#以太坊十周年# The Ethereum network introduced smart contracts to the crypto world, and it has been 10 years since the Genesis Block was mined on July 30, 2015. Now, Ethereum is the second largest crypto asset after Bitcoin, with a market capitalization of $458.7 billion. The blockchain has made significant progress since its initial goal of becoming a globally decentralized and censorship-resistant computer. In its ten years of development, Ethereum has gone through a series of key phases: groundbreaking upgrades, financial experiments, cultural fervor, and increasing institutional adoption. It has also faced rigorous scrutiny from regulators and has withstood tests of internal splits and external competition.

 
What might happen in the next ten years

For Ethereum core developer Preston Van Loon, this anniversary is highly significant as it marks ten years of uninterrupted operation of the Ethereum network, with no downtime since the Genesis Block. He told Sherwood: "This resilience demonstrated during technical challenges and upgrades reflects the deep reliability and credibility of Ethereum, which has become the foundation of the entire ecosystem."
The first decade of Ethereum has passed, but network participants insist that the network is just getting started.
"Infrastructure has only just begun to support record levels of actual usage, especially in areas like stablecoins," said Schiarizi. "This gradually maturing trend means that the network is just starting to show its full potential." She added that on-chain assets and stablecoins in the real world "have just begun to scale up—this indicates that, compared to the situation 10 to 20 years after the birth of finance and the internet, we are still in the early stages." She also pointed out that Ethereum still has technical debt. The next upgrade of the network is planned for the end of 2025, and there is still much work to be done on Ethereum's roadmap. "A decade is still young. Today, I remain optimistic about the roadmap for the next ten years, just as I was ten years ago," Schiarizi ( said.