11 years ago today, @ethereum went live. It did not look inevitable. It was unfinished, difficult to explain, and even harder to use. Its central idea was almost impossibly ambitious: a world computer, open to anyone and controlled by no single entity, where strangers could make and keep commitments without asking a company, bank, or government to stand between them. Then people started building. They experimented, argued over what Ethereum should become, broke things, fixed them, forked the network, upgraded it, and kept showing up through hacks and bear markets. Slowly, the experiment became something people could actually use. Through ICOs, founders raised money from people across the world. DeFi opened new ways to borrow, lend, and trade. NFTs gave artists and communities a new medium. Stablecoins allowed value to move across borders and around the clock. People who had never met could pool resources around a shared goal. Ethereum changed along the way. Proof of work became proof of stake. A single execution layer grew into an ecosystem of rollups. Experiments became infrastructure. Communities built institutions. Yet the most important things have stayed the same: openness, credible neutrality, permissionless innovation. Ethereum, the world computer For Safe, that history is personal. We are built on Ethereum, and we are still working on the same unfinished problem: making digital ownership usable, secure, and open to more people. At eleven, the most exciting part is not only how far Ethereum has come. It is how much of its original promise still lies ahead. Happy 11th birthday, Ethereum ⟠ To everyone who launched it, researches it, maintains it, secures it, and keeps building on it: thank you. The world computer is still running. We are still building. 🟢