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| 2019 || March 13 || || “Abra Adds Native Support for Ethereum” <ref>{{cite web |title=Abra Adds Native Support for Ethereum {{!}} Finance Magnates |url=https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/abra-adds-native-support-for-ethereum/ |website=Finance Magnates {{!}} Financial and business news |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=13 March 2019}}</ref>  
 
| 2019 || March 13 || || “Abra Adds Native Support for Ethereum” <ref>{{cite web |title=Abra Adds Native Support for Ethereum {{!}} Finance Magnates |url=https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/abra-adds-native-support-for-ethereum/ |website=Finance Magnates {{!}} Financial and business news |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=13 March 2019}}</ref>  
 
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| 2019 || April 23 || || “French Lender Societe Generale Issues $112 Million Bond on Ethereum” <ref>{{cite web |title=French Lender Societe Generale Issues $112 Million Bond on Ethereum |url=https://www.coindesk.com/french-lender-societe-generale-issues-112-million-bond-on-ethereum |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=23 April 2019}}</ref>   
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| 2019 || April 23 || Adoption || “French Lender Societe Generale Issues $112 Million Bond on Ethereum” <ref>{{cite web |title=French Lender Societe Generale Issues $112 Million Bond on Ethereum |url=https://www.coindesk.com/french-lender-societe-generale-issues-112-million-bond-on-ethereum |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=23 April 2019}}</ref>   
 
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| 2019 || April 24 || || “Samsung Developing Own Blockchain on Ethereum” <ref>{{cite web |title=Samsung Developing Own Blockchain on Ethereum {{!}} Finance Magnates |url=https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/samsung-is-developing-its-own-blockchain-on-ethereum/ |website=Finance Magnates {{!}} Financial and business news |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=24 April 2019}}</ref>  “Samsung Developing Ethereum-Based Blockchain, May Issue Own Token” <ref>{{cite web |title=Samsung Developing Ethereum-Based Blockchain, May Issue Own Token |url=https://www.coindesk.com/samsung-developing-ethereum-based-blockchain-may-issue-own-token |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=24 April 2019}}</ref>  “Samsung is Developing Ethereum-Based ”Samsung Coin”, Currently Building New Blockchain Mainnet” <ref>{{cite web |last1=Pihl |first1=Rasmus |title=Samsung is Developing Ethereum-Based ”Samsung Coin”, Currently Building New Blockchain Mainnet |url=https://toshitimes.com/samsung-is-developing-ethereum-based-samsung-coin/ |website=Toshi Times |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=24 April 2019}}</ref>  
 
| 2019 || April 24 || || “Samsung Developing Own Blockchain on Ethereum” <ref>{{cite web |title=Samsung Developing Own Blockchain on Ethereum {{!}} Finance Magnates |url=https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/samsung-is-developing-its-own-blockchain-on-ethereum/ |website=Finance Magnates {{!}} Financial and business news |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=24 April 2019}}</ref>  “Samsung Developing Ethereum-Based Blockchain, May Issue Own Token” <ref>{{cite web |title=Samsung Developing Ethereum-Based Blockchain, May Issue Own Token |url=https://www.coindesk.com/samsung-developing-ethereum-based-blockchain-may-issue-own-token |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=24 April 2019}}</ref>  “Samsung is Developing Ethereum-Based ”Samsung Coin”, Currently Building New Blockchain Mainnet” <ref>{{cite web |last1=Pihl |first1=Rasmus |title=Samsung is Developing Ethereum-Based ”Samsung Coin”, Currently Building New Blockchain Mainnet |url=https://toshitimes.com/samsung-is-developing-ethereum-based-samsung-coin/ |website=Toshi Times |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=24 April 2019}}</ref>  
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| 2019 || August 22 || || “Ethereum Poised to Be First Public Blockchain in Hyperledger Consortium” <ref>{{cite web |title=Ethereum Poised to Be First Public Blockchain in Hyperledger Consortium |url=https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-could-become-first-public-blockchain-with-official-hyperledger-project |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=22 August 2019}}</ref>  
 
| 2019 || August 22 || || “Ethereum Poised to Be First Public Blockchain in Hyperledger Consortium” <ref>{{cite web |title=Ethereum Poised to Be First Public Blockchain in Hyperledger Consortium |url=https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-could-become-first-public-blockchain-with-official-hyperledger-project |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=22 August 2019}}</ref>  
 
