Introduction to Ethereum

Ethereum starts where Bitcoin stops. Bitcoin proved that digital money can live on a public network with no central issuer; Ethereum extended that idea into a platform where developers can publish logic, not just payments.

ETH is the network's native asset. You use it to pay gas, post economic weight through staking, and settle value inside applications that share the same chain state.

This course zooms in on how Ethereum actually works: its state machine, transaction lifecycle, fee market, validator model, and why so much of Web3 still anchors to Ethereum even when activity happens on L2s.