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[H1] Building the era of Decentralized Finance
Explore our products Learn about Trustware Consensys builds the consumer platform, developer, enterprise, and agentic infrastructure, and protocol software powering the transition to decentralized finance. Scroll to explore
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Ethereum is Trustware. The transition from analog to digital trust is underway. Learn how Ethereum powers the core trust infrastructure for the world. (opens in new tab) INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY
[H2] The internet revolutionized the movement of information, it's time to do the same for capital.
Get the Trustware report Our financial system is overdue for its broadband moment — and we're building the platform and infrastructure to enable it. Ethereum makes trust programmable: cryptographic, consensus-driven, and verifiable.We call the technology built on this foundation trustware. From MetaMask — the consumer finance platform trusted by millions — to Infura's developer infrastructure and the protocol clients securing the network, Consensys is building the complete trustware finance stack.
[H2] The Trustware Finance Stack
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[H3] Our vertically integrated platform converts user and application intent into successful onchain outcomes, from authorization and routing to execution and settlement.
[H3] MetaMask
MetaMask is the world's most widely adopted self-custodial finance platform, with over millions of users and billions of dollars in digital assets secured. Users send, trade, earn, pay, and connect — all through a single interface backed by integrated transaction security, optimized routing, and cross-chain infrastructure. Download MetaMask (opens in new tab) Users
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[H3] MetaMask Developer
MetaMask Developer enables third-party application builders and agents to integrate with MetaMask and distribute digital asset experiences to millions of users — from wallet connections via the Connect SDK to embedded wallet functionality, all within MetaMask's non-custodial security model. Explore Developer Products (opens in new tab) Users
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[H3] Infura
Infura is the Internet Service Provider for Ethereum and other blockchain networks — scalable API infrastructure so developers can read and write to supported chains without operating their own nodes. Infura powers thousands of decentralized applications with high-availability endpoints, developer tools, and enterprise-grade performance. Build with Infura (opens in new tab) Requests Served Per Year
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[H2] ECOSYSTEM & INFRASTRUCTURE
[H3] Linea
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An Ethereum-equivalent Layer 2 network built with zero-knowledge technology. (opens in new tab)
[H3] Consensys Staking
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Secure, reliable staking infrastructure for institutions.
[H3] Teku
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A full Ethereum client built for institutional staking requirements.
[H3] Besu
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An open source Ethereum client for public and private network deployments. (opens in new tab) Building Ethereum
[H2] The Protocol Powering the Future of Finance
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[H3] From Block 0 through The Merge and beyond, Consensys has been instrumental in Ethereum's evolution into the world's most vital public blockchain — the core trust infrastructure for the global economy.
Ethereum enables instant settlement, transparent transactions, and programmable financial services.Consensys contributes to every major protocol upgrade, building and maintaining the execution and consensus clients that secure the network.
[IMG: The Pectra upgrade to the execution and consensus layers introduced Smart Accounts and other powerful features]
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[H3] The Pectra upgrade to the execution and consensus layers introduced Smart Accounts and other powerful features
[IMG: The Dencun Upgrade introduced proto-danksharding and blobs, making L2s vastly more efficient]
Learn More Dencun
[H3] The Dencun Upgrade introduced proto-danksharding and blobs, making L2s vastly more efficient
[IMG: Changing to proof-of-stake, the Merge reduced Ethereum]
Learn More The Merge
[H3] Changing to proof-of-stake, the Merge reduced Ethereum's energy use by 99.95% ensuring sustainable, scalable support for the onchain future
FIRST MOVER
[H2] Founded in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, Consensys has been a core contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem since before the genesis block — with a vision to build technology that makes finance more open, accessible, and equitable for everyone.