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| 2019 || September 16 || || “BitPay Launches Support for Ethereum” <ref>{{cite web |title=BitPay Launches Support for Ethereum |url=https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/09/16/1916048/0/en/BitPay-Launches-Support-for-Ethereum.html |website=GlobeNewswire News Room |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=16 September 2019}}</ref> “BitPay Now Lets Merchants Accept Ethereum’s Cryptocurrency” <ref>{{cite web |title=BitPay Now Lets Merchants Accept Ethereum's Cryptocurrency |url=https://www.coindesk.com/payment-service-bitpay-announces-ether-integration |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=16 September 2019}}</ref>  
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| 2019 || September 16 || Adoption || “BitPay Launches Support for Ethereum” <ref>{{cite web |title=BitPay Launches Support for Ethereum |url=https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/09/16/1916048/0/en/BitPay-Launches-Support-for-Ethereum.html |website=GlobeNewswire News Room |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=16 September 2019}}</ref> “BitPay Now Lets Merchants Accept Ethereum’s Cryptocurrency” <ref>{{cite web |title=BitPay Now Lets Merchants Accept Ethereum's Cryptocurrency |url=https://www.coindesk.com/payment-service-bitpay-announces-ether-integration |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=16 September 2019}}</ref>  
 
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| 2019 || September 24 || || “Ethereum expands blockchain capacity by 25%” <ref>{{cite web |last1=Heasman |first1=Decrypt / Will |title=Ethereum expands blockchain capacity by 25% |url=https://decrypt.co/9573/ethereum-expands-blockchain-capacity-by-25-percent |website=Decrypt |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=24 September 2019}}</ref>   
 
| 2019 || September 24 || || “Ethereum expands blockchain capacity by 25%” <ref>{{cite web |last1=Heasman |first1=Decrypt / Will |title=Ethereum expands blockchain capacity by 25% |url=https://decrypt.co/9573/ethereum-expands-blockchain-capacity-by-25-percent |website=Decrypt |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=24 September 2019}}</ref>   
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| 2019 || October 1 || || “Ethereum Scaling Project SKALE Raises $17.1 Million for Mainnet Launch” <ref>{{cite web |title=Ethereum Scaling Project SKALE Raises $17.1 Million for Mainnet Launch |url=https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-scaling-project-skale-raises-17-1-million-for-mainnet-launch |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=1 October 2019}}</ref>  
 
| 2019 || October 1 || || “Ethereum Scaling Project SKALE Raises $17.1 Million for Mainnet Launch” <ref>{{cite web |title=Ethereum Scaling Project SKALE Raises $17.1 Million for Mainnet Launch |url=https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-scaling-project-skale-raises-17-1-million-for-mainnet-launch |website=CoinDesk |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=1 October 2019}}</ref>  
 
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| 2019 || October 8 || || “UNICEF Launches Crypto Fund, Backed by Ethereum Foundation” <ref>{{cite web |title=UNICEF Launches Crypto Fund, Backed by Ethereum Foundation |url=https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/unicef-launches-crypto-fund-backed-by-ethereum-foundation/ |website=Finance Magnates {{!}} Financial and business news |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=9 October 2019}}</ref> ““The Ethereum Foundation is excited to demonstrate the power of what Ethereum and blockchain technology can do for communities around the world. Together with UNICEF, we're taking action with the Cryptofund to improve access to basic needs, rights, and resources”” <ref>{{cite web |title=UNICEF launches Cryptocurrency Fund |url=https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unicef-launches-cryptocurrency-fund |website=www.unicef.org |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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| 2019 || October 8 || Adoption || “UNICEF Launches Crypto Fund, Backed by Ethereum Foundation” <ref>{{cite web |title=UNICEF Launches Crypto Fund, Backed by Ethereum Foundation |url=https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/unicef-launches-crypto-fund-backed-by-ethereum-foundation/ |website=Finance Magnates {{!}} Financial and business news |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en |date=9 October 2019}}</ref> ““The Ethereum Foundation is excited to demonstrate the power of what Ethereum and blockchain technology can do for communities around the world. Together with UNICEF, we're taking action with the Cryptofund to improve access to basic needs, rights, and resources”” <ref>{{cite web |title=UNICEF launches Cryptocurrency Fund |url=https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unicef-launches-cryptocurrency-fund |website=www.unicef.org |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
 
