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Ethereum Classic

Ethereum Classic is a community building and supporting Ethereum technologies and protocols. Ethereum Classic's origin relative to the Ethereum Foundation came as a rejection the EF DAO bailout in June 2016. Since then, Ethereum Classic has grown into it's own, forging paths in some ways parallel and in others divergent from it's hard-forked younger brother.

Etherum Classic's exchange ticker is ETC.

Ethereum Classic's core development team is ETCDEV, working alongside an immensely generous and capable community, to build and maintain a wide variety of projects.

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Status

Homestead

Version 1.0 of Ethereum aka Frontier was released on July 30th 2015! Development continues towards the versions named Homestead, Metropolis and Serenity (v1.1). Frontier is aimed at exchangers and miners. Homestead is aiming for Ðapps developers, while Metropolis is aiming for end users with the release of the Mist browser. Serenity is meant to move from consensus through Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake.

Getting started

To get the basic concepts of Ethereum visit the Ethereum homepage over at http://ethereum.org. If you want to get a deeper understanding, start by read the whitepaper and the design rationale. For a more formal review, read the yellow paper. See the development tutorial for quick start to developing smart contracts.

Don't get lost

Check the Glossary and our FAQ. There are separate wikis for information relevant to the C++ and Go implementations (Python and Javascript coming soon),

Downloads

Bleeding edge code can be cloned from the develop branch of their git repositories:

• https://github.com/ethereumproject/cpp-ethereum
• https://github.com/ethereumproject/go-ethereum
• https://github.com/ethereumproject/pyethapp

To see the state of the latest Ethereum builds, see the build server.