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[H2] Let's Build the New Economy
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[H2] The pulse of decentralized finance
News, insights, product updates, and more—straight from our teams at the heart of the Ethereum ecosystem. View all posts Newsletter
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[H1] The Vertically Integrated Platform for Decentralized Finance
For users and developers Ecosystem products Consensys integrates consumer applications, transaction execution services, developer infrastructure, and protocol-level software into a single platform — converting user and application intent into successful onchain outcomes. Scroll to explore
[H2] The Trustware Finance Stack
Download MetaMask (opens in new tab)
[H3] Our integrated platform manages the full transaction lifecycle — from authorization and security, through routing and execution optimization, to infrastructure connectivity and settlement. Whether you're a consumer managing assets, a developer building applications, or an institution running validators, our products work together across every layer.
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[H3] MetaMask
MetaMask is the world's most widely adopted self-custodial finance platform — the primary interface through which millions of users authorize, execute, and manage onchain transactions across 700+ blockchain networks. Users send, trade, earn, pay, and connect through a single trusted interface, backed by integrated transaction security, optimized routing, and MEV protection. MetaMask secures $60 billion in digital assets and supports over half a trillion dollars in annual transaction volume. Download MetaMask (opens in new tab) Users
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[H3] MetaMask Developer
MetaMask Developer enables application builders to integrate with MetaMask and distribute digital asset experiences to its global user base. The Connect SDK facilitates secure wallet connections across supported networks; the Embedded Wallet SDK lets developers offer digital asset functionality directly inside their applications — all within MetaMask's non-custodial security model. Explore Developer Products (opens in new tab) Users
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[H3] Infura
Infura provides scalable API infrastructure that connects applications to Ethereum and other blockchain networks without the cost and complexity of operating dedicated nodes. As the Internet Service Provider for the decentralized economy, Infura offers high-availability endpoints, developer tools, and transaction management services. The platform operates on a freemium model with usage-based pricing and enterprise tiers, serving thousands of development teams worldwide. Build with Infura (opens in new tab) Requests Served Per Year
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ECOSYSTEM & INFRASTRUCTURE
[H2] Securing Networks. Scaling the Future.
We build, incubate, and maintain critical blockchain clients and protocol-level software used by validators, enterprises, and infrastructure providers worldwide — essential for transaction processing, network security, and protocol upgrades.
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Ecosystem, Open-Source, and Protocol Projects Linea Ethereum Layer 2 network built with zero-knowledge rollup technology (opens in new tab) Consensys Staking Secure, reliable staking infrastructure for institutions Teku A full Ethereum client built for institutional staking requirements Besu An open source Ethereum client for public and private network deployments (opens in new tab) Web3Signer Secure external signing service for validators and custody (opens in new tab)
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[H1] Ethereum is Trustware
Download our Trustware report (opens in new tab) Scroll to explore Ethereum is Trustware
[H2] The transition from analog to digital trust is underway.
Download our Trustware report (opens in new tab)
[H3] Ethereum enables the mass production of trust in digital form — through cryptography, consensus, and capital. Ethereum is the trustware infrastructure powering the future global economy.
Trust is no longer just a social exchange between people or organizations. Ethereum transforms trust from what’s traditionally been provided as a service into a cryptographically secure, scalable, and economically self-sustaining commodity.Put more simply: Ethereum is the world’s deepest and purest well of programmable digital trust.
[H2] A Brief History of Trust
[H3] Trust is the foundation of the many systems that drive the modern world. Trust underpins every transaction, agreement, process and relationship. But legacy models of trust don’t scale for the digital age.
The architecture of trust has evolved through three great ages.
[H3] 01—Tribal trust
Tribal Trust was all about survival. Mutual cooperation and trust in your kin or band was the only way to navigate a harsh and primitive world. This scaled to maybe 150 individuals in your vicinity.
[H3] 02—Institutional trust
Major improvements came with civilization and the introduction of Institutional Trust. The invention of monarchies, religions, legal systems, money, governments, banks and corporations scaled trust to nations of millions—most strangers to each other—for the first time by leveraging force and reputation.
