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$ETH floodgates are about to open. "If you could see what we’re seeing from the inside, you would be wildly bullish." Ex-BlackRock Joe Chalom and Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin on why Ethereum’s biggest move is still ahead. For years, $ETH has traded like a Bitcoin beta. But institutions are treating Ethereum like financial infrastructure. Stablecoins were the first real proof point of tokenization, and over 50% is happening on Ethereum. Solana has less than 1/10th of Ethereum’s stablecoin TVL and transaction volume. Tokenized assets? - BlackRock launched on $ETH - Robinhood is launching on $ETH - Governments are choosing $ETH - JPMorgan is tokenizing assets and deposits on $ETH DeFi pioneered on Ethereum. Now AI agents, x402, ERC-8004, and machine-to-machine payments could create a tidal wave of transaction volume. As Chalom puts it: "it’ll be very good at sucking up blockspace." Lