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Launch · Jul 30, 2015

Frontier mainnet launch

The first live version of Ethereum goes online.

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Frontier, the first release of the Ethereum network, went live on July 30, 2015. It was aimed at developers and came with warnings that it was experimental. Miners could start earning ether and developers could deploy smart contracts.

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