Russian-Canadian programmer and writer primarily known as a co-founder of Ethereum.
Vitaly Dmitriyevich “Vitalik” Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer primarily known as a co-founder of Ethereum and as a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine.
Buterin was born in Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia. He lived in the area until the age of six when his parents emigrated to Canada. Buterin attended the Abelard School, a private high school in Toronto, for four years.
Buterin learned about Bitcoin, from his father, at age 17. In 2012, he obtained a bronze medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics. In 2013, he visited developers in other countries who shared his enthusiasm for code. He returned to Toronto later that year and published a white paper proposing Ethereum. He attended the University of Waterloo but dropped out in 2014, when he received the Thiel Fellowship in the amount of $100,000, and went to work on Ethereum full-time.
Buterin is a co-creator and inventor of Ethereum, firstly describing it in a white paper in late 2013.
Ethereum Foundation
Jan 31st, 1994
Russian-Canadian
University of Basel, Doctorate from the Faculty of Business and Economics - 30 November 2018
Ethereum - Co-Founder
OmiseGo - Advisor
Bitcoin Magazine - Co-Founder
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin introduced a strategy to reduce node computation requirements to “near zero” using ZK-EVMs at the Devconnect Opening Ceremony.
Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation have introduced the Trustless Manifesto to reinforce the core values of decentralization and censorship resistance.
Zama recently announced the acquisition of KKRT Labs, also known as Kakarot and backed by ETH creator Vitalik Buterin.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has introduced GKR, which he described as a family of protocols for fast proving.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has endorsed Coinbase’s Base Layer-2 as a secure, non-custodial extension of Ethereum.