Blockchain Major Events Timeline

Chronological list of the most important milestone events and key moments in blockchain development history

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2008.10.31: Bitcoin whitepaper published
2009.1.12: First Bitcoin transaction
2010.5.22: Bitcoin Pizza Day
2011-2013: Silk Road darknet marketplace operation
2013.11: Ethereum whitepaper published
2014.2: Mt.Gox exchange collapse
2015.7.30: Ethereum mainnet launch
2015.11: ERC-20 standard proposed
2016: Lightning Network whitepaper published
2016.6: The DAO attack incident, leading to Ethereum hard fork
2017: 2017 ICO boom
2017.9: China comprehensively bans ICOs and cryptocurrency exchanges
2018: Cryptocurrency winter begins
2019.6: Facebook Libra project announced
2020 Summer: DeFi Summer explosion
2021: NFT boom, CryptoPunks and BAYC rise to fame
2021-2023: Layer 2 solutions (Arbitrum, Optimism) mature
2022.5: Terra/Luna collapse
2022.11: FTX exchange collapse
2024.1: US approves spot Bitcoin ETF