# Ethereum - The complete guide from ethereum.org > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [132]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Web page), 2015 (year of the work, not of publication), https://ethereum.org/. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015), before the law step (Mattereum, 2017). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): The ledger he helped launch; context for the contracting layer. - Career works it belongs to: - Ethereum launch (2015): Release coordinator for the July 2015 launch of Ethereum, the programmable blockchain. - ConsenSys (2015): Strategic architect at ConsenSys after the Ethereum launch. (suggested by machine) - Programmable Blockchains in Context (2015): The launch explainer for Ethereum: where programmable blockchains sit in the line from databases to the web. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... - Topics: Ethereum — launch, release process & programmable blockchains (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: stablecoins (1 here; 26 sources in all, earliest dated 2015); DeFi (1 here; 31 sources in all, earliest dated 2015); contracts (1 here; 147 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): DeFi; stablecoins - Importance: core-text score 0.13 (1.00 is the top), number 445 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [113] [The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md): same career work: Ethereum launch - [164] [Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s Future –... (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/164.md): same career work: Ethereum launch - On the same works, just before: [742] [Vinay Gupta - Bitcoin Will Die | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/742.md); [746] [Bitcoin Future - Vinay Gupta | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/746.md); [311] [Vinay Gupta - Proof of Work / IAmSatoshi (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/311.md) - On the same works, just after: [309] [Testing "Ethereum for Web Developers" with a few friends (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/309.md); [308] [financial services club 27 January 2015 - What is Money?... (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/308.md); [303] [How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Ethereum - The complete guide from ethereum.org, document, 2015, https://ethereum.org/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [132], https://guptaoption.com/texts/132.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://ethereum.org/) Ethereum The internet that belongs to you Ethereum is the global network where you control your assets, your data, and your identity. Start here Ask AI Never offline 100% uptime 10 years Since 2015 Proven track record Built to last Ethereum has run continuously since 2015 without a single second of downtime. The code is open for anyone to verify. No company runs it, no one can shut it down, and thousands of independent operators keep it going worldwide. Get ETH What makes Ethereum different Principles that set Ethereum apart from traditional systems Direct ownership Your bank balance is a custody promise . Your Ethereum balance is true ownership. $4.6B+ Daily trading volume (USD) Public rules The code is public, agreements execute exactly as written. Think vending machine versus hoping the cashier gives correct change. Global Anyone, anywhere can use Ethereum. No permission needed. Free access No credit check, no minimum balance, no account approval. If you have internet, you're in. Nobody owns Ethereum Changes happen through open proposals that anyone can participate in. Think community garden versus corporate farm. What is Ethereum? Latest Ethereum updates EF Urges Contract Checks Before Glamsterdam ETH Daily The Ethereum Foundation urges developers to check contracts against gas changes in Glamsterdam after 13 mainnet examples surfaced. The roundup also covers a Gnosis Pay data breach, Aave’s Avon... Newsletters Nov 6, 2026 (opens in a new tab) EIP-8037/EIP-8038 Glamsterdam Ethereum Foundation Glamsterdam, the next update for Ethereum, is currently being tested on testnets. During these tests Chainsecurity has found a few projects that would be vulnerable after Glamsterdam since they rely... Foundation Nov 6, 2026 (opens in a new tab) Ethereal news weekly #46 Ethereal Post quantum & post AI transition targeting December 2028, Amundi tokenized equity index fund, Solar v0.3 & Slang alpha Solidity compilers Newsletters Nov 6, 2026 (opens in a new tab) View more Get started on Ethereum Takes 2 minutes to get started. No credit check, no paperwork, no minimum balance. Understand Ethereum Start here. Learn what it is, why it matters, and how it works in plain language. What is Ethereum? How do wallets work? DeFi, stablecoins, and NFTs explained Start learning Start building For developers. Access documentation, tools, and tutorials to build on Ethereum. Developer documentation Smart contract tutorials Development tools & frameworks View materials For enterprise Business use cases, institutional resources, and how Ethereum can serve your organization. Enterprise use cases Private & permissioned networks Institutional resources Explore enterprise --- End of [132] Ethereum - The complete guide from ethereum.org. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [309](https://guptaoption.com/texts/309.md) Testing "Ethereum for Web Developers" with a few friends (2015); the most closely related, [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md) The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.