Looking back: 2022 on ethereum.org

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From the detonation of the scaling and furniture 2 ecosystems to the archetypal Devcon successful 3 years and The Merge, it has been an breathtaking twelvemonth for Ethereum and ethereum.org. We’ve shipped galore impactful features and content, with thousands of unthinkable contributors helping america on the way.

Let’s dive into our highlights of 2022:

Translation programme 🌎

Bringing acquisition Ethereum contented to arsenic galore languages arsenic imaginable is captious to our team's imaginativeness for ethereum.org. Our unthinkable assemblage of contributors has travel a agelong mode since we became a multilingual website successful 2019, and successful 2022 we were thrilled to spot continued maturation successful the fig of radical contributing to our translation programme and the fig of readers successful non-English languages surging.

2022 successful numbers

3k caller translators joined
4.6 cardinal words translated
28% of visits are successful languages different than English (double 2021’s high)

Help america construe ethereum.org

There was a batch to observe successful 2022, but we inactive person acold to spell to present Ethereum acquisition to the non-English speaking world. If you talk a connection too English, cheque retired the translation programme and assistance marque ethereum.org much accessible to everyone!

Join the translation program

Ethereum.org is the enactment of thousands of unthinkable contributors, and each publication helps america physique a large assets for the community. As with the translation program, ethereum.org saw fantabulous engagement successful galore different community-driven initiatives. In 2022 we deed 37,000 Discord members, an unthinkable 7,000 Crowdin members, and the immense milestone of 1,000 full contributors connected GitHub!

Specifically, betwixt our rollout of Typescript and the UI room migration, we had implicit 50 codification contributors 🤯!

For content, we besides had tens of contributors assistance america constitute caller pages for ethereum.org. These included pages connected blockchain bridges, DeSci, decentralized identity, and galore more!

We can’t stress capable however overmuch we admit each and each contributor ❤️. If you’d similar to lend and assistance america physique ethereum.org successful 2023, check retired our Q1 roadmap.

Open plan strategy 📐

Since May of 2022, we’ve been moving connected creating the ethereum.org plan system. It took a batch of enactment to get the plan to wherever it is, and we’re excited to stock it. In Q1 2023, we’ll statesman implementing the codification to enactment the caller plan system.

One of the overarching goals down creating a plan strategy is to springiness designers a mode to lend to the open-source Ethereum community. In 2023, we’ll proceed to enactment with the assemblage to unfastened up our plan processes to the community.

Want to get involved? Follow on successful Figma and articulation the speech successful our #design Discord channel.

Lots of caller pages 🥳

2022 was the biggest twelvemonth yet for caller contented connected ethereum.org. We addressed galore of our contented gaps and delivered informative, well-received pages that were work by much than a cardinal people.

There are excessively galore pages to database everything present (now much than 300 pages connected the website!), but immoderate of the highlights include:

Layer 2: teaches users wherefore Ethereum is scaling done rollups and however to onboard to furniture 2.
Run a node: highlights the worth of moving a node (both to radical moving their ain node and to Ethereum generally) and gives readers step-by-step resources to commencement moving their ain nodes.
Staking hub: demystifies the staking process and the cardinal benefits of antithetic staking approaches.
Introduction to Web3: explains the principles of Web3, its philosophy, and existent limitations.
Energy consumption: shows Ethereum’s existent and humanities vigor depletion and the interaction The Merge had.

In 2023, we’ll proceed moving with our assemblage and subject-matter experts wrong the Ethereum ecosystem to capable our gaps and present high-value contented to our readers. If you’d similar to help, reach retired to america connected Discord.

You tin spot what we’re moving connected adjacent successful our quarterly roadmap, oregon you tin create an issue if determination is contented you’d similar to spot added to ethereum.org.

Find wallet revamp 👛

Another immense milestone successful 2022 was the revamp of our wallets content. A ample information of postulation to ethereum.org is from users looking to get their archetypal wallet. On our erstwhile find a wallet page, it took a batch of enactment to comparison the antithetic features wallets offered, making it hard for users to determine which wallet champion suited their needs.

After respective plan iterations, we landed connected creating an e-commerce-like experience—allowing users to filter wallets by circumstantial features, comparison features betwixt wallets, and prime idiosyncratic personas with recommended features.

Check retired our find a wallet page. We emotion feedback; fto america cognize your thoughts on our Discord.

Learn hub and larn quizzes 🧠

There is simply a changeless watercourse of caller users trying to larn astir Ethereum. In 2022, we spent a batch of clip focussing connected creating a amended acquisition for these users. Creating easy-to-understand contented is simply a driving rule of everything we enactment on, but these 2 initiatives were particularly focused connected this subset of our users.

Learn hub

We created the Learn Hub due to the fact that users needed assistance uncovering a starting constituent for learning astir Ethereum without feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of accusation disposable and the disconnectedness of the antithetic pages connected our website. The Learn Hub is simply a guided pathway for users, starting from the basics of what cryptocurrencies are, walking them done getting started connected Ethereum with their archetypal wallet, teaching them however the Ethereum protocol works, and however they tin get progressive successful the ecosystem.

Learning quizzes

As good arsenic providing a structured learning way with the Learn Hub, we wanted to marque learning astir Ethereum much amusive for users, amended their retention, and gamify the process. To bash this, we created learning quizzes. Each quiz has respective questions, with aggregate imaginable answers with explanations aft submitting an reply to assistance thatch users erstwhile they get questions wrong.

We presently person learning quizzes connected 8 pages and program to grow it with much functionality and pages successful 2023. They’re a ton of fun! Check them out:

The Merge 🌳

Undoubtedly the biggest Ethereum lawsuit of 2022 was The Merge. As portion of preparing The Merge, we audited the full website for contented that would necessitate changes aft Ethereum switched to proof-of-stake.

In summation to auditing and updating hundreds of pages of existing content, we created galore caller pages to bespeak the changes that were made like: proof-of-stake often asked questions, proof-of-stake vs proof-of-work, how blocks are produced connected proof-of-stake, and galore more.

For afloat details, spot the 3 ample initiatives we worked connected related to The Merge:

Other projects 🏃‍♂️

As good arsenic our halfway merchandise connected ethereum.org, we spent a batch of clip helping retired connected different projects cardinal to the occurrence of Ethereum. We won’t item each of them in-depth, but you should cheque them out!

Ethereum instauration blog: rebuilt the blog to adhd internationalization
Ecosystem enactment programme (ESP): rebuilt the ESP website
Geth: designed and built a caller website for Geth’s documentation
EthStaker CLR: designed and built an exertion enabling a staking-focused quadratic backing round
Staking Launchpad: updated and added contented for The Merge and added translations
EF Cryptography Research: designed and built a blog for EF cryptography researchers
KZG ceremony: helped adhd internationalization and hole frontend bugs for the upcoming KZG ceremony

Looking up 👀

With truthful overmuch achieved, the ethereum.org assemblage has overmuch to beryllium arrogant of successful 2022. Thanks again to the thousands of contributors who got involved!

Like Ethereum itself, we inactive person a agelong mode to spell if we privation to proceed gathering the astir broad and inclusive assets for Ethereum connected the internet.

For that, we request your help! We’ve conscionable released our Q1 merchandise roadmap. Check it out, and fto america cognize however you’d similar to get progressive 🙏