Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum @ethereuminsti
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Incredibly grateful for all the support from the ecosystem. Looking forward to continuing to work closely with each team!
1/ We’re excited to announce the close of @ethereuminsti's initial ecosystem funding round and supporter coalition, with broad participation and support from individuals and entities focused on driving institutional adoption of @ethereum.
Our ecosystem funding round is anchored by @BitMNR, @Sharplink, Ethereum co‑founders @ethereumJoseph , and @MihaiAlisie, alongside a larger group of individuals and crypto‑native institutions.
Adoption is accelerating, that’s for sure
Institutions are coming to Ethereum. ETH's price just hasn't caught up yet
@davidduong, new head of US at Ethereum Institutional:
"The price follows the usage with a bit of a lag"
"Ethereum is now where everyone's coming to shop"
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Formal verification used to be hard, no more, now smartcontracts and codebases can be much safer. Looking forward to utilizing this for @puffer_unifi
New on our Frontier Red Team blog: using Claude to formally verify software at large scale.
Formal verification can prove that code is free of certain bugs, but historically it has only been feasible for small codebases (or required a lot of expert time).
With AI models, however, this is beginning to change. In collaboration with @theoremlabs, we used Claude to prove security properties in over one hundred real-world open-source libraries over the span of a few weeks.
Read our research in full here: anthropic.com/research/forma…
Ethereum
What institutional use case for Ethereum is the market still underestimating?
We asked Franklin Templeton, BlackRock and Ethereum Institutional at Ethereum Korea One.
@FranklnTempletn: securities fully tokenized onchain, rebuilding how alternative funds, private credit and private equity are packaged. "A game changer three years out."
@ethereuminsti: the idea that all chains are the same. As adoption grows, Ethereum and its L2s will prove the guarantees institutions need.
Korean brokerages are already moving toward the first one.
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Three Korean securities firms have signed with @Optimism since July: DB, KB, and now Meritz.
Each came in through a different door:
→ DB: a regional STO platform with Jeju
→ KB: tokenized MMFs alongside Securitize
→ Meritz: issuing, settling and distributing tokenized Korean securities
Korean brokerages are no longer asking whether to go onchain. They're asking which part of the value chain to own.
Meritz and Optimism first met at a private dinner we hosted on July 21. Three months later to the day, an MOU.
Glad to have been in the room 🇰🇷
Meritz Securities, one of Korea’s largest brokerages, has signed an MOU with @Optimism to explore issuing, settling and distributing tokenized Korean securities on the OP Stack.
That makes three Korean securities firms exploring the OP Stack since July:
→ DB Securities
→ KB Securities
→ Meritz Securities
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
Looking forward to moderating this one
Oli Harris, Global Head of Kinexys by @jpmorgan, will join us at the Ethereum Institutional Forum in Singapore on 20 November.
@olijhw's fireside session, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan: Institutional Onchain Infrastructure, covers J.P. Morgan’s decade in blockchain, from its early Ethereum-based work to Kinexys today, and the infrastructure institutions need on public networks.
Kinexys is built on Ethereum Virtual Machine technology and has processed over $4 trillion in cumulative transactions.
Attendance is by invitation and application only.
Sign up below↓
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Meritz Securities, one of Korea’s largest brokerages, has signed an MOU with @Optimism to explore issuing, settling and distributing tokenized Korean securities on the OP Stack.
That makes three Korean securities firms exploring the OP Stack since July:
→ DB Securities
→ KB Securities
→ Meritz Securities
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
Matthew retweeted
Ethereum Institutionalが、東京を拠点に活動するAPACリード（アジア太平洋地域責任者）を募集しています🇯🇵
彼らと一緒に仕事できるのはとても良い機会だと思います、ご興味ある方は是非!!
A crucial role and opportunity to lead in a critical market. Please apply and reach out!
🇯🇵 Ethereum Institutionalは、東京を拠点に活動するAPACリード（アジア太平洋地域責任者）を募集しています。
本ポジションでは、日本の銀行、金融市場インフラを担う企業・機関、資産運用会社との関係構築や、金融機関・機関投資家向けの意見交換会・説明会の企画・運営を担っていただきます。次世代の金融サービスを支える基盤としてEthereumの導入を推進していただきます。
求める経験・スキル：
→ 金融業界（銀行、資産運用、資本市場、決済、金融インフラ）での5〜7年の実務経験
→ ビジネスレベルの日本語・英語力（両言語で円滑に業務を遂行できること）
→ デジタル資産分野での実務経験（特に、金融機関・機関投資家向けのプロダクトやパートナーシップ関連業務の経験を歓迎）
→ 日本の金融機関・機関投資家との間で築いてきた幅広いネットワーク
Welcome to the team!
Excited to welcome Ben Thalman as Research Lead at @ethereuminsti , based in Toronto.
Ben brings 15 years across digital assets and traditional asset management, most recently as Staff Protocol Analyst and Ethereum PM at Figment, and before that a decade at Cidel, a private bank, researching securities, trading and managing portfolios. He’ll lead the research that gives institutions a clear, independent view of what’s being built on Ethereum and why it matters.
Welcome to the team, Ben!
Matthew retweeted
Just published: were looking for someone to lead go-to-market efforts in Japan. Apply below!
ethereuminstitutional.org/ca…
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This is the key nugget in the release, coming from JP Morgan. It explains why they are committed to Ethereum, the only credibly neutral, programmable public chain with sufficient liquidity and assets to make it viable for institutional usage.
“Ethereum's established depth of onchain liquidity and tokenized assets makes it a natural next public blockchain for JPM Coin.”
We're delighted to see J.P. Morgan Payments bring JPM Coin to Ethereum. It builds on a clear trajectory: JPM Coin is already live on Base, J.P. Morgan Asset Management has tokenized money market funds on Ethereum, and the Kinexys platform itself is built on Ethereum Virtual Machine technology. J.P. Morgan Payments’ choice reflects what Ethereum uniquely offers institutions: unmatched liquidity depth, tokenized assets, applications, and security as the most proven public blockchain. It's a clear signal that institutional finance is moving onto public, verifiable infrastructure.
They’re already here!
What does it take to bring institutions onto Ethereum?
@ismimatthew, co-founder of @ethereuminsti, joins Open Interest to discuss the path ahead.
Recorded in Singapore during TOKEN2049. Full conversation coming soon.
Matthew retweeted
What does it take to bring institutions onto Ethereum?
@ismimatthew, co-founder of @ethereuminsti, joins Open Interest to discuss the path ahead.
Recorded in Singapore during TOKEN2049. Full conversation coming soon.
Matthew retweeted
Excited to welcome @DavidDuong as Head of US at Ethereum Institutional, based in NYC.
David brings 20+ years in institutional markets research, most recently as Global Head of Investment Research at @coinbase, where he led crypto research for the exchange’s institutional clients, covering economic insights, valuation models and market structure.
Before that he spent 17 years in sell-side macro strategy at HSBC, Santander and Deutsche Bank, heading Latin America FX strategy and covering EM rates and sovereign debt.
He’ll lead our engagement with US institutions as they build on Ethereum.
Welcome to the team, David!
We're delighted to see J.P. Morgan Payments bring JPM Coin to Ethereum. It builds on a clear trajectory: JPM Coin is already live on Base, J.P. Morgan Asset Management has tokenized money market funds on Ethereum, and the Kinexys platform itself is built on Ethereum Virtual Machine technology. J.P. Morgan Payments’ choice reflects what Ethereum uniquely offers institutions: unmatched liquidity depth, tokenized assets, applications, and security as the most proven public blockchain. It's a clear signal that institutional finance is moving onto public, verifiable infrastructure.
J.P. Morgan now has three tokenized products live on Ethereum mainnet.
→ JPMD, the USD deposit token, on Ethereum and Base
→ MONY, tokenized money market fund
→ JLTXX, tokenized money market fund
From the @jpmorgan product announcement:
“Ethereum’s established depth of onchain liquidity and tokenized assets makes it a natural next public blockchain for JPM Coin. Institutional clients can now move money quickly, easily and securely on Ethereum in addition to Base, the Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain... JPM Coin joins a growing set of J.P. Morgan tokenized offerings on Ethereum...”
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
Matthew retweeted
JPM Coin is now live on Ethereum mainnet for institutional clients. Another meaningful step for institutional finance on public infrastructure!
News: JPM Coin (JPMD), @jpmorgan's USD deposit token, is now live on @ethereum.
JPMD extends from Base to Ethereum L1, giving institutional clients native onchain cash that sits alongside the assets, collateral and counterparties they transact with already.
J.P. Morgan has now added a cash leg to the products it already live on Ethereum mainnet, with tokenized money market funds MONY and JLTXX both already on the network.
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
JPMD on Ethereum
News: JPM Coin (JPMD), @jpmorgan's USD deposit token, is now live on @ethereum.
JPMD extends from Base to Ethereum L1, giving institutional clients native onchain cash that sits alongside the assets, collateral and counterparties they transact with already.
J.P. Morgan has now added a cash leg to the products it already live on Ethereum mainnet, with tokenized money market funds MONY and JLTXX both already on the network.
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
Matthew retweeted
Charles Schwab has completed its rollout of direct ethereum:native trading.
All clients can now access Schwab Crypto, CEO Rick Wurster said at the firm’s Fall Business Update yesterday. Clients can also begin transferring existing crypto holdings in.
@CharlesSchwab at a glance:
→ $13.33 trillion in client assets as of 30 September
→ 40.26 million active brokerage accounts
ETH is one of only two assets Schwab chose to open with, along with Bitcoin.
Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.
