Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum. At the age of 19, in 2013, he published the Ethereum white paper, proposing a decentralized blockchain platform for building applications using smart contracts. In 2014, Buterin and the Ethereum team raised over $18 million in a crowdsale to fund the development of the Ethereum network, which went live in 2015. Now Buterin remains heavily involved in Ethereum and the Layer 2 ecosystem. Known for his vision of decentralized technologies, he has donated significant amounts to charitable