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| 2019 || November 27 || || “UPBIT REPORTS ‘IRREGULAR WITHDRAWAL’ OF $51 MILLION IN ETHEREUM” <ref>{{cite web |title=Upbit Reports 'Irregular Withdrawal' of $51 Million in Ethereum |url=https://bitcoinist.com/51-million-in-ethereum-removed-from-upbit/ |website=Bitcoinist.com |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=27 November 2019}}</ref>  
 
| 2019 || November 27 || || “UPBIT REPORTS ‘IRREGULAR WITHDRAWAL’ OF $51 MILLION IN ETHEREUM” <ref>{{cite web |title=Upbit Reports 'Irregular Withdrawal' of $51 Million in Ethereum |url=https://bitcoinist.com/51-million-in-ethereum-removed-from-upbit/ |website=Bitcoinist.com |access-date=18 February 2021 |date=27 November 2019}}</ref>  

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Time period Development summary More details
2013 "After the release of Bitcoin, blockchain quickly grabbed the imaginations of developers around the globe. In 2013 this led a Canadian developer, Vitalik Buterin, to propose a new platform which would allow for decentralized application to usher in a new era of online transactions."[1]
2015 "In 2015, following an initial fundraiser, Ethereum was launched and 72 million coins were minted. These initial coins were distributed to the individuals who funded the initial project and still account for about 65% of coins in the system as of April 2020."[1]
2016 "This split followed a 2016 system manipulation that saw the theft of $50 million worth of Ether. "[1]

