Ethereum is an open, public blockchain platform for smart contracts and decentralized applications, with its Twitter account maintained by the Ethereum Foundation. It was co-founded by Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, Joseph Lubin, Jeffrey Wilcke, Mihai Alisie, Anthony Di Lorio, Amir Chetrit, and Charles Hoskinson, and launched on July 30, 2015. Ethereum's Twitter Score is 977 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing it among the 36 accounts tracked on this platform to score above 900.
Ethereum conducted a public crowdfunding in July and August 2014 that raised 31,000 BTC, worth about $18 million at the time, in exchange for Ether (ETH), the platform's native cryptocurrency for transaction fees and network staking. It has no CEO, board, or single controlling party, operating through a decentralized global community of developers, node operators, validators, and users. In 2016, a smart contract exploit drained over 3.6 million ETH from The DAO, triggering a hard fork; a dissenting group continued the original chain as Ethereum Classic. On September 15, 2022, The Merge completed the transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, reducing energy consumption by roughly 99.95%. Among the founding team, Gavin Wood developed the Solidity programming language and authored the Ethereum Yellow Paper defining the Ethereum Virtual Machine; Jeffrey Wilcke created Geth, the primary execution client; and Joseph Lubin later founded ConsenSys, which builds Ethereum-based infrastructure including MetaMask and Infura.
Ethereum has continued to evolve through major protocol upgrades. The Pectra upgrade, live on May 7, 2025, introduced EIP-7702 for EOA smart-wallet functionality alongside staking improvements. The Fusaka upgrade, live on December 3, 2025, added PeerDAS for more efficient rollup data availability and raised the default gas limit to roughly 60 million. The Ethereum Foundation published its mandate on March 13, 2026, enshrining censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security as non-negotiable priorities, and on June 23, 2026 announced a reorganization that reduced its staff by 54 colleagues, approximately 20% of the foundation. The broader ecosystem includes Layer 2 networks such as Optimism, Arbitrum, ZKSync, and Base, which process millions of transactions on top of the network.
Ethereum ranks #25 (top 0.1%) out of 389,201 accounts tracked on this platform, with 4,350,853 followers as of July 2026 and 6,166 posts published. Ethereum has been mentioned by 6,401 accounts, with 37,740 total mentions recorded.
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Ethereum draws a broad range of notable followers from across the crypto and technology space. The accounts that follow Ethereum include 3,371 founders, 644 angel investors, 2,067 influencers and 329 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Erik Voorhees, Marc Andreessen, Laura Shin and jesse.base.eth.