Shipped, open-source and openly led; the main concerns are fees, past SEC scrutiny and hacks around it
Ethereum is an open-source blockchain, not a token run by one company. It launched its mainnet on July 30, 2015, and the Ethereum Foundation, a Swiss non-profit, is its main steward. Its founders are publicly named, and the official roadmap lists the Merge as completed on September 15, 2022. The SEC opened an investigation in 2023 and, per Consensys, closed it in June 2024, but the outcome is not a guarantee of future regulatory treatment. Users complain about high fees, and the wider ecosystem is regularly targeted by hackers. The evidence on community sentiment in our notes is thin.
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| Promised: Fund development through a public ether sale, with genesis block expected in winter 2014–2015 | The sale ran in July–August 2014 and raised 31,000 BTC, which Ethereum's history page puts at about $18 million at the time. Mainnet launched on July 30, 2015, later than the winter 2014–2015 target.late |
| Promised: Deliver a general-purpose platform for smart contracts and decentralized applications | Mainnet went live on July 30, 2015 with the genesis block, and ETH is the network's native asset.kept |
| Promised: Roadmap milestone: Paris (The Merge) | The official roadmap lists the Merge as completed on September 15, 2022.kept |
| Promised: Glamsterdam upgrade progressing on schedule | In late October 2026 developers fixed a deposit-processing bug in the specification (reported Oct 26, 2026). Activation on the Hoodi testnet was then postponed to study how EIP-8037 interacts with existing contracts, and ChainSecurity flagged 13 real-world contracts that could be affected. This looks like a delay for extra review, not a failure.late |
55% positive · 30% negative · the rest neutral, estimated from the public posts and reviews in our sources.
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