Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum @ethereuminsti
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1/ Thrilled to be launching @ethereuminsti today, an independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of @ethereum and its wider ecosystem.
For years, Ethereum has had the most credibly neutral, liquid, and battle-tested base layer in crypto. What it lacked was a neutral party responsible for the wider ecosystem's institutional GTM, someone in the room with institutions, representing Ethereum as a whole rather than any single product or vendor.
For the past year at the Ethereum Foundation, our team has been doing that: helping institutions cut through the noise, choose Ethereum with confidence, and connect to the right teams building across the ecosystem.
What we heard, again and again, was that institutions valued having an honest, neutral counterpart they could actually call.
So we're scaling it, independently. As institutional adoption accelerates, Ethereum Institutional takes that work and makes it permanent, with long-term backing from @BitMNR , @Sharplink and @ethereumJoseph. More of the ecosystem partners supporting us will be revealed soon.
David Walsh retweeted
News: @ARKInvest is tokenizing the $1.3 billion ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) with @Securitize on @ethereum.
ARKVX is an actively managed interval fund made up of both private and public companies, with holdings including SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Replit.
Eligible investors can access the tokenized share class from a $500 minimum.
Private company exposure that was closed to most is now accessible onchain, on Ethereum.
Today, we’re bringing the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) onchain with @ARKInvest and making it available on @ethereum.
For the first time, eligible investors can access the tokenized version of ARK’s flagship disruptive innovation fund with a minimum investment of $500.
David Walsh retweeted
Excited to welcome Benjamin Chodroff as Head of Technical Strategy and MENA at Ethereum Institutional, based in Abu Dhabi.
Benjamin brings 20+ years at the intersection of finance and emerging technology, most recently leading institutional finance sales for MENA and APAC at @OpenZeppelin, and before that seven years at @HSBC, where he headed the bank's emerging technology lab and launched tokenized deposit, bond and CBDC products. He'll be central to bringing institutional-grade rigour to how institutions build on Ethereum.
Welcome to the team, @benchodroff!
David Walsh retweeted
See you in Miami!
Ethereum Institutional will be at @Sibos Miami.
Our co-founder @mariuslsmith will be in Miami meeting with banks, asset managers and market infrastructures to discuss what institutional deployment on Ethereum looks like in practice.
If that's you, feel free to reach out.
David Walsh retweeted
Ethereum Institutional is heading east.
Our co-founder @ismiMatthew will be at @kbwofficial and @token2049 Singapore over the coming weeks, speaking at events and meeting teams building on Ethereum.
If you're exploring institutional deployment on Ethereum, get in touch 👋
David Walsh retweeted
Join us on November 12th in London for the third edition of the Ethereum Institutional Forum 🇬🇧
We're announcing the relaunch of the Ethereum Institutional Forum: a curated, closed-door event series for senior institutional participants and leading voices from across the Ethereum ecosystem.
We started the Forum while at the @ethereumfndn, with editions in Hong Kong and New York. It now returns as a dedicated series under @ethereuminsti.
The premise is unchanged: a credible, neutral environment to understand where Ethereum is heading technically, and what that means commercially.
The next few years will shape the infrastructure of global finance. Institutions will need to decide where to issue, settle, custody and build. Those decisions are better made in a room with the people building and advancing the ecosystem.
EIF III takes place in London on 12 November, bringing together banks, asset managers, market infrastructures, and Ethereum leaders including @drakefjustin.
Themes will include Ethereum's technical roadmap, post-quantum security, native issuance, and Ethereum's role as infrastructure for onchain finance.
Further Forums will be announced soon.
Attendance is by application. If you're a senior institutional participant or ecosystem leader, register your interest below.
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
David Walsh retweeted
Deutsche Bank is adding ethereum:native to its new institutional custody service, alongside Bitcoin and selected stablecoins.
Launching in Germany later this year, pending regulatory approvals.
David Walsh retweeted
Bigger. Better. Excited for this one in London!
We're announcing the relaunch of the Ethereum Institutional Forum: a curated, closed-door event series for senior institutional participants and leading voices from across the Ethereum ecosystem.
We started the Forum while at the @ethereumfndn, with editions in Hong Kong and New York. It now returns as a dedicated series under @ethereuminsti.
The premise is unchanged: a credible, neutral environment to understand where Ethereum is heading technically, and what that means commercially.
The next few years will shape the infrastructure of global finance. Institutions will need to decide where to issue, settle, custody and build. Those decisions are better made in a room with the people building and advancing the ecosystem.
EIF III takes place in London on 12 November, bringing together banks, asset managers, market infrastructures, and Ethereum leaders including @drakefjustin.
Themes will include Ethereum's technical roadmap, post-quantum security, native issuance, and Ethereum's role as infrastructure for onchain finance.
Further Forums will be announced soon.
Attendance is by application. If you're a senior institutional participant or ecosystem leader, register your interest below.
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
Bigger. Better. Excited for this one in London!
We're announcing the relaunch of the Ethereum Institutional Forum: a curated, closed-door event series for senior institutional participants and leading voices from across the Ethereum ecosystem.
We started the Forum while at the @ethereumfndn, with editions in Hong Kong and New York. It now returns as a dedicated series under @ethereuminsti.
The premise is unchanged: a credible, neutral environment to understand where Ethereum is heading technically, and what that means commercially.
The next few years will shape the infrastructure of global finance. Institutions will need to decide where to issue, settle, custody and build. Those decisions are better made in a room with the people building and advancing the ecosystem.
EIF III takes place in London on 12 November, bringing together banks, asset managers, market infrastructures, and Ethereum leaders including @drakefjustin.
Themes will include Ethereum's technical roadmap, post-quantum security, native issuance, and Ethereum's role as infrastructure for onchain finance.
Further Forums will be announced soon.
Attendance is by application. If you're a senior institutional participant or ecosystem leader, register your interest below.
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
David Walsh retweeted
On the ground in the UAE @mariuslsmith 🇦🇪
Full house for @mariuslsmith in #Dubai.
The keynote ends and he’s immediately surrounded. People actually staying to ask questions, not just hovering for a photo (only ;-).
That’s @ethereuminsti doing the work the unglamorous way: showing up, talking to institutions, answering the messy stuff in person.
Good energy in the room today.
@joechalom @fundstrat #ethereum ethereum:native
David Walsh retweeted
The German central bank, @bundesbank, has become the first institution to test and deploy the Prividium platform in its own infrastructure.
Prividium is the institutional DLT platform built by @the_matter_labs, the team behind @zksync.
David Walsh retweeted
Qivalis is coming to Ethereum.
@qivaliseu is a consortium of European banks building a regulated euro stablecoin under MiCA.
Qivalis at a glance:
→ 37 banks across 15 countries
→ 1:1 euro backing
→ EMI licence pending with the Dutch central bank
→ Target launch H2 2026
While some other bank consortia have kept their tokenised money on private networks, Qivalis is issuing on a public chain, where the liquidity, the users and the DeFi markets already are.
Dollar-pegged stablecoins are ~99.5% of the ~$300B stablecoin market. Europe is building its answer on @ethereum.
David Walsh retweeted
Why did @RobinhoodApp choose to build out their own L2 instead of going with alternative options?
Listen to @sgoldfed from @Offchain on why they chose to build on @arbitrum
David Walsh retweeted
Standard Chartered has launched ethereum:native spot trading for institutional clients in the UAE, becoming the first G-SIB to do so in the country.
This sits alongside its UAE custody business, which launched in September 2024, and follows its UK institutional ETH spot trading, which launched in July 2025.
David Walsh retweeted
To all those wondering whether Robinhood Chain’s success is good for ETH, the answer is a resounding yes.
According to @DefiLlama, ETH or WETH are traded in roughly 61.2% of total DEX trade volume on Robinhood Chain (an Eth L2), $31.6B of $51.6B in all-time recorded volume.
Don’t let KOLs lie to you.
ETH is the money at the center of new DeFi economies built on Ethereum L1 and L2s.
David Walsh retweeted
It was a busy summer for @ethereum.
→ @RobinhoodApp Chain, an @arbitrum Orbit-based Ethereum L2, launched and passed $1B in TVL within 6 weeks.
→ @Revolut, Europe's largest fintech with 80M+ customers, announced EURR, a euro stablecoin issued by Bridge and live on day one on Ethereum.
→ @jpmorgan Asset Management's two tokenized money market funds, MONY and JLTXX, grew to over $800M combined on Ethereum mainnet.
→ @CreditAgricole launched EURXT, a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin issued by @CACEIS on Ethereum, first used to settle a subscription into a tokenized @Amundi_FR money market fund.
→ SBI issued JPYSC on Ethereum, Japan's first trust-type yen stablecoin, built with @StartaleGroup and issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank.
→ @openstandard confirmed Open USD will launch on Ethereum on day one, 140+ businesses partnered here already including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock and BNY.
→ @BlackRock launched Ethereum-based OnChain Shares of its Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL), with @BNYglobal serving as transfer agent and tokenization provider.
→ In parallel, it introduced BRSRV, a tokenized money market fund built for digitally native institutional investors and stablecoin reserve use cases, serviced by @Securitize.
→ The day after BSTBL and BRSRV, @BlackRock announced it is tokenizing share classes of its European Institutional Cash Series money market funds on Ethereum, representing $311B in assets as of June 30, in partnership with Kinexys by J.P. Morgan.
→ @neubergerberman launched its first tokenized fixed-income fund, HINC, serviced by @Securitize and live on Ethereum.
→ @MorganStanley launched MSSE, an Ethereum ETP that stakes a portion of its holdings and passes the rewards to investors.
→ @Fidelity filed to add staking to its Ethereum ETF, covering nearly all of the fund's ETH, around $898M at filing.
→ ethereum:native moved from roughly $1,560 on July 1 to around $2,450 at the end of August.
→ Three new nodes joined the Ethereum ecosystem: @ethereuminsti, @ethlabs_org , and @eth_systems; all focused on Ethereum adoption.
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
David Walsh retweeted
We are continuing to recruit for several key positions. Please reach out if you know anyone who would be a good fit for any of the roles below, or apply directly via the link below:
→ Head of US (NYC)
→ US GTM Lead (East Coast)
→ APAC GTM Lead (HK / Tokyo)
→ Forward Deployed Engineers (Global)
David Walsh retweeted
Pleased to share this.
A significant development that has been in the works for some time.
Whilst many assets eventually go multichain, Ethereum is the proven venue for institutional launches.
More info in the blog.
Revolut, a leading fintech with 80 million customers globally, is launching a Euro stablecoin on Ethereum.
Welcome to @Ethereum, EURR.
Live on Ethereum on day 1
Revolut, a leading fintech with 80 million customers globally, is launching a Euro stablecoin on Ethereum.
Welcome to @Ethereum, EURR.