最新报道：According to CoinWorld, ConsenSys and Ethereum founder Joe Lubin rang the closing bell at the Nasdaq exchange in New York City on Wednesday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his latest venture, Sharplink Gaming (SBET), and Ethereum itself. Sharplink is one of a number of so-called Ethereum treasuries established in recent months amid a surge in corporate interest in cryptocurrencies. The company's strategic management of Ethereum (ETH) is overseen by a handful of ConsenSys employees. Given that ETH has gained nearly 1.2 billion percent since its initial coin offering in 2014, it's hard to understand why companies wouldn't be interested. The asset, now a currency that powers the most widely used blockchain, the so-called "world computer," is beginning to deliver on its original promise a decade later. "Ethereum today is far beyond what I ever thought it could be, and we've barely scratched the surface of all the use cases I could imagine," Paul Brody, EY's blockchain lead, told The Block. "The future of Ethereum is ever-expanding, as it will become not only the infrastructure for finance, but ultimately the infrastructure for all commerce." The world's second-largest blockchain began in 2013, when young cypherpunk Vitalik Buterin proposed a platform similar to Bitcoin that could run applications. If Bitcoin sought to make money itself decentralized and censorship-resistant, why not make anything online the same? Fileverse founder Andreas told The Block, "Ten years ago, Ethereum was a revolutionary idea. Today, it's the common denominator for many revolutions on the internet." Soon after, Buterin published a white paper outlining his vision in 2013. Then, in 2014, he launched a crowdfunding campaign, the second-largest Kickstarter campaign at the time, to fund early development. Before anyone knew it, Ethereum had taken off. Ten years after its official launch on July 30, 2015, some of Ethereum’s biggest supporters are still surprised it happened at all. “I don’t think you could launch Ethereum today,” says Bill Hughes, senior advisor and head of global regulatory affairs at Consensys. “It would have required a specific timeframe, the right idealistic volunteers, and a commitment to exploring completely uncharted intersections between computer science, economics, and psychology. We did have a brief window to give decentralized software and processing infrastructure a chance, and the fact that it worked is, in a sense, a miracle.” Part of the problem is simply Ethereum’s many trials and tribulations, after which many critics—and even supporters—often declare the network dead. Of course, there was the DAO hack, the foundation for the controversial network rollback to recover millions in stolen ETH. But there were also regulatory hurdles, growing competition, and an incredibly challenging upgrade process, sometimes likened to changing an airplane’s engine mid-flight. “Despite everyone calling it dead multiple times over the years and the sometimes very legitimate struggles it faced, we’re now in a position where we’re clearly becoming the backbone of the next global financial system,” said Azeem Khan, founder of Miden. “The most incredible thing about Ethereum is that it refuses to die. It can’t,” said Zak Cole, an early Ethereum supporter and co-founder of 0xbow. “Against all odds, through forks, failures, regulatory attacks, and civil wars, it has become the foundation of the future of finance. No one predicted the DAO hack, the summer of DeFi, or the NFT explosion. We just lived through it all.” There’s also the long-term issue of network costs – during the 2017 bull run, when Ethereum launched a million ICOs, the network became a victim of its own success, with gas fees effectively making it unusable. This set Ethereum on a path to scalability, a goal now being achieved through a series of Layer 2 and mainnet improvements. "Ten years on, it's been a decade of zero downtime, overcoming insurmountable odds, and punctuated by unimaginable victories," said Kraken's Joseph Delong (creator of Sushi). Aleph, a pseudonymous developer and advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, echoed this sentiment, noting that Ethereum has consistently been able to "safely update and upgrade its technology stack while remaining true to the project's purpose." She added, "Looking ahead, there are a multitude of changes and upgrades in the works that could fundamentally alter Ethereum's technology again, making it more accessible, usable, and performant, but again, without compromising its core values." Even those more critical of Ethereum, such as Jito Foundation contributor Andrew Thurman, point out that Ethereum has remained true to its values of global accessibility and permissionlessness. "Ethereum's greatest contribution to the ecosystem—and one that easily surpasses Bitcoin—is its ability to attract, cultivate, and empower an ever-growing community of developers and contributors," said Thurman. Now, as Ethereum continues to grow and change, and as American businesses begin to adopt it, the network and community will face a new set of challenges.Paul Dylan-Ennis, a lecturer at University College Dublin, said: “The most important question for Ethereum over the next decade is whether it can maintain its identity, especially its cypherpunk values, as more and more stakeholders try to dilute it.