What Is Ethereum and Why Is It so Popularly Used in NFTs
Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of fraud or third-party interference.
Why Ethereum?
Ethereum is often used to create digital assets, also known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These NFTs can take many different forms, but they are all unique and cannot be replicated. Common examples of NFTs include art, music, and in-game items.
Ethereum is the most popular blockchain platform for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). There are a few reasons for this.
First, Ethereum is one of the oldest and most well-known blockchain platforms. It has been around since 2015 and has a large community of developers and users. Its smart contracts allow for the creation of tamper-proof digital assets.
Second, Ethereum offers a wide range of features and capabilities that make it well suited for NFTs. For example, Ethereum’s smart contract functionality allows for the creation of unique, digital assets that can be bought, sold, or traded on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum’s decentralized nature makes it resistant to censorship.
Finally, Ethereum is relatively easy to use and has a variety of tools and resources available to help developers create and manage their NFTs. The large and active Ethereum community provides a ready market for NFTs.
So if you’re looking to create or trade NFTs, Ethereum is the perfect platform to do so.
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On Ethereum
Speaking of the smart contracts that run on Ethereum. these apps run on a custom-built blockchain, an enormously powerful shared global infrastructure that can move value around and represent the ownership of property. This enables developers to create markets, store registries of debts or promises, move funds in accordance with instructions given long in the past (like a will or a futures contract), and many other things that have not been invented yet, all without a middleman or counterparty risk.
The project was bootstrapped via an ether presale in August 2014 by fans all around the world. It is developed by the Ethereum Foundation, a Swiss non-profit, with contributions from great minds across the globe.
A Bit More On Ethereum
Ethereum is not just a platform but also a programming language (Turing complete) running on a blockchain that helps developers to build and publish distributed applications. The goal of Ethereum is to create an alternative protocol for building decentralized applications, providing a different set of tradeoffs that we believe will be very useful for a large class of decentralized applications, with particular emphasis on situations where security, trustlessness, and decentralization are important.
Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralized, secure, and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of the most kind, and intellectual property.
Ethereum’s smart contracts are based on different computer languages, which developers use to program their own functionalities. Smart contracts are high-level programming abstractions that are compiled down to EVM bytecode and deployed to the Ethereum blockchain for execution. They can be written in Solidity (a language library with similarities to C and JavaScript), Serpent (similar to Python, but deprecated), LLL (a low-level Lisp-like language), and Mutan (Go-based, but deprecated). There is also a research-oriented language under development called Vyper (a strongly-typed Python-derived decidable language).
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