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
2013 November 27 "The introductory paper, published in 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, before the project's launch in 2015."[2]
2014 April 1 "The Yellow Paper, authored by Dr. Gavin Wood, is a technical definition of the Ethereum protocol."[2]
2014 July 22 "Ether officially went on sale for 42 days. You could buy it with BTC."[2]
2015 July 30 "Frontier was a live, but barebone implementation of the Ethereum project. It followed the successful Olympic testing phase. It was intended for technical users, specifically developers. Blocks had a gas limit of 5,000. This ‘thawing’ period enabled miners to start their operations and for early adopters to install their clients without having to ‘rush’."[2]
2015 July 30 “Ethereum Launches Long-Awaited Decentralized App Network” [3]
2015 July 31 “Ethereum Has Launched” [4] “Ethereum Launches; But Leaked Chat Says Project Needs ‘Years More’” [5]
2015 August 7 “Ethereum offers platform for decentralized enterprise applications” [6]
2015 September 7 "The frontier thawing fork lifted the 5,000 gas limit per block and set the default gas price to 51 gwei. This allowed for transactions – transactions require 21,000 gas."[2]
2015 September 28 “Ethereum Creator Discloses $9 Million Funding Shortfall” [7]
2015 October 4 “Imogen Heap shows how smart music contracts work using Ethereum” [8]
2015 October 28 Partnership “Microsoft Partners With ConsenSys To Use Ethereum To Provide Blockchain-As-A-Service” [9]
2015 October 28 “Microsoft Rolls Out Ethereum Toolkit for Business Users” [10]
2015 November 2 Partnership “Microsoft Partners With Ethereum Company, Offers Cloud-Based Blockchain Application Development Platform To Its Clients” [11]
2015 December 8 “Microsoft Adds Ripple to Azure Blockchain Service, Expands Ethereum Tools” [12]
2016 January 28 “Ethereum Overtakes Litecoin In Market Cap After Continued Upward Trend” [13]
2016 February 25 “Ukraine Government Plans to Trial Ethereum Blockchain-Based Election Platform” [14]
2016 March 14 "The Homestead fork that looked to the future. It included several protocol changes and a networking change that gave Ethereum the ability to do further network upgrades."[2][15]
2016 April 4 “Mexican Cryptocurrency Exchange Bitso Adds Ethereum Market” [16]
2016 April 11 “Ethereum Used for ‘First’ Paid Energy Trade Using Blockchain Tech” [17]
2016 April 28 “Vitalik Buterin Pitches Hyperledger Project on Ethereum Integration” [18]
2016 March 1 “Microsoft Certifies Ethereum Offering in Blockchain Service First” [19]
2016 March 1 “Ethereum Announces the Launch of Homestead” [20] "Ethereum Blockchain Project Launches First Production Release"[21]
2016 May 19 “Ethereum Developer Explores the Dark Side of Bitcoin-Inspired Technology” [22]
2016 May 24 “Ethereum, explained: why Bitcoin's stranger cousin is now worth $1 billion” [23]
2016 June 17 “Digital currency Ethereum nose-dives after $50 million hack” [24]
2016 June 17 “This morning, users of the Ethereum cryptocurrency woke up to some very alarming news. Someone was trying out a new attack on one of the currency’s biggest and richest institutions, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization or DAO. The DAO holds immense cash reserves, and someone had figured out a way to drain out $53 million” [25]
2016 June 21 “The developers behind Ethereum are hacking the hacker that hacked it” [26]
2016 June 28 “New Vulnerability May Prevent Ethereum Soft Fork – CoinDesk” [27]
2016 July 20 “Ethereum Executes Blockchain Hard Fork to Return DAO Funds” [28] "The DAO fork was in response to the 2016 DAO attack where an insecure DAO contract was drained of over 3.6 million ETH in a hack. The fork moved the funds from the faulty contract to a new contract with a single funtion: withdraw. Anyone who lost funds could withdraw 1 ETH for every 100 DAO tokens in their wallets."[2][29]““Hard Fork” Coming to Restore Ethereum Funds to Investors of Hacked DAO” [30]
2016 July 24 “Ethereum Hard Fork Creates Competing Currencies” [31]
