Ethereum (ETH) MCQs September 29, 2025 by u930973931_answers 50 Score: 0 Attempted: 0/50 Subscribe 1. : Who is the founder of Ethereum? (A) Charles Hoskinson (B) Gavin Wood (C) Vitalik Buterin (D) Satoshi Nakamoto 2. : In which year was Ethereum officially launched? (A) 2012 (B) 2015 (C) 2018 (D) 2010 3. : What is the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum called? (A) Ether (ETH) (B) Bitcoin (BTC) (C) Ripple (XRP) (D) Dogecoin (DOGE) 4. : Ethereum primarily uses which technology? (A) Distributed Databases (B) Blockchain (C) Cloud Servers (D) Quantum Computing 5. : Which consensus mechanism did Ethereum originally use? (A) Proof of Work (PoW) (B) Proof of Stake (PoS) (C) Proof of Authority (D) Delegated Proof of Stake 6. : Ethereum transitioned to Proof of Stake in an upgrade known as? (A) Lightning Network (B) Beacon Chain (C) The Merge (D) Casper Swap 7. : Smart contracts on Ethereum are written using which language? (A) Python (B) Solidity (C) C++ (D) Go 8. : Which Ethereum token standard is commonly used for fungible tokens? (A) ERC-721 (B) ERC-1155 (C) ERC-20 (D) ERC-1400 9. : Which token standard is mainly used for NFTs on Ethereum? (A) ERC-223 (B) ERC-721 (C) ERC-777 (D) ERC-998 10. : Ethereum’s gas is paid in? (A) Bitcoin (B) Gwei (a fraction of ETH) (C) Dollar (D) Tether (USDT) 11. : What is the maximum supply of Ethereum? (A) 21 million (B) Unlimited (C) 500 million (D) 100 million 12. : Which consensus algorithm does Ethereum currently use? (A) PoW (B) PoS (C) DPoS (D) BFT 13. : What was Ethereum’s first test network called? (A) Kovan (B) Ropsten (C) Frontier (D) Homestead 14. : Which upgrade introduced the London Hard Fork with EIP-1559? (A) Constantinople (B) Byzantium (C) London (D) Istanbul 15. : EIP-1559 introduced what mechanism? (A) Proof of Stake (B) Base Fee Burn (C) Sharding (D) Token Swapping 16. : Ethereum transactions require a fee called? (A) Toll (B) Gas (C) Stake (D) Node Fee 17. : Which Ethereum co-founder later founded Cardano (ADA)? (A) Gavin Wood (B) Charles Hoskinson (C) Joseph Lubin (D) Anthony Di Iorio 18. : Which co-founder of Ethereum created Polkadot? (A) Gavin Wood (B) Vitalik Buterin (C) Joseph Lubin (D) Amir Chetrit 19. : What is Ethereum’s primary use case? (A) File Storage (B) Smart Contracts & DApps (C) Mining Only (D) Cloud Hosting 20. : Ethereum was crowdfunded in which year? (A) 2012 (B) 2013 (C) 2014 (D) 2015 21. : The organization behind Ethereum’s early development is? (A) Ethereum Labs (B) Ethereum Foundation (C) Vitalik Research (D) Blockchain Alliance 22. : Ethereum nodes are used for? (A) File Sharing (B) Validating Transactions (C) Hosting Websites (D) Gaming 23. : What are DApps in Ethereum? (A) Digital Applications (B) Decentralized Applications (C) Distributed Accounts (D) Data Applications 24. : Ethereum Layer 2 solutions aim to? (A) Increase Privacy (B) Reduce Gas Fees & Scale (C) Replace ETH (D) Stop Mining 25. : Which Layer 2 solution is built for Ethereum scaling? (A) Solana (B) Polygon (C) Binance Chain (D) RippleNet 26. : Ethereum’s Beacon Chain went live in which year? (A) 2018 (B) 2019 (C) 2020 (D) 2021 27. : The Ethereum upgrade after Frontier was called? (A) Byzantium (B) Homestead (C) Istanbul (D) London 28. : Ethereum block time is approximately? (A) 10 minutes (B) 2.5 minutes (C) 13–15 seconds (D) 1 second 29. : Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is? (A) A mining hardware (B) A blockchain explorer (C) A decentralized computer for smart contracts (D) A wallet 30. : Which wallet was co-created by Ethereum’s Joseph Lubin? (A) MetaMask (B) Trust Wallet (C) Coinbase Wallet (D) Mycelium 31. : Ethereum 2.0 mainly focuses on? (A) Proof of Authority (B) Proof of Stake & Sharding (C) Proof of Work Mining (D) Unlimited Gas 32. : Gas prices in Ethereum are usually measured in? (A) ETH (B) USD (C) Gwei (D) BTC 33. : What does ERC stand for? (A) Ethereum Request for Coins (B) Ethereum Resource Contract (C) Ethereum Request for Comments (D) Ethereum Registry Code 34. : What is the smallest denomination of Ether called? (A) Gwei (B) Finney (C) Wei (D) Szabo 35. : Which hard fork was created after the DAO hack in 2016? (A) Ethereum Classic (ETC) (B) Polkadot (C) Litecoin (D) Solana 36. : The DAO hack resulted in loss of approximately? (A) $5 Million (B) $50 Million (C) $150 Million (D) $1 Billion 37. : Ethereum’s Istanbul upgrade was in which year? (A) 2017 (B) 2018 (C) 2019 (D) 2020 38. : Which is the largest DeFi protocol built on Ethereum (as of early 2023)? (A) Aave (B) Uniswap (C) Compound (D) MakerDAO 39. : Ethereum smart contracts are? (A) Mutable (B) Immutable (C) Temporary (D) Offline only 40. : The Ethereum Merge took place in? (A) 2021 (B) 2022 (C) 2023 (D) 2020 41. : Sharding in Ethereum is meant to? (A) Increase Block Size (B) Divide Blockchain into Parallel Chains (C) Replace Gas Fees (D) Remove PoS 42. : The Ethereum consensus after The Merge is secured by? (A) Miners (B) Stakers (C) Developers (D) Oracles 43. : Ethereum accounts can be of two types: (A) Smart Contract & Wallet (B) Externally Owned & Contract Accounts (C) Miner Account & User Account (D) Private & Public 44. : Ethereum gas limit defines? (A) The maximum block size (B) The number of miners (C) The max computational work per block (D) The amount of ETH per wallet 45. : Which company announced Ethereum support in Microsoft Azure in 2015? (A) Amazon (B) IBM (C) Microsoft (D) Google 46. : Ethereum blocks are created by? (A) Validators (B) Miners only (C) Exchanges (D) Wallets 47. : Ethereum’s first public release was named? (A) Constantinople (B) Frontier (C) Homestead (D) Byzantium 48. : Vitalik Buterin was born in which country? (A) USA (B) Russia (C) Canada (D) Ukraine 49. : Ethereum can be described as? (A) A payment system only (B) A world computer for decentralized apps (C) A gaming platform (D) Just another cryptocurrency 50. : The largest NFT marketplace built on Ethereum is? (A) OpenSea (B) Rarible (C) Foundation (D) Magic Eden