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Slock.it construct TheDAO Ethereum Contract; a security audit is completed by Dejavu

TheDAO smart contract is deployed; members of the public send it value in return for DAO tokens

Slock.it announce a $1.5 Million USD proposal, paid in Ether by the crowdfund, 'to guarantee the integrity of The DAO'

On the last day of the crowdsale, DAO curator Vlad Zamfir calls for a moratorium on TheDAO, citing many game-theoretical security issues

The crowdsale completes to become the world's largest and raising an incredible $150 Million USD

Peter Vessenes publicly discloses the existence of a critical security vulnerability overlooked in many Solidiy contracts

Stephan Tual publicly claims that TheDAO funds are safe despite the newly-discovered critical security flaw

Ether is slowly and silently drained from TheDAO as the re-entry bug is applied

The price of Ether is slashed in half as Griff Green announces that TheDAO has been hacked

Many days of intense arguing goes on in the Ethereum community about the pros and cons of implementing a Hard Fork

The only remaining option is a controversial Hard Fork. A Specification is determined and announced by Slock.it and Ethereum Foundation members

ETH supporters form a mining pool called 51Pool.org with plans to destroy the ETC network by orchestrating a 51% attack

After the ETC network grew to a point where they could no longer attack it, ETH miners publicly declare not to attack ETC.

Millions of previously locked or frozen ETC become available to DAO token holders and the DAO hacker.

During the ETH attacks, many battle cries come out of Ethereum Classic supporters.

Ethereum Classic supporters debate ETC's emission schedule and monetary policy

IOHK commits a team of 7 full-time developers to Ethereum Classic

A team of long-term ETC contributors and volunteers rebrands as a ETCDEV team

Ethereum Classic forms consensus around a 210.7M ETC fixed-cap monetary policy with a Bitcoin-inspired limited emission schedule called 5M20;

A development team forms under the Ethereum Commonwealth name

The release of this beta client, Mantis, will take place today and is the culmination of seven months of work by the Grothendieck Team

Grayscale signals long-term support for Ethereum Classic protocol

The Multi-Geth client project launches.

ETC Cooperative funds the development of the Kotti testnet

Ethereum Classic core developers reach rough consensus on ECIP-1056 in an effort to implement ETH's Constaninople

The ETC Core team forks away from the Multi-Geth client project.

Phoenix testing begins on the Mordor PoW testnet on block 999,983.

As the ecosystem continues to organically grow, the independent development teams are guided by principles that make Ethereum Classic such a unique network.