Martin Becze was an early Ethereum core developer who built the Node.js Ethereum client and created the EIP (Ethereum Improvement Proposals) repository, the framework through which Ethereum standards like ERC-20 would be proposed and formalized.
At DEVCON0 in November 2014, Martin participated in the client panel discussion alongside Gavin Wood (C++), Jeff Wilcke (Go), and [REDACTED] (Python), representing the Node-Ethereum implementation.
Fabian Vogelsteller credited the EIP repository as the catalyst for formalizing the ERC-20 token standard:
"Martin Becze before created the EIP repository and I think Gavin or whatever mentioned like, where do we do the standardization? And I think he mentioned, yeah, we have the EIP repository. That would be the right place." — Fabian Vogelsteller (Episode 12)
Martin also contributed to the ewasm (Ethereum WebAssembly) initiative, which explored replacing the EVM with a WebAssembly-based execution engine.
Writing
Exploring Ethereum's state trie with Node.js - published by Martin on 21st May 2014
Back-links
Other pages that reference this:
- Gav's ÐΞV Update I: Where Ethereum's at (Articles, October 17, 2014)
- DEVCON0 (Articles, November 24, 2014)
- ÐΞVcon-0 Recap (Articles, December 05, 2014)
- DEVCON1 Agenda (Articles, November 09, 2015)
- Ethereum Foundation Internal Update (Articles, January 07, 2016)
- The last Blog Post (Articles, January 11, 2016)
- Early Days of Ethereum - Episode 11 - Martin Becze (Videos, January 28, 2026)
- Early Days of Ethereum - Episode 12 - Fabian Vogelsteller (Videos, February 25, 2026)
- Geth (Articles)
- Fabian Vogelsteller (People)
- Gavin Wood (People)
- Jeff Wilcke (People)