# Ethereum turns 5 🎂

DevFeed: [Ethereum turns 5 🎂](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ethereum-turns-5-16916.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/07/30/ethereum-turns-5>)

Author: Ethereum Foundation

Published: 2020-07-30T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>)

Tags: [anniversary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anniversary.md>), [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecosystem.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [genesis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/genesis.md>), [genesis-block](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/genesis-block.md>), [launch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/launch.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>)

## AI overview

The Ethereum Foundation reflects on Ethereum's fifth anniversary, noting the network's growth from its genesis block and official launch to a broad ecosystem of users, applications, contracts, and protocol innovations.

## Source excerpt

Five years ago today, Ethereum's genesis block marked the official network launch. Today, most members of the community spend their time thinking about all of the work that's left to be done, but it's also important to recognize on this fifth anniversary of Ethereum's launch just how unbelievably far...