2016 August 10 “Ethereum grabbed headlines with a controversial hard fork that has split the Ethereum community. Ethereum is hardly the only way forward for the enterprise blockchain. But for those advocating blockchain as mature enough for enterprise problems, the high drama of the Ethereum fork has to be disconcerting” [32]
2016 August 11 “Ethereum Scaling Advances With 'First' Off-Blockchain Payments” [33]
2016 August 25 “Ethereum Wallet Update Sparks Debate Over 'Corporate' Integration” [34]
2016 August 25 “The main new feature of this Ethereum Wallet release is the inclusion of the Coinbase Buy Widget (a quick FIAT gateway that allows the instant purchasing of up to $5 worth in cryptocurrency)” [35]
2016 September 9 “DAO Hacker Donates Some Stolen Funds To The Ethereum Classic Developers” [36]
2016 September 19 “On September 18th, hours before the Ethereum Foundation devcon 2 conference was about to start, a DOS security alert was posted on the Ethereum blog” [37]
2016 September 26 “Within seconds the decentralized eSports platform raised just over $6 million in Ethereum (ETH 465,312.999), in what seems like a new record for speedy funding time in the blockchain assets ecosystem.” [38]
2016 October 3 “JP Morgan is Quietly Developing a Private Ethereum Blockchain” [39]“J.P. Morgan Chase is developing a blockchain, commonly referred to as a public ledger, atop a crypto-network called Ethereum” [40]
2016 October Hard fork "The Tangerine Whistle fork was the first response to the denial of service (DoS) attacks on the network (September/October 2016) including:"[2] "Tangerine Whistle - October 2016"[1][2]
2016 November 2 “Ethereum Bug Sends Smart Contracts Back to the Drawing Board” [41]
2016 November 3 “Microsoft Doubles Down on Ethereum With New Blockchain Product” [42]
2016 November 9 “Deloitte Opens Ethereum Identity Platform to Blockchain Developers” [43]
2016 November 22 Hard fork "The Spurious Dragon fork was the second response to the denial of service (DoS) attacks on the network (September/October 2016) including:"[2] "Spurious Dragon - November 2016"[1][2][44]
2016 December 6 “Austria's Erste Bank Awards Ethereum Projects in Startup Contest” [45]
2016 December 13 “Ethereum Blockchain Gets New Look Inspired by WeChat” [46]
2016 December 20 “Ethereum Cryptocurrency Forum Suffers Data Breach” [47]
2017 February 14 “Ethereum IoT Project Wins $100k in Dubai Blockchain Hackathon” [48]
2017 February 22 “Title Deed Solution Leverages Ethereum Blockchain To Secure Top Finish In Dubai Hackathon” [49]
2017 February 27 “Business Giants to Announce Creation of a Computing System Based on Ethereum” [50]
2017 February 27 “Ethereum: JPMorgan, Microsoft, Banks Form Blockchain Alliance” [51]
2017 March 1 “Enterprise Alliance Formed By Microsoft, Intel, UBS, Secures Support of ETH Foundation” [52]
2017 March 6 “U.S. investment firm plans launch of first ever ethereum classic private fund” [53]
2017 March 16 “Bloq Launches Blockchain Lab, Joins Enterprise Ethereum” [54]
2017 March 23 “Storj to Migrate Decentralized Storage Service to Ethereum Blockchain” [55]
2017 April 25 “Fastest-Ever ICO: Ethereum-Based Gnosis Creates $300 Mln in Minutes, Raising $12 Mln” [56]
2017 April 26 “U.S. investment firm launches $10 mln ethereum classic private fund” [57]
2017 May 1 “DAO Platform WINGS’ Token Arrives on Ethereum, Sees $1m Trading on Bittrex” [58]
2017 May 18 “Streamr decentralizes US stock databases with Ethereum” [59]
2017 May 30 “OKCoin formally launches Ethereum (ETH) on the exchange” [60]
2017 June 6 Competition “Ethereum is crashing by 20% right now after confidence in bitcoin rival shaken” [61]
2017 June 21 “When a trader sold a large position in the digital currency Ethereum last Wednesday, the sale triggered a so-called “flash crash”” [62]
2017 June 24 “Ethereum's flash-crash victims are getting their money back - Business Insider” [63]
2017 July 7 “One of the Biggest Ethereum and Bitcoin Exchanges Got Hacked” [64]
2017 July 7 “Ethereum And Bitcoin Energy Consumption Surpasses Entire Countries' Power Budgets” [65]
2017 July 20 “Hackers steal $34 million in second Ethereum cryptocurrency theft this week” [66]
2017 August 1 “Marketplace Lender Blackmoon to Launch Ethereum Token Management Platform” [67]
