Ethereum White Paper, Explained. Part 1 & Part 2 aimed to help you understand how the Ethereum ecosystem works, now let us delve into the applications of the Ethereum Platform.

Ethereum has three main applications.

Financial Applications

These include currencies, derivatives, contracts, wallets, wills and could even include employment contracts.

Semi-Financial Applications

This category involves partial inclusion of money along with a non-monetary aspect. An example would be automatic bounties on finding solutions to computational problems.

Governance

Online voting is a possible use case for the Ethereum ecosystem.

Read the full primer here.