Ethereum
Ethereum was proposed in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin. Development was crowdfunded in 2014, and the network went live on 30 July 2015, with 72 million coins premined. In 2016, a hacker exploited a flaw in a third-party project called The DAO and stole USD 50 million of Ether. The platform is used for decentralized finance, and has been utilized...