2017 August 12 “Microsoft Goes Ethereum: $561 Bln US Company Releases Ethereum-Based Protocol ‘Coco’” [68]
2017 August 30 “Ethereum Founder Strikes Deal with Russian Development Bank – CoinDesk” [69]
2017 September 4 “Ethereum (ETH) price plunges as China's central bank declares ICOs "illegal"” [70]
2017 October Hard fork "The Byzantium fork:"[2] "Byzantium - October 2017"[1][71]
2017 November 1 “Amazon Subsidiary Registers Cryptocurrency and Ethereum Domains” [72]
2017 November 7 “A major vulnerability has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars of Ethereum” [73]
2018 January 4 “Ethereum Surpasses $1,000 For the First Time, Factors Behind Increase” [74] “Ethereum Rises Above $1,000 for the First Time as Ripple Soars” [75]
2018 February 2 Leadership “SENS Research Foundation Receives $2.4 Million Ethereum Donation From Vitalik Buterin” [76]
2018 February 5 “UNICEF Asks PC Gamers To Mine Ethereum And Donate To Syrian Children” [77]
2018 February 6 “The UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, has launched a futuristic pilot project to utilise the cryptocurrency Ethereum to raise money for Syrian children” [78]
2018 February 18 “Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin: Cryptocurrency Could Drop to Near-Zero Anytime” [79] “Cryptocurrencies ‘could drop to near-zero at any time,’ Ethereum founder warns” [80]
2018 March 28 “Refugee charity turns to crypto with $1M donation from Ethereum’s founder and OmiseGo” [81]
2018 April 24 “Hackers emptied ethereum wallets by breaking internet infrastructure” [82]
2018 April 25 “Ethereum cryptocurrency wallets raided after Amazon's internet domain service hijacked” [83] “$152,000 in Ethereum stolen in Amazon DNS server attack” [84]
2018 May 18 “Apple's Steve Wozniak Dumps Facebook And Thinks Ethereum Could Be The New Apple” [85]
2017 May 18 “Decentralized Ethereum Token Trading Goes Live With 0x Launch” [86]
2018 May 21 “500 companies unite in Enterprise Ethereum Alliance to set blockchain standard” [87]
2018 May 31 “Ethereum Overtakes Bitcoin in the Number of Active Users” [88]
2018 June 11 “Ethereum ETH has hit a new milestone as earlier today the cryptocurrency’s total supply crossed the 100 million mark: this means there is more than 100 million Ether in circulation” [89]
2018 June 14 “The SEC says Ethereum tokens are not securities” [90] “The Securities and Exchange Commission does not consider Ethereum a security, it said Wednesday” [91]
2018 July 18 “Ethereum may drive blockchain to be as broadly adopted as the Internet, fintech CEO says” [92]
2018 September 3 “Google releases tools for probing Ethereum’s blockchain” [93][94][95]
2018 September 3 “Ethereum Blockchain dataset now available in BigQuery for smart contract analytics” [96]
2018 September 18 “Ethereum technology could slice bitcoin’s market cap in half, says tech analyst” [97]
2018 October 1 “Ethereum Cofounder Invests $6.5 Million In A Former Competitor” [98]
2018 October 13 “Ethereum’s Constantinople Upgrade Stalls on Test Network” [99]
2018 October 17 “Ethereum Foundation Releases Fourth Wave of Grants” [100][101][102]
2018 December 9 “Ethereum Developers Reach New Agreement to Launch Constantinople Hard Fork in mid January” [103]
2018 December 13 “Opera for Android becomes an Ethereum 'blockchain browser'” [104]
2019 January 10 “A successful 51 percent attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain has raised some big questions around smaller cryptocurrencies using proof-of-work algorithms” [105]
2019 January 16 “New Ethereum version postponed after discovery of serious security flaw” [106]
2019 February 18 “Ethereum Core Developer Quits Over ‘Conflict of Interest’ Attacks” [107]
2019 February 18 “Ethereum Scaling Tech Monoplasma Wants to Let Dapps Broadcast Crypto” [108]
2019 February Hard fork "The Constantinople fork:"[2] "Constantinople - February 2019"[1]
2019 February Hard fork "Petersburg (unplanned) - February 2019"[1]
2019 March 1 “Ethereum Upgrade Creates a New Path for the Blockchain Platform” [109]
2019 March 13 “Abra Adds Native Support for Ethereum” [110]
2019 April 23 Adoption “French Lender Societe Generale Issues $112 Million Bond on Ethereum” [111]
