Hello World!
welcome to the new ethereum.org.
This is the beginning of the ethereum.org relaunch, not the end. As explained in more detail below, the new website is intentionally a work in progress. It is being launched as an experiment, meant to grow and iterate in public as the community improves it, much like Ethereum.
three fundamental principles
As we move towards a relaunch of ethereum.orgWe have been guided by three fundamental principles:
one. Ethereum.org is a portal for resources created by the community
One of Ethereum’s biggest strengths is its huge decentralized community. In recent years, the community has worked to create invaluable resources: documentation, wikis, newsletters, tutorials, discussion forums, and more.
The purpose of Ethereum.org is to be a portal to those resources, not a substitute for them. Ethereum.org will prioritize links to community-created content, rather than hosting native content on each topic. Through community contributions, the website will evolve over time to always display the best relevant Ethereum material.
2. Built outdoors, with the help of the community
Ethereum.org is being relaunched as an MVP, and the design intentionally evokes a simple blank slate. We want your help to update and improve it over time: check out the contributor guide or list of open problems if you want to start
Right now, there are only four subpages, (beginners, Use, LearnY Build) but we anticipate adding new ones over time. We also hope to solicit submissions from the community to redesign entire subpages. Stay tuned for details on how to participate.
The dominant feature of the landing page is a large “HERO” style image, and the current one is only temporary. We plan to change it regularly as we receive submissions from the community, rotating the art over time. If you are interested in submitting a new HERO image design, please contact us at [email protected].
Want to learn more? Head over to Github and read the contributor guide.
3. Not your typical product website
Ethereum is the largest open source blockchain community in the world. Core technology development is distributed among many different organizations, and the network is used live in production to secure billions of dollars in digital assets and other valuable estate. Ethereum is the most technically mature and widely used programmable blockchain in the world.
Ethereum is different, and ethereum.org should be different too. It will never be a typical product website, because it is not trying to sell you something. This is a website for a community that is busy doing things: onboarding new developers and users, educating ourselves and others, and building.
Thanks!
If you’ve been on Ethereum for a while, you know that ethereum.org has been in need of an upgrade for a long time.
But that delay has had a silver lining: The Ethereum community took responsibility for creating and maintaining documentation, community learning resources, and educational material, all while onboarding new users and developers. If you played any role in those efforts over the years: thank you.
We hope that the relaunch of ethereum.org as an open source community portal will continue that important trend. Ultimately, there is no better way to represent Ethereum to the world than by maintaining that spirit of decentralization and independence.
