What is Ethereum? Project, Platform, Fuel, Stack.

Posted by Joseph Lubin on May 14, 2014

What is Ethereum, the Project? The Ethereum Project is an open source, community-driven effort designed to create a next-generation distributed application platform intended to be maximally flexible and powerful in the possibilities that it enables. What is Ethereum, the Platform? The Ethereum Platform combines a generalized peer-to-peer networking platform with... [Read More]

DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on May 6, 2014

One of the most popular topics in the digital consensus space (a new term for cryptocurrency 2.0 that I’m beta-testing) is the concept of decentralized autonomous entities. There are now a number of groups rapidly getting involved in the space, including Bitshares (also known as Invictus Innovations) developing “decentralized autonomous... [Read More]

Serpent upgrades: More Fun Stuff

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on May 2, 2014

Over the past two weeks our primary focus has been getting all of the clients updated to PoC5 compatibility, and it definitely has been a long road. Among the changes to the VM include: The new init/code mechanism: basically, when you create a contract, the code provided will execute immediately,... [Read More]

Decentralized Protocol Monetization and Forks

Posted by Vitalik Buterin on April 30, 2014

The idea of releasing a new currency as a mechanism for funding protocol development is perhaps one of the most interesting economic innovations to come out of the cryptocurrency space. In the past twenty years, we have seen a growing centralization in the protocols that underlie the internet, with the... [Read More]