2019 April 24 “Samsung Developing Own Blockchain on Ethereum” [112] “Samsung Developing Ethereum-Based Blockchain, May Issue Own Token” [113] “Samsung is Developing Ethereum-Based ”Samsung Coin”, Currently Building New Blockchain Mainnet” [114]
2019 May 22 “Ethereum Foundation Announces Details on $30 Million Network Development” [115]
2019 July 9 “Uber Subsidiary Grants Ethereum Startup Access To Entire American Fleet” [116]
2019 August 22 “Ethereum Poised to Be First Public Blockchain in Hyperledger Consortium” [117]
2019 September 16 Adoption “BitPay Launches Support for Ethereum” [118] “BitPay Now Lets Merchants Accept Ethereum’s Cryptocurrency” [119]
2019 September 24 “Ethereum expands blockchain capacity by 25%” [120]
2019 October 1 “Ethereum Scaling Project SKALE Raises $17.1 Million for Mainnet Launch” [121]
2019 October 8 Adoption “UNICEF Launches Crypto Fund, Backed by Ethereum Foundation” [122] ““The Ethereum Foundation is excited to demonstrate the power of what Ethereum and blockchain technology can do for communities around the world. Together with UNICEF, we're taking action with the Cryptofund to improve access to basic needs, rights, and resources”” [123]
2019 November 27 “UPBIT REPORTS ‘IRREGULAR WITHDRAWAL’ OF $51 MILLION IN ETHEREUM” [124]
2019 November 27 “Hackers steal $48.7M in Ethereum from South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit” [125] “Hackers Steal $49 Million in Ethereum From Upbit Exchange” [126]
2019 December 8 Hard fork "The Istanbul fork"[2] "Istanbul - December 2019"[1][127][128] “Ethereum’s Istanbul Hard Fork Is Now Live” [129]
2019 December 12 “Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith accused of helping North Korea evade sanctions” [130] “Ethereum research scientist arrested for blockchain presentation in North Korea” [131]
2019 December 27 “Ethereum Co-Founder Reportedly Sells 90k ETH To U.S. Cryptocurrency Exchange” [132]
2020 January 2 Hard fork "The Muir Glacier fork introduced a delay to the difficulty bomb. Increases in block difficulty of the proof-of-work consensus mechanism threatened to degrade the usability of Ethereum by increasing wait times for sending transactions and using dapps."[2] "Muir Glacier - January 2020"[1][133][134][135][136]
2020 June “Nearly $60M in Bitcoin Moved to Ethereum in June” [137]
2020 July Mining “Ethereum Miners’ Income Soars by 60% in a Month and Outruns Ether’s Price Jump” [138]
2020 October 14 "The staking deposit contract introduced staking to the Ethereum ecosystem. Although a mainnet contract, it had a direct impact on the timeline for launching the Beacon Chain, an important Eth2 upgrade."[2][139]
2020 October 22 “PayPal opens up to Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin – but with minimal functionality for now” [140] “PayPal to allow customers to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies” [141]
2020 November 13 “Binance launches Ethereum mining pool, with lower fees than rivals” [142] “Binance launches Ethereum Mining Pool with 0.5% fees" [143]
2020 November 23 “Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Secures Enough Funds to Launch” [144]
2020 November 17 "The Beacon Chain needed 16384 deposits of 32 staked ETH to ship securely. This happened on November 27, meaning the Beacon Chain started producing blocks on December 1, 2020. This is an important first step in achieving the Eth2 vision."[2][145]
2020 December 1 "The Beacon Chain needed 16384 deposits of 32 staked ETH to ship securely. This happened on November 27, meaning the Beacon Chain started producing blocks on December 1, 2020. This is an important first step in achieving the Eth2 vision."[146][2][145]
2020 December 1 “Against all odds, Ethereum 2.0 is finally here” [147] “Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain Goes Live as ‘World Computer’ Begins Long-Awaited Overhaul” [148]
2021 January 3 “Ethereum Cofounder Reveals ‘Underrated’ Bitcoin And Crypto Bull Case Amid Massive Price Rally” [149]
2021 February 3 “Cryptocurrency Ethereum hits record high ahead of CME futures launch” [150]
2021 February 6 “Ethereum Booms in Anticipation of CME’s ETH Futures Launch” [151]

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