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Market value
$329.0B
Traded in 24 hours
$4.8B
Coins
122.1M ETH in circulation, and in total
Highest price ever
$4,946.05 24 August 2025
Rank
#2
Price · last 30 days

In its own words

“Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain network and software development platform, powered by the cryptocurrency ether (ETH).”

Checked 27 Sep 2026 at ethereum.org (opens in a new tab)

Published, not verified.

Genesis, Ethereum

First block
Etherscan (opens in a new tab)

Block 0. Every later block points back to this one.

Made
30 July 2015, 15:26 UTCEtherscan (opens in a new tab)

Block 0 carries no time of its own on this chain; this is block 1's.

Signed by
Vitalik Buterin and co-foundersethereum.org (opens in a new tab)

The whitepaper page describes Vitalik Buterin as “the primary co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain”, deploying it in 2015 “alongside co-founders including Gavin Wood and Joseph Lubin.” The whitepaper itself was published in 2014.

Ethereum began with the first
block
of its own chain.
“Frontier Jul 30, 2015, 3:26:13 PM UTC”
Launchethereum.org (opens in a new tab)
A genesis block. Ether is the native coin of the Ethereum chain, and it began with that chain's first
block
on 30 July 2015.

Etherscan (opens in a new tab)

Whitepaper
ethereum.org/whitepaper
ethereum.org (opens in a new tab)
Official site
ethereum.org
ethereum.org (opens in a new tab)
Show the technical record
Paid to
Nobody

Block 0 names no miner. Instead of one payment it wrote in the starting balances of the thousands of people who joined the 2014 sale.

Etherscan (opens in a new tab)
Listed start date
30 July 2015
CoinGecko (opens in a new tab)

Checked 22 Sep 2026. A record of beginnings, not advice.

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