Network Name: Ethereum
Currency Name: ether
Ticker: ETH
Mining: Proof of Work migrating to Proof of Stake in version 2.0
Founders: Vitalik Buterin
Launch Date: July 30th, 2015
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
MISSION
“The Ethereum Foundation’s mission is to promote and support Ethereum platform and base layer research, development and education to bring decentralized protocols and tools to the world that empower developers to produce next generation decentralized applications (dapps).”
WHITE PAPER
Linked here.