1 MILLION DEVELOPERS

AN OPEN MOVEMENT DEDICATED TO THE GROWTH OF THE ETHEREUM ECOSYSTEM

WHY WE’RE BUILDING

ON ETHEREUM

The Internet of money will change everything

You have the opportunity to be on the ground floor of something amazing. There’s a reason we are all here and all so passionate.

The largest blockchain community on the planet

Build on Ethereum and enjoy the benefits of best-in-class technology: more opportunities, collaborators, tools, material, funding, impact, and answers to all of your questions.

Ethereum was built by developers, for developers

While other protocols remain rigid and stagnant in their approach, Ethereum adopts all best-in-class ideas and advancements to continually build the best possible system.

OPEN SOURCE

Anyone can innovate, contribute, and create the next big thing.

TRANSPARENT

A transparent technology and community where code and decisions are open for everyone

DECENTRALIZED

Controlled by all network participants – not by any single entity, organization, or institution

TRUST-MINIMIZING

Trust that is established through code and mathematics, rather than through a reliance on humans

OPEN FINANCE

A parallel, borderless financial system without boundaries, censorship, or restriction

OPEN FINANCE

A parallel, borderless financial system without boundaries, censorship, or restriction

DIGITAL IDENTITY

Truly own and maintain sovereignty over your digital identity

DATA OWNERSHIP

Maintain ownership over the data you generate, and selectively disclose or sell it as you see fit.

AGREEMENTS

Establish agreements that rely on computer code, rather than a human arbiter, to settle.

WEB 2.0 VS WEB 3.0

What’s the difference?

What is a Web 2.0 Developer?

Web 2.0 developers are the builders of the modern participatory social web and have a wide array of tools at their disposal. These tools enable them to build much more advanced products and technologies than the developers of the Web 1.0 era, which consisted of static, read-only data; however, there are limitations to what they can do in their non-blockchain-enabled world.

What is a Web 3.0 Developer?

Web 3.0 developers are those ushering in the next evolution of the internet. Web 3.0 developers are merely Web 2.0 developers with an expanded, blockchain-enabled toolkit that comes with an arsenal of powerful new tools. These tools allow Web 3.0 developers to bake new features into their applications, such as provable digital scarcity, cryptographically-secure tamper-resistance, composability-by-default, and so much more.

CHOOSE

YOUR PATH

Choose your own adventure based on your experience and level of expertise

LEARN / EXPERIENCE

WEB 2 DEVELOPER

If you haven’t tinkered with Ethereum, you probably fall into this category. By following this path, you’ll first be exposed to the basic concepts of blockchain and Ethereum, and then progress into experiencing Ethereum first-hand.

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EXPERIENCE / BUILD

WEB 3 BEGINNER

If you’ve heard of Ethereum, have a basic understanding of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, and have maybe dabbled in a little bit of Solidity code, chances are that you’ll want to start here.

DISCOVER

CONTRIBUTE

WEB 3 EXPERT

If you know the ins and outs of Ethereum and the Web 3.0 space and want to share your knowledge with the community and the world, choose the Expert path.

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“The killerness of the ecosystem is not the nodes, it’s the links. Every single application that gets built is not just an application in its own right, it’s also a component that every future thing in the Ethereum ecosystem can benefit from.”

Vitalik Buterin
Founder, Ethereum

“The first Ethereum a-ha! moment is when you send ether to someone anywhere in the world at any time of day for less than a penny and they receive it instantly. You realize that you can be your own bank and you and your peers can build and run your own alternative global financial system that enables greater economic and political agency for any participant on the planet. In that instant you reclaim the optimism of youth.”

Joseph Lubin
CEO & Founder, ConsenSys
Co-Founder, Ethereum

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BECOME AN ETHEREUM DEVELOPER

Learn

Get your feet wet with understanding the basics of Ethereum and blockchain technology. Learn why so many people are so passionate about this space, and why it is a revolutionary technology that is here to stay.

Experience

Jump into Ethereum head-first and start playing with the many decentralized applications already deployed to the Ethereum Mainnet. Sometimes the best way to learn is to ‘do’! And don’t worry – the user experience of Ethereum is much better now than it has ever been – you don’t need to be at all technical to participate!

JOIN THE CONVERSATION

Communities

Immerse yourself in the vibrant and active Ethereum community which coordinates itself via various online mediums.

Events

Find an in-person Ethereum meetup near you! Every day, Ethereum-related events are happening around the world.

BECOME AN ETHEREUM DEVELOPER

Experience

Build

Now that you’ve seen what’s out there and what is possible, start building on Ethereum. Find the tools, resources, and platforms you need to deploy your first decentralized application.

JOIN THE ECOSYSTEM

Earn

Get paid for your contributions. Whether its through the gig economy or through a full-time role, there are ample opportunities available.

Events

Find an in-person Ethereum meetup near you! Every day, Ethereum-related events are happening around the world.

Acquire

Obtain gas to use as fuel in your utilization of the world computer known as Ethereum.

Communities

Immerse yourself in the vibrant and active Ethereum community which coordinates itself via various online mediums.

HELP GROW THE ECOSYSTEM

Contribute

The only way we will reach 1,000,000 Ethereum developers is with your help. Join the movement and help usher in the next iteration of the Web.

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CHECK THE PULSE

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View the data regarding the general health of the Etheruem ecosystem. Observe the community’s progress as we grow towards 1,000,000 developers.

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Vitalik Buterin

Mike Goldin

“Back when I was first learning Ethereum, one of the first things I thought was really cool about it was just that, woah, I don’t have to run my own servers. I don’t have to provision my own servers, I don’t have to maintain servers—it’s just Ethereum, and it’s always there. I thought that was really cool on its own. “

Billy Luedtke

“Ethereum was the first time I felt truly secure with respect to my assets in the digital world – as in, I knew exactly what was happening when I was transferring them, and could provably verify that my actions had executed exactly as intended – instead of placing my reliance and trust in some opaque, centralized institution and infrastructure.”

David Hoffman

‘Ethereum is the foundation for building an alternative Internet-based financial system. This financial system has the capacity to be completely open and trustless. This new financial system needs a native money to operate. Financial applications in this new landscape need a trustless form of collateral for their operation, and the only truly trustless asset on Ethereum is Ether.”

Anonymous Etherean

“The ability to create your own money? That’s better than any money we’ve ever seen? That’s never been possible. There have never been ways to create ANYTHING that was provably scarce! Even gold isn’t provably scarce – like, we could find an asteroid tomorrow with a bunch of gold on it.”

Dan Finlay

“On a decentralized application, there is no database of accounts, because there is no secret information, the ledger is public. Your account is in your hands. Each account is ultimately controlled by one or more secret keys, and so the security of all of cryptography relies on your ability to keep a secret, safely.”

Andy Beal

“Everything we move around the Internet is a copy – emails, photos, PDFs – you are never seeing the original of anything. Blockchain, for the first time, enables you to create and transfer truly one-of-a-kind digital assets. Now think about how many things in this world are unique, and you will realize the magnitude of the impact.”

Joseph Lubin

“The killer characteristic of the Ethereum ecosystem is composability – the fact that you can glue or compose a bunch of different protocols or products together into a more complex product, or that they can easily build upon one another, permissionlessly, is a breakthrough. It was described that the internet was architected in a way that if it saw censorship, it would route around that censorship and treat it as damage to the system. The decentralized world wide web will see silos as damage, and route around those.”