Ethereum in Ten Years: From Niche Hobby to Challenger of the Global Financial System
Today, Ethereum celebrates its tenth anniversary.
In the past decade, Ethereum has become one of the assets with the highest return on investment globally. Its market value has increased by 3600 times, reaching 450 billion US dollars, making it one of the top thirty assets by market capitalization worldwide. During the same period, NVIDIA's market value grew by 150 times, and Bitcoin's market value increased by 300 times.
In the past decade, Ethereum has become one of the safest financial systems in the world. Up to trillions of dollars in funds circulate on it, with the annual trading volume of stablecoins reaching $20 trillion. In addition, there are diversified ecosystems on Ethereum, including decentralized exchanges, staking systems, lending protocols, derivatives, and NFTs. It is worth noting that since its inception, the Ethereum mainnet has never experienced downtime, outages, or theft incidents.
Looking back, the Ethereum ecosystem has at least incubated three epoch-making products, and in these