
After Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin dropped out of college and launched Bitcoin Magazine, he wrote the Ethereum white paper, which proposed an open source protocol that would take what Bitcoin did for money and do it for everything else: contracts, social networks, and sharing economies. Now, less than a decade later, his idea is valued at about half a trillion dollars, and it is the foundation for the weird new world of NFT artworks, virtual real estate, and decentralized autonomous organizations.

This book is a collection of essays including "On Free Speech," which creates a whole new standard for free speech and how to protect it; "Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election," in which Buterin bets on the Trump-Biden election before and after it was decided, and how the prediction markets help explain the political situation today where so many believe Trump won; and the last essay in the book, "Crypto Cities," where Buterin observes the beginnings already in motion of a future where cities governed through blockchain better serve the public good than governing political institutions do today.

Understanding and engaging with Buterin's ideas will be of growing importance as the consequences of his invention continue to unfold and inspire debate worldwide.


The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains

Proof of Stake


We are building an open, peer-to-peer, lifelong network of awesome humans, one block at a time. Each block accommodates 250 individuals and runs for 8 weeks. 

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Kernel


Token engineering is the design, verification and optimization of token-based economic systems.
It is a cross-disciplinary field that draws from established practices in systems, electrical, robotics & controls engineering, and more. It also draws from fields as diverse as behavioural & ecological economics, operations research, AI & optimization, and others.

It is a methodology that goes all the way from ideation to design, modelling, simulation, testing, deployment, fraud detection & defense, and continuous optimization.

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Token Engineering Academy


ESP focuses on strengthening Ethereum's foundations and enabling future builders: improving infrastructure, expanding the range of tools available to those building on Ethereum, deepening our understanding of cryptographic primitives, and growing the builder ecosystem through education and community development. The work we support is open source, non-commercial and built for positive sum outcomes.

ESP support is generally directed toward enabling builders rather than end-users: strengthening Ethereum's infrastructure, expanding the range of tools available to those building on Ethereum, gaining a deeper understanding of cryptographic primitives, and growing the builder ecosystem through education and community development.

We provide grants and other support for open source projects that strengthen Ethereum's foundations, with a particular focus on builder tools, infrastructure, research and public goods

Ecosystem Support Program


Gitcoin Grants allows individuals to get funding for a public goods project they are working on. Gitcoin Grants leverages Quadratic Funding (QF) to allocate extra funding from a matching pool to the most impactful projects, based on the number of contributors.

Gitcoin—with the support of the Ethereum Foundation and other matching partners—aims to run at least quarterly rounds in 2022.

The hope is that the regularly scheduled rounds will allow grantees to use these funds as a strong funding source for their work in the Ethereum community.

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Gitcoin Grants


With these Treasury-funded community grants, we believe we are planting the first seeds of will grow to become a new model for funding open source. The aim is to directly support open source initiatives that help grow the Radicle product, the Radicle community, and the greater FOSS and Web3 community at large.

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Green Pill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for the world. Exploring the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design.

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