Who founded Ethereum?

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Views: 0Created At: 9/2/2025Updated At: 9/16/2025
Ellen Karge
Ellen Karge
Software engineer, DeFi specialist. 软件工程师,DeFi专家。

Okay, regarding the founder of Ethereum, let me break it down for you.

Core Founder: Vitalik Buterin (Known as "V God")

When it comes to the founder of Ethereum, the first person everyone thinks of is undoubtedly Vitalik Buterin.

He is a Russian-Canadian, a recognized programming prodigy. What's even more legendary is that in 2013, at around 19 years old, he conceived and authored the Ethereum whitepaper, proposing this groundbreaking idea.

To help you better understand what he did, let me use an analogy:

  • Bitcoin: You can imagine it as a powerful calculator. It's impressive, but it primarily does one thing – ledger keeping and transactions.
  • Ethereum: V God believed that blockchain shouldn't just be a calculator; it should become a world computer, or rather, like a smartphone operating system (such as Android or iOS). On this system, anyone can develop and run their own applications (which we call DApps).

So, V God is the one who proposed the core concept and laid the soul of Ethereum. Because of his immense influence and genius contributions within the community, friends in China's crypto circles respectfully refer to him as "V God."

But it's not just V God's sole achievement

The creation of Ethereum is more like a story of a team of top experts "joining forces." While V God was the initial visionary, bringing this dream to life required an all-star team. Ethereum has a total of eight co-founders, and besides V God, several others are also prominent figures in today's blockchain world:

  • Gavin Wood: He served as Ethereum's "Chief Technology Officer" (CTO) and is a master of technical implementation. He wrote Ethereum's technical Yellow Paper, translating V God's ideas into concrete code. He later left Ethereum and founded the now very famous Polkadot and Kusama.
  • Charles Hoskinson: He served as Ethereum's CEO, responsible for business operations. He later left due to differences in development philosophy and founded another well-known public blockchain project, Cardano.
  • Joseph Lubin: He focused more on business and ecosystem development. After Ethereum's inception, he founded ConsenSys. This company acts like a "Whampoa Military Academy" for the Ethereum ecosystem, having incubated and supported countless applications and projects built on Ethereum, such as the popular MetaMask wallet.
  • Other co-founders include Anthony Di Iorio and Mihai Alisie, who also made significant contributions in the early stages.

In summary

So, if you ask who founded Ethereum?

The most core and direct answer is Vitalik Buterin (V God). He is the one who proposed the concept and laid the soul of it.

But a more complete and accurate statement is that Ethereum was led by Vitalik Buterin and co-founded with seven other co-founders. It is a miracle created by a prodigy and a group of industry elites.

Created At: 09-02 03:19:16Updated At: 09-02 03:19:16