The genius of Vitalik Buterin was recognising that for a trustless cryptocurrency ecosystem to grow it needed a common language and a common set of economic standards. By providing this Ethereum does all the heavy lifting for supporting creators of digital applications, you just have to come up with a problem that will benefit from a decentralised solution, and use Solidity to express it mathematically within a Smart Contract, which includes:
- Creating your own Currency
- Creating a dApp
If you aren’t a creator but would rather help maintain the Ethereum ecosystem there are several clear options:
- Becoming a validator in the new Proof of Stake Ethereum blockchain
- Staking Ethereum to a pool run by a validator
- Running an Ethereum Node
If you don’t want to run a Node you can use one of the existing APIs and build value-added services for Ethereum users:
- Wallets, block explorers, analytics tools, fee estimators
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