[H4] Architecture of Trust
[IMG: Trust is the foundation of the many systems that drive the modern world. Trust underpins every transaction, agreement, process and relationship. But legacy models of trust don’t scale for the digital age.]
[IMG: Trust is the foundation of the many systems that drive the modern world. Trust underpins every transaction, agreement, process and relationship. But legacy models of trust don’t scale for the digital age.]
[H3] 03—Digital trust
Today we are just past the dawn of a new, third age centered on Nakamoto’s invention of Digital Trust. Beginning with Bitcoin and advancing with Ethereum, we can now create and guarantee trust through mathematics and economics. Furthermore, trustware makes guaranteed trust programmable.Digital trust scales to billions without borders, intermediaries, or violence. It excels where previous, primitive forms of trust struggled. It provides guarantees that cannot be revoked or undermined by changing beliefs, political winds or institutional integrity. It is universally available, continuously, globally, and operates predictably. It enables near-instant settlement between parties who have never met, across any distance.
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“Financial networks reduce frictions and build trust between counterparties. Value instruments like dollars, bonds, and deeds, all mediate trust between strangers so we can build the complex world around us. These are already largely digital, but not easily shared or combined. Ethereum solves this as a neutral, digital-first, global programmable trust infrastructure for the world to use.” Defining Trustware: Trust as a New Commodity
[H2] Trust is no longer strictly a social exchange; it is a new type of commodity undergirding the paradigm shift to a digital global economy.
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[H3] Trustware is the digital infrastructure enabling a massive upgrade from millennia of relying on physical notes, paper ledgers, metal coins and opaque, private databases.
[IMG: Trustware is the digital infrastructure enabling a massive upgrade from millennia of relying on physical notes, paper ledgers, metal coins and opaque, private databases.]
Wetware moves thoughts; Hardware moves electrons; Software moves instructions; and now Trustware moves value.Trustware is a new layer in society's stack that automates and guarantees trust, making it universally accessible and programmable. Ethereum trustware turns the enforcement of agreements into a programmable, cryptographically secure service which burns the digital commodity ETH as literal economic fuel.Ethereum trustware is computationally verifiable and tamper resistant. The ETH trust commodity is consumed on demand as it powers transactions, 24/7, globally, without centralized intermediaries, for any person or program with access to the world wide web.
[H2] The Future Runs on Ethereum
[H3] Ethereum is core trustware, civilization-scale infrastructure for the world, offering the deepest, richest, most robust source of trust.
The apex Trustware technology is Ethereum, a secure, decentralized world computer, that can run the world's economy (and more). It is reshaping how money moves, identities work, and trust is built. We don’t just believe in it. We manifest it.Ethereum's breakthrough is making trust programmable, composable, and economically self-sustaining.It makes trust an open-source commodity (ETH) that millions already use.It is distributed, neutral and borderless, not controlled by any government or corporation.Ethereum and proof of stake offer mathematical certainty backed by economic security. It manufactures trust bottom-up through a global network of validators who stake economic value (ETH) to guarantee honest behavior.As it approaches the 10-year anniversary of its genesis block, the network remains, by almost any metric, in a class of one. The Future of Ethereum and its roadmap is bright.
[IMG: Ethereum is core trustware, civilization-scale infrastructure for the world, offering the deepest, richest, most robust source of trust.]
What is Ethereum
[H2] Not just a blockchain. Public infrastructure for an upgrade to the global economy.
Download our Trustware report (opens in new tab)
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Ethereum delivers a new kind of public infrastructure: a decentralized world computer, underpinned by a universal trust and settlement layer, designed to serve as the connective tissue for a global economy in transition.As the world shifts toward digital finance, tokenized assets, and AI-powered commerce, Ethereum and its proof of stake architecture provide the secure, scalable, and composable infrastructure to power the next wave of economic transformation.

