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Ethereum: Smart Contracts, Staking, & Web3's Future Explained

Ethereum: Smart Contracts, Staking, & Web3's Future Explained

Ethereum: Smart Contracts, Staking, and the Web3 Future Explained Why Ethereum Matters in 2025 If Bitcoin is digital gold, Ethereum is the engine room of the digital economy. Launched in 2015 by a then-19-year-old Vitalik Buterin and a small group of developers, Ethereum began with a bold idea: what if blockchain could do more than just move money? What if it could run applications, automate agreements, and power an entirely new financial and social infrastructure? Fast-forward to 2025, and Ethereum has delivered on that promise. It is now the most widely used programmable blockchain in the world, supporting everything from decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to tokenized securities and carbon credit markets. Its native currency, ether (ETH), is the second most valuable cryptocurrency after Bitcoin , with trillions of dollars in assets and transactions moving through the network every year [Invesco, 2025]. The 2022 shift from energy-intensive proof-of-work mining to…

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