2017.[52]
  • Buterin and Joseph Poon (a co-author of Bitcoin's lightning network whitepaper) announced in 2017 their plan to launch a scaling solution called Plasma which creates "child" blockchains to the "main" parent blockchain.[53] The plasma project is not without skeptics, specifically Vlad Zamfir (Ethereum's lead researcher on proof of stake) has publicly questioned the plasma project's viability.[53]
  • Ethereum engineers have been working on sharding the calculations, and the next step (called Ethereum 2) was presented at Devcon 3.[54]

Ether supply increase rate

The supply of Ether was projected to increase by 14.75% in 2017, with an algorithm in place to gradually decline to 1.59% by 2065.[55][unreliable source?] However, a new implementation of Ethereum named "Casper" based on proof of stake rather than proof of work is expected to reduce the inflation rate to between 0.5% to 2%.[56][57]

Proposed uses

Many uses have been proposed for Ethereum platform, including ones that are impossible or unfeasible.[58][59][38] Use case proposals have included finance, the internet-of-things, farm-to-table produce, electricity sourcing and pricing, and sports betting.[38][60] Ethereum is (as of 2017) the leading blockchain platform for initial coin offering projects, with over 50% market share.[61]

Ecosystem

The projects listed in this section are not exhaustive and may be outdated.

Clients and wallets

These cryptocurrency wallets support Ethereum:

  • Jaxx: Desktop wallet[62]
  • KeepKey: Hardware wallet[63]
  • Ledger Nano S: Hardware wallet[64]
  • Mist: Desktop wallet[65]

Decentralized applications

Enterprise software

Ethereum-based customized software and networks, independent from the public Ethereum chain, are being tested by enterprise software companies.[90] Interested parties include Microsoft, IBM, JPMorgan Chase,[38][91] Deloitte,[92] R3,[93] Innovate UK (cross-border payments prototype).[94][95]

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)

In March 2017, various blockchain start-ups, research groups, and Fortune 500 companies announced the creation of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) with 30 founding members.[96] By May, the nonprofit organization had 116 enterprise members—including ConsenSys, CME Group, Cornell University's research group, Toyota Research Institute, Samsung SDS, Microsoft, Intel, J.P. Morgan, Cooley LLP, Merck KGaA, DTCC, Deloitte, Accenture, Banco Santander, BNY Mellon, ING, and National Bank of Canada.[97][98][99]

The purpose of the EEA is to coordinate the engineering of an open-source reference standard and private "permissioned" version of the Ethereum blockchain that can address the common interests of enterprises in banking, management, consulting, automotive, pharmaceutical, health, technology, mobile, entertainment, and other industries, while working with developers from the Ethereum ecosystem. Certain members of the alliance have also indicated a desire to investigate and collaborate on hybrid architectures to potentially anchor private blockchains to the public Ethereum blockchain in the future, although concerns remain over the security, compliance, and regulations involved in bridging such permissioned and "permissionless" blockchains.[96]

By July 2017, there were over 150 members in the alliance, including recent additions MasterCard, Cisco Systems, and Scotiabank.[100] (Mastercard wanted their name excluded from the press release.[101])

Permissioned ledgers

Ethereum-based permissioned blockchain variants are used and being investigated for various projects.

  • J.P. Morgan Chase is developing a permissioned-variant of Ethereum blockchain dubbed "Quorum."[102] It's designed to toe the line between private and public in the realm of shuffling derivatives and payments. The idea is to satisfy regulators who need seamless access to financial goings-on, while protecting the privacy of parties that don’t wish to reveal their identities nor the details of their transactions to the general public.[103]
  • Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that it has built a Clearing and Settlement Mechanism (CSM) based on the Ethereum distributed ledger and smart contract platform.[104][105]

Ethereum Name Service

Ethereum Name Service

Academic and professional reception

Dan Boneh of Stanford and Vipul Goyal of Carnegie Mellon told CNBC that some of their respective students are starting their own cryptocurrency projects.[106] Cornell University, UC Berkeley, and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology formed the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (aka IC3), which later joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.[107]

Criticisms

Criminal use

A finance blogger on FT Alphaville has pointed out that criminals are using Ethereum to run Ponzi schemes and other forms of investment fraud.[108] The article was based on a paper from the University of Cagliari, which placed the number of Ethereum smart contracts which facilitate Ponzi schemes at nearly 10% of 1384 smart contracts examined. However, it also estimated that only 0.05% of the transactions on the network were related to such contracts.[109]

Speculative bubble

Main article: Cryptocurrency bubble

CBS noted in 2017 that price hikes in Ethereum, (as well as Litecoin and Bitcoin), are creating most of the excitement, rather than technology.[110]

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