Temporal Analysis of the Entire Ethereum Blockchain Network A summary of the Web Conference 2021 research paper by Lin Zhao, Sourav Sen Gupta, Arijit Khan, and Robby Luo Background: With over USD 42 Billion market capitalization (October 2020), Ethereum is the largest public blockchain that supports smart contracts [1]. Ethereum is a transaction-based state-transition machine, where the state is made up of accounts. Transfer of asset and information between accounts, recorded in the blockchain, cause transitions in the Ethereum ‘world state’. There are two types of accounts in Ethereum – users and contracts. Transactions in Ethereum are initiated by user accounts, signed with their private keys, while internal messages in Ethereum can be generated by contract accounts. Ether is the primary asset (currency) for Ethereum blockchain. In addition to ether, Ethereum blockchain allows creation of Tokens, an abstraction of digital assets, via relevant methods implemented through smart c