The future of the global economy will run on Ethereum, because only Ethereum has the network, developer community, and technological innovation to make it possible. Ethereum is already powering Financial systems and tokenized assets Digital identity and on-chain reputation Supply chains and real-time logistics DAOs, games, and creative economies What is Ethereum’s Trustware Worth?
[H2] $ Trillion
[H3] The current, cost of social-based institutional trust infrastructure is over $9 trillion every year; we expect at least $3 trillion in assets will run on Ethereum’s digital trust by 2028.
This transformation of trust from a service to commodity achieves something economists thought impossible: trust with near zero marginal cost. Early adopters from traditional finance—BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Franklin Templeton—have moved billions of dollars in tokenized assets on-chain. Ethereum hosts the deepest liquidity, the most developers, and the richest ecosystem of applications.
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In the last 12 months Ethereum settled $14.26 trillion in stablecoin value, more than Mastercard ($7.8T) and close to Visa ($15.1T). This occurred with 100% uptime and zero protocol-level fund losses. Download our Trustware report (opens in new tab) Consensys: The Ethereum Company, Enabling the Future Economy
[H2] We’ve been building trust, and trustware, for a decade.
Explore our products
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Meet the trustware stack: Clients Teku (consensus), Besu (execution), Web3Signer Scaling Linea, our zkEVM Layer 2 Developer Services Infura APIs and decentralized infrastructure Staking & Governance Enterprise staking, delegation tooling, DIN User Access MetaMask Ethereum wallet (also supports other chains), SDKs, smart account support
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[H2] The Trust Machine Has Been Built
Download our Trustware report (opens in new tab)
[H3] It runs continuously, improving itself, securing ever more value, attracting ever more users.
The last time humanity invented a new way to manufacture trust at scale was the joint-stock corporation in 1602. That innovation created $100+ trillion in enterprise value. Ethereum is the next such innovation. The question is not whether you believe in Ethereum. The question is whether you believe in the digitization of coordination. When trillion-dollar institutions require cryptographic certainty for securities settlement, when central banks explore digital currency infrastructure, when Fortune 500 companies tokenize real assets, their own equity even, they will converge on a single choice. Ethereum alone has proven antifragile across every dimension that matters: security, reliability, decentralization, and institutional trust. Newsletter
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[H1] Building the era of Decentralized Finance
Learn why Ethereum Our work on Ethereum Scroll to exploreOur Story Founded in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, Consensys has been part of Ethereum’s journey from before the genesis block. We incubated the first Ethereum wallet, funded early projects, and developed the infrastructure that helped Ethereum scale. Today, our technologies support millions of users and thousands of developers around the world. We’re shaping the foundation of a revolutionary global digital economy by building the tools and infrastructure powering Ethereum. At Consensys, we build what’s next. We’ve contributed to every major Ethereum upgrade. And we’re still just getting started. Who we are
[H2] Engineers Researchers Builders Contributors
[H3] We're a global team of over 700 technologists, designers, cryptographers, product thinkers, and researchers building the consumer platform, developer infrastructure, and protocol software for the future global economy.
We build across multiple layers of the onchain stack — from user-facing applications to transaction optimization, developer tools, and protocol-level clients. Ethereum is our home turf — and our responsibility.
[H2] Our History
01 How it started
[H3] Getting to the genesis block
It started with an idea. Vitalik presented his vision for executable smart contracts at the Bitcoin Miami conference in 2014. Joseph Lubin, Consensys’ founder, flew down to Miami to begin preparing for what would be the launch of the largest smart contract blockchain: Ethereum.
Even before the first block was confirmed on Ethereum, Consensys, alongside different developer teams around the world, helped contribute to what would become the Ethereum protocol.
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November 2013 Block 0: Vitalik Buterin publishes the Ethereum white paper, attracting the attention of technologists around the world.January 2014 Block 0: Vitalik Buterin formally announces Ethereum at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami.November 2014 Block 0: Consensus Systems (Consensys) is founded by Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of the Ethereum project.July 2015 Block 1: The Ethereum Genesis block is generated and loaded for Frontier, the first live release of Ethereum.02 The launch
[H3] Middleware layers for developers to bootstrap the network
Between 2016 and 2019, the first group of projects within Consensys launched to market. MetaMask became one of the first wallets available for interacting with the Ethereum network, whether to send ETH and other tokens to friends or connect your wallet to a dapp. Infura created an Ethereum API so other web3 developers could bootstrap applications without having to take on the burden of running their own node infrastructure.
[IMG: Middleware layers for developers to bootstrap the network ]
July 2016 Kumavis and Dan Finlay launch MetaMask as a browser extension.November 2016 Infura launches, enabling developers to bootstrap their Web3 applications, without the burden of having to run their own infrastructure.February 2017 The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) launches with founding board members Consensys, J. P. Morgan, BNY-Mellon, Microsoft, Intel, CME Group, and more.June 2017 Consensys Diligence launches its mission to raise the bar for security and ethics best practices for the Ethereum ecosystem.June 2019 Consensys' developer toolkit Truffle passes 100,000 downloads monthly.03 Integrated software company
[H3] Beginnings of mainstream adoption
By 2020, Consensys restructured to become an integrated software company to support both developers in building novel web3 applications, and end-users to interact with them. By supporting protocol development, both on Ethereum and other Ethereum-compatible blockchains, Consensys played a critical role in fostering the first major wave of adoption in decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).
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September 2020 MetaMask Mobile Launches on iOS and Android.February 2021 SD stablecoin market grows to more than $25 billion.August 2021 NFTs 10x in popularity with record $3.25 billion in NFT sales volume.March 2022 Consensys Raises $450M Series D Funding.September 2022 Ethereum successfully completes “the Merge” to Proof of Stake, eliminating 99.99% of of its carbon footprint overnight.04 Looking Forward
[H3] A new foundation for the global financial system
2023 was an inflection point for Ethereum network growth, powered by layer 2 expansion. Consensys launched its own fully Ethereum-equivalent zkEVM L2, Linea, with a mission to strengthen Ethereum. At the same time, the company continues to push adoption forward with the introduction of MetaMask Card, MetaMask USD and a treasury strategy through sister company Sharplink investing over $3 billion in ether (ETH).
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JULY 2023 Linea Mainnet launches.JULY 2024 First Ethereum ETFs approved by US Securities and Exchange Commission.AUGUST 2024 MetaMask Card first introduced, enabling spending tokens anywhere Mastercard is accepted.JUNE 2025 Sharplink makes first purchase of ETH for its treasury, equaling nearly $500 million.AUGUST 2025 MetaMask USD, the first stablecoin from a self-custodial wallet, is announced.
[H2] We advocate for smart, innovation-friendly regulation
Read our policy perspectives From Washington to Brussels, we work with policymakers, regulators, and advocacy groups to ensure that blockchain technology and decentralized finance can continue to develop within clear, well-designed regulatory frameworks.
[H2] We’re proud to:
Contribute to amicus briefs in key legal cases
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Engage directly with governments on digital asset regulation
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Advocate for developers and users around the world
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True believers and recent converts
[H2] Meet Joe Lubin
Joseph Lubin is the founder and CEO of Consensys, chairman of SharpLink, and co-founder of Ethereum. Born and raised in Toronto, Lubin graduated from Princeton University with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. As a software and AI consultant, Lubin worked with eMagine on the Identrus project and was involved in the founding and operation of a hedge fund with a partner. He held positions as Director of the New York office of Blacksmith Software Consulting, and VP of Technology in Private Wealth
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Work With Us
[H2] Join a team that’s building the next layer of the internet
We’re hiring across engineering, design, research, product, and more. Remote-first. Ethereum-native. Mission-aligned. See open roles Media
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[H3] Got Questions?
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[H3] Press Releases
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