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Ethereum

Ethereum is a public blockchain and programmable platform for smart contracts.

Sources: [1][2]
TYPE blockchainNATIVE ASSET ether (ETH)LAST VERIFIED

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01 / THE RECORD

What we can say,
and why.

01

Ethereum is a public blockchain and programmable platform where smart contracts can run.

Sources: [1][2]
02

Ether (ETH) is Ethereum's native asset. Gas fees for transactions and smart contract execution are paid in ETH.

Sources: [2][4]
03

Ethereum uses proof-of-stake consensus. Validators stake ETH and participate in proposing and checking blocks.

Sources: [3]
04

ETH is native to Ethereum; wrapped ether (WETH) is an ERC-20 representation of ETH used by applications that expect tokens.

Sources: [5]

02 / USE THIS RECORD

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03 / PROVENANCE

Sources you can check.

These official Ethereum documentation pages supported the claims above when this record was verified on .

  1. [1]What is Ethereum? ethereum.org
  2. [2]Technical intro to Ethereum ethereum.org
  3. [3]Proof-of-stake ethereum.org
  4. [4]Gas and fees ethereum.org
  5. [5]What is Wrapped Ether? ethereum.org