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.

203 people

Whitepaper to "Red Wedding"

November 2013 to June 2014

Ethereum co-Founder
Vitalik Buterin
Amir Chetrit
Ethereum's first
Anthony D'Onofrio
Ethereum co-Founder, Bitcoin Decentral founder
Anthony Di Iorio
Ethereum co-founder and short-lived CEO
Charles Hoskinson
Ethereum co-founder, Yellow Paper author, creator of Solidity
Gavin Wood
Ethereum co-founder, creator of Go-Ethereum (Geth) and Mutan
Jeff Wilcke
Executive Assistant to Charles Hoskinson, IOHK co-founder
Jeremy Wood
Early Ethereum developer and Cryptonet creator
Max Kaye
Author of the first tweet about Ethereum
Michael Parenti
Ethereum co-founder, Bitcoin Magazine co-founder, coined
Mihai Alisie
Early founding member
Nancy Wu
Built the earliest websites
Ryan Taylor
Ethereum Foundation co-Founder
Taylor Gerring
C++ developer, devp2p architect, first ETHDEV Berlin hire
Alex Leverington
Chinese strategy and translations (https://www.8bt6c.com/ethereum)
Bin Lu
Strategic Partner (Open Transactions)
Chris Odom
Dino Mark
?
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
Business Dev
Mathias Grønnebæk
Matthew Wampler-Doty
Language Development, Software Development
Paul Snow
Administration
Roxana Sureanu
CCO, London meetup founder, Slock.it co-founder
Stephan Tual
Developer (KryptoKit)
Steve Dakh
Steven Nerayoff
Ethash
Tim Hughes
Wendell Davis
Researcher and Regulatory Compliance Expert. Head of European Finance and Operations
Aeron Buchanan
Joseph Chow
Development
Maran Hidskes
?
Marko Simovic
Cryptography advisor
Neal Koblitz
Development
Nicolas Fierro
Project Ðouglas.  Co-founder, Eris Industries
Preston Byrne
Swarm founder and Ethereum Foundation early employee
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
Roman Mandeleil
Stuart Hoegner
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
?
Roland Wilder
?
Sarah O'Neill
Software engineer, C++ team and VM
Artur Zawłocki
EVM test infrastructure architect and The DAO co-founder
Christoph Jentzsch
Co-Founder of BlockApps, Haskell client developer
James Hormuzdiar
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
Mix and Remix
Liana Husikyan
CTO, Gnosis
Stefan George
Co-Founder of BlockApps, Haskell client developer
Victor Wong

The Interregnum

March 2015 to June 2015

CFO, ETHÐΞV
Frithjof Weinert
COO, ETHÐΞV
Kelley Becker
Geth core developer
Zsolt Felföldi
Core Developer (Geth)
Bas van Kervel
Python developer - intern at Ethereum ÐΞV UG
Jannik Luhn
Geth Team Lead
Péter Szilágyi
Whisper protocol developer
Vlad Gluhovsky
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
ETHDEV intern and Copenhagen Ethereum Meetup founder
Jacob Czepluch
Python developer
Ulrich Petri
Advisor
Stefano Bartolo
Advisor
Bernd Lapp
Advisor
Yessin Schiegg
Lead of Ewasm and Co-Lead of Solidity.  Research Lead at Team Ipsilon
Alex 'axic' Beregszaszi
Communications
Lisa Cheng
Core Developer (C++) and creator of the Early Days of Ethereum project
Bob Summerwill
Advisor
David Ben Kay
Core Developer (C++ and EVM)
Greg Colvin
Parity Technologies, Thiel Fellow 2018
Robert Habermeier
Advisor
Thomas Greco
Mist team member
Everton Fraga
Mist team member
Luca Zeug
Mist
Ramesh Nair
Advisor
Vladislav Martynov
OrgSec Lead, Network Upgrade Management/Comms, Chief Cat Herder, DevOps Lead
Hudson Jameson
Jamie Pitts
Core Developer (Geth) and Ethereum Name Service (ENS)
Nick Johnson
Volunteer at DEVCON2 and DEVCON3
Lilit Penrod
Geth maintainer and security guy
Martin Holst Swende
EIPs Editor
Yoichi Hirai
Board member
Patrick Storchenegger
Research Scientist and Special Projects
Virgil Griffith
Software Engineer and Researcher
Andrei Maiboroda
External Relations Lead
John Frazer
Lead Developer, Mist
Victor Maia
Swarm
J Mohamed Zahoor
Python & Rust Core Developer
Jason Carver
Piper Merriam
Security Engineer
Matthew di Ferrante
Nicholas Lin
Jon Choi
Research
Karl Floersch
Mist, Grid, Python, Protocol support
Marc Garreau
Executive Assistant to Ethereum Foundation board
Catherine Bühler-Todd
Geth core developer
Guillaume Ballet
ethereumjs and Mist
Ryan Ghods

The Infinite Garden

February 2018 to February 2025

Undefined
Albert Ni
Executive Director and later President, Ethereum Foundation
Aya Miyaguchi

Wartime CEO?

March 2025 onwards

co-Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation
Hsiao-Wei Wang
co-Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation
Tomasz K. Stańczak

Other

Undated

MetaMask Co-Founder
Aaron Davis
Aaron Wright
Adam B. Levine
?
Alexander Grossman
Amir Taaki
Andreas Antonopoulos
Andreas Lubbe
Andrew Keys
Digix co-Founder. First tx on mainnet.
Anthony Eufemio
Anton Nashatyrev
Swarm
Aron Fisher
Cameron Gray
Author of The Infinite Machine
Camila Russo
Chelsea Palmer
Transactive Grid.  Identity and uPort.  Worked at ConsenSys.
Christian Lundkvist
Cody Wilson
MetaMask Co-Founder
Dan Finlay
Bitangels co-founder and angel investor in many Bitcoin and broader blockchain projects.
David Johnston
Vitalik's father, Co-Founder of BlockGeeks
Dmitry Buterin
Freddie Heartline
Chief Scientist, [Bitcoin Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Foundation)
Gavin Andresen
Griff Green
Gustav Simonssen
Swiss local who helped with the setup of the Ethereum Foundation
Herbert Sterchi
Iuri Matias
Founder, Colony
Jack du Rose
Jan Xie
?
Jeremy Millar
Meetup organizer, EtherCasts with Joris Bontje, his own Swarm project (not ethswarm)
Joel Dietz
Co-Founder, Monetas and founder of
Johann Gevers
John Gerryts
Introduced Gavin Wood to Ethereum
Jonathan James Harrison
Juan Benet
Julian Zawistowski
?
Ksenya S
Author of The Cryptopians
Laura Shin
Louis Chang
Author of Out of The Ether
Matthew Leising
Michael Perklin
Mikhail Kalinin
Vitalik's mother, Co-Founder of CryptoChicks, Metis Foundation
Natalia Ameline
Continuous integration (CI)
Nick Savers
Nick Szabo
MakerDAO
Nikolai Mushegian
?
Nora
Paul Paschos
Bitcoin core developer
Peter Todd
BHP Billiton and FreeMyVunk
R. Tyler Smith
Richard Goldglass
Ethereum Foundation
Sean O'Connor
Early tokenization advocate.  Worked at ConsenSys.
Simon de la Rouviere
Co-host of Let's Talk Bitcoin! with Adam B. Levine and Andreas Antonopoulos
Stephanie Murphy
Steve Gibson
AI Founder, Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
Steve Hsu
Toya Budunguud
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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