Ethereum began as a blank canvas. Ethereum is an open, permissionless blockchain that developers can use to create any kind of application they want. This year, the early strokes laid down on that canvas began to form into a coherent picture. You don’t have to squint so much to see the direction Ethereum is going. Protocols and applications built on Ethereum are beginning to find product-market fit, quickly building communities of thousands of paying users. The empty spaces on the canvas are ...