Ethereum for Institutions | The Institutional Liquidity Layer

Ethereum is the Backbone of the Onchain Economy

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0.0 Yrs

Uninterrupted uptime and liveness

$0B

Total value securing the network (35.6M ETH)

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Stablecoin TVL
57%+ of global supply

$0.0B

DeFi TVL
66%+ of all blockchains

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24-Hour DEX volume
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Institutional Use Cases

Explore Ethereum's digital asset landscape, from tokens to technologies

RWAs & Stablecoins

Real-world assets tokenize offchain assets, like real estate, commodities, or bonds, while stablecoins design for steady value, often pegged to assets like USD.

Decentralized Finance

Open financial systems built on smart contracts instead of banks. DeFi lets anyone lend, borrow, trade, and earn yield directly from their wallet.

Privacy & Compliance

Deploy on Ethereum's public Mainnet for global transparency, or use enterprise-grade privacy solutions for confidentiality and control.

L2 Ecosystem

Layer 2 networks scale Ethereum by processing transactions faster and cheaper.

Ethereum Leads Where It Matters

Resilience

Ethereum has maintained 10 years of uninterrupted uptime and liveness since its launch. Zero downtime through 15+ successful network upgrades.

Flexibility

Open source, with complete freedom from lock-in to any single vendor, stack, or architecture. Institutions retain full optionality for their onchain products as business requirements change.

Credible Neutrality

No single point of failure, no central coordinator, no pause button, no counterparty risk. Resilient to geopolitical, regulatory, and infrastructure-level risks.

Decentralization

Secured by 980K+ validators distributed across geographies and client implementations. 106ドルB+ in economic security makes Ethereum the most expensive smart contract platform to attack.

Deep Liquidity

2ドル.62B+ in daily DEX volume, the deepest liquidity of any onchain environment. Ethereum is the chosen liquidity layer for institutions to build leading next-gen products.

Tokenization

The leading platform for asset tokenization, with 4.1% of all onchain RWAs deployed on Ethereum and its L2s, and 186ドルB in stablecoin TVL.

Market-Proven Platform

Institutions innovate on Ethereum

BlackRock

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Onchain Tokenization via Securitize

744ドルM+ AUM

Coinbase

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Base Layer 2 Ecosystem

11ドル.9B TVL

Visa

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Stablecoin Payment Settlement

1ドルB+ Annual Stablecoin Volume

eToro

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Stock Tokenization Platform

100 Stocks Trade 24/5

Industry Leaders Choose Ethereum

I think tokenised real-world assets will grow from 34ドルbn today to 300ドルbn over the next 12 months. All of this growth will happen on Ethereum because TradFi trusts Ethereum.

It is irrelevant that other chains are faster or cheaper. Ethereum has been around for over 10 years and has never gone down. For TradFi, trustworthiness trumps marginal speed and cost savings every day of the week.

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Geoffrey Kendrick

Global Head of Digital Assets Research @ Standard Chartered

Saying Ethereum is the wrong blockchain because it has high gas fees is like saying Amazon shouldn't use the internet because dial-up was slow in 1995.

Banks aren't building on 2015 Ethereum, they're using today's Ethereum stack with tomorrows upgrades.

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Tom Zschach

CIO @ SWIFT

There was no question that the blockchain that we would start our tokenization on was on Ethereum.

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Robert Mitchnick

Head of Digital Assets @ BlackRock

I believe tokenization is the greatest capital markets innovation since the central limit order book.

The Robinhood Chain is the first Ethereum Layer 2 optimized for real-world assets.

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Vlad Tenev

CEO @ Robinhood

Ethereum is Scaling

Ethereum's performance isn't static. The network's active R&D roadmap sets the stage for an infinitely-scalable ecosystem, while Ethereum-based providers globally push throughput boundaries today.

Raising mainnet gas limit to 100M/block rapidly increases mainnet TPS

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PeerDAS data availability sampling scales blob capacity, multiplying L2 TPS

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History expiry prunes storage to keep node performance comfortable at scale

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The Institutional Liquidity Layer

Ethereum is the Backbone of the Onchain Economy

Institutional Use Cases

RWAs & Stablecoins

Decentralized Finance

Privacy & Compliance

L2 Ecosystem

Ethereum Leads Where It Matters

Resilience

Flexibility

Credible Neutrality

Decentralization

Deep Liquidity

Tokenization

Market-Proven Platform

BlackRock

Coinbase

Visa

eToro

Industry Leaders Choose Ethereum

Ethereum is Scaling

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