Vitalik Buterin

O osobě

Russian-Canadian programmer and co-founder of Ethereum. Proposed the Ethereum protocol in 2013 at nineteen, envisioning a general-purpose blockchain with a Turing-complete scripting language that could host smart contracts and decentralised applications far beyond simple value transfer. Ethereum launched in 2015 and became the foundation for DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and most of the programmable-money ecosystem. An active essayist on cryptography, mechanism design, and political philosophy at vitalik.eth.limo.