Early Days of Ethereum

Preserving the history and stories of the people who built Ethereum.

A visual grid of the people who contributed to the early days of Ethereum, from co-founders to developers, advisors, and community builders.

194 people

Whitepaper to "Red Wedding"

November 2013 to June 2014

Ethereum co-Founder
Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum co-Founder
Amir Chetrit
Ethereum's first
Anthony D'Onofrio
Ethereum co-Founder
Anthony Di Iorio
Ethereum co-Founder
Charles Hoskinson
Ethereum co-Founder
Gavin Wood
Ethereum co-Founder
Jeff Wilcke
Executive Assistant to Charles Hoskinson
Jeremy Wood
Developer
Max Kaye
Ethereum co-Founder
Mihai Alisie
Early founding member
Nancy Wu
Built the earliest websites
Ryan Taylor
Ethereum Foundation co-Founder
Taylor Gerring
C++ / P2P Network Developer
Alex Leverington
Chinese strategy and translations (https://www.8bt6c.com/ethereum)
Bin Lu
Strategic Partner (Open Transactions)
Chris Odom
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Daniel Hams
Dino Mark
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Emanuele Costa
Software Architect, MinGW32 cross-compilation of cpp-ethereum
Eric Lombrozo
Accounting
Hai Nguyen
Administration
Jason Colby
Chinese strategy and translations (https://www.8bt6c.com/ethereum)
Jerry Liu
Ethereum co-Founder, CEO and Founder, ConsenSys
Joe Lubin
Education and outreach
Jonathan Mohan
Media (CoinTalk)
Kyle Kurbegovich
Just some guy who happened to be at the Miami house.  Not a team member.
Louis Parker
Business Dev
Mathias Grønnebæk
Matthew Wampler-Doty
Language Development, Software Development
Paul Snow
Administration
Roxana Sureanu
Communications
Stephan Tual
Developer (KryptoKit)
Steve Dakh
Steven Nerayoff
Wendell Davis
Researcher and Regulatory Compliance Expert. Head of European Finance and Operations
Aeron Buchanan
Joseph Chow
Continuous integration (CI)
Marko Simovic
Cryptography advisor
Neal Koblitz
Development
Nicolas Fierro
Project Ðouglas.  Co-founder, Eris Industries
Preston Byrne
Swarm
Viktor Trón
Administration
Ethan Wilding
Development/Chinese Partner
Houwu Chen
Jarrad Hope
Continuous integration (CI), EtherCasts with Joel Dietz, building dapps
Joris Bontje
Haskell client developer, Co-Founder of BlockApps
Kieren James-Lubin
Python client developer
Konrad Feldmeier
Carpenter at The Spaceship
Lorenzo Patuzzo
Development
Maran Hidskes
Roman Mandeleil
Stuart Hoegner
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Tim Hughes
Matt Liston
Vlad Zamfir
Legal
Addison Cameron-Huff
Brian Fabian Crain
Research
Karl Gluck
Senior Web Developer
Marian Oancea
Core Developer
Martin Becze
Cryptography advisor
Ralph Merkle
Konstantin Kudryavtsev

Stiftung Ethereum and ETHDEV

July 2014 to February 2015

George Hallam
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Roland Wilder
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Sarah O'Neill
Software engineer, C++ team and VM
Artur Zawłocki
Christoph Jentzsch
Designer, Mist
Alex van de Sande
Christian Reitwießner
Swarm
Daniel Nagy
Felix Lange
Florian Glatz
Marek Kotewicz
Continuous integration (CI)
Vincent G
Alistair Stewart
Arkadiy Paronyan
Hub Manager, Berlin
Christian Vömel
PR/Marketing lead
Freya Stevens
Henning Diedrich
Jutta Steiner
Ken Kappler
Lefteris Karapetsas
Software engineer, C++ team and VM
Paweł Bylica
Piotrek Janiuk
Sven Ehlert
Release Coordinator
Vinay Gupta
Mix and Remix
Yann Levreau
Dimitry Khokhlov
ERC-20, Mist and web3.js
Fabian Vogelsteller
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Liana Husikyan
CTO, Gnosis
Stefan George

The Interregnum

March 2015 to June 2015

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Frithjof Weinert
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Kelley Becker
Geth core developer
Zsolt Felföldi
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Bas van Kervel
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Jannik Luhn
Geth Team Lead
Péter Szilágyi
Board member
Lars Klawitter
Board member
Vadim Levitin
Board member
Wayne Hennessy-Barrett

The Ming Dynasty

July 2015 to January 2018

Executive Director
Ming Chan
General Counsel
Tung Chan
Advisor
William Mougayar
ETHÐΞV intern
Jacob Czepluch
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Ulrich Petri
Advisor
Stefano Bartolo
Advisor
Bernd Lapp
Advisor
Yessin Schiegg
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Alex 'axic' Beregszaszi
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Lisa Cheng
Core Developer (C++) and initiated the Early Days of Ethereum project.
Bob Summerwill
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David Ben Kay
Core Developer (C++ and EVM)
Greg Colvin
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Thomas Greco
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Everton Fraga
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Luca Zeug
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Ramesh Nair
Advisor
Vladislav Martynov
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Hudson Jameson
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Jamie Pitts
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Nick Johnson
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Lilit Penrod
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Martin Holst Swende
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Yoichi Hirai
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Patrick Storchenegger
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Virgil Griffith
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Andrei Maiboroda
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John Frazer
Lead Developer, Mist
Victor Maia
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J Mohamed Zahoor
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Jason Carver
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Piper Merriam
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Matthew di Ferrante
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Nicholas Lin
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Jon Choi
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Karl Floersch
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Marc Garreau
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Catherine Bühler-Todd
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Ryan Ghods

The Infinite Garden

February 2018 onwards

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Albert Ni
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Aya Miyaguchi

Other

Undated

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Aaron Davis
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Aaron Wright
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Adam B. Levine
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Alexander Grossman
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Amir Taaki
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Andreas Antonopoulos
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Andreas Lubbe
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Andrew Keys
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Anton Nashatyrev
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Aron Fisher
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Cameron Gray
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Camilo Russo
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Chelsea Palmer
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Christian Lundkvist
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Dan Finlay
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David Johnston
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Dmitry Buterin
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Freddie Heartline
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Gustav Simonssen
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Herbert Sterchi
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Iuri Matias
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James Hormuzdiar
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Jan Xie
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Joel Dietz
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Johann Gevers
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John Gerryts
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Jonathan James Harrison
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Juan Benet
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Julian Zawistowski
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Ksenya S
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Laura Shin
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Louis Chang
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Matthew Leising
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Michael Perklin
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Mikhail Kalinin
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Natalia Ameline
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Nick Savers
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Nick Szabo
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Nikolai Mushegian
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Nora
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Paul Paschos
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Peter-Jan Celis
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Piotr Dobaczewski
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Piotr Zieliński
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R. Tyler Smith
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Richard Goldglass
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Simon de la Rouviere
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Steve Gibson
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Steve Hsu
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Toya Budunguud
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Victor Wong
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Vlad Gluhovsky
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Yanislav Malahov

About this collection: These photos represent the diverse group of individuals who contributed to Ethereum's early development, from 2013 through 2018. Each person played a unique role in bringing the vision of a decentralized world computer to life.

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