Be Ethereum
-> 2015, born from a whitepaper and ambition: The world computer goes live
-> 2016, DAO hack wipes $60M, hard fork splits $ETH and $ETC, Ethereum survives
-> 2017, ICOs boom, CryptoKitties crash the chain and gas hits $5.
-> 2020, DeFi Summer melts mainnet, users pay $100 per swap, but builders stay
-> 2021, EIP-1559 burns ETH, supply starts shrinking, ultrasound money becomes real
-> 2022, The Merge, Ethereum drops Proof of Work for Proof of Stake, energy use down 99.9%, inflation turns negative, internet history rewritten
-> 2023, Shanghai unlocks staked ETH, restaking meta begins
-> 2024, Dencun Upgrade delivers proto-danksharding, L2 gas fees drop 10–20x, rollups finally go mainstream
-> 2025, Fusaka Upgrade rolls out full danksharding, data throughput skyrockets, Ethereum scales to millions of users
-> L2s become as cheap as centralized apps but remain fully decentralized
Ethereum went from
-> $100 gas to sub-cent transactions
->from PoW miners to PoS validators
->from hype to infrastructure
Ethereum defined trends and the story’s nowhere near over.
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