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Welcome to the Ethereum Wiki

This is the community-maintained wiki covering all sorts of information on the next-generation peer-to-peer technology platform build by ÐΞV including Ethereum, the generalized blockchain for smart contract development, and Whisper, the private low-level datagram communication platform.

Users signed in with GitHub can edit and add pages using the browser or locally.

Status

Frontier

Version 1.0 of Ethereum aka Frontier was released on July 30th 2015! Development continues towards the versions named Homestead, Metropolis and Serenity (v1.1). Frontier is aimed at exchangers and miners. Homestead is aiming for Ðapps developers, while Metropolis is aiming for end users with the release of the Mist browser. Serenity is meant to move from consensus through Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake.

Getting started

To get the basic concepts of Ethereum visit the Ethereum homepage over at https://ethereum.org. If you want to get a deeper understanding, start by read the whitepaper and the design rationale. For a more formal review, read the yellow paper. See the development tutorial for quick start to developing smart contracts.

Don't get lost

Check the Glossary and our FAQ. There are separate wikis for information relevant to the C++ and Go implementations (Python and Javascript coming soon),

Downloads

Bleeding edge code can be cloned from the develop branch of their git repositories:

• https://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum
• https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
• https://github.com/ethereum/pyethapp To see the state of the latest Ethereum builds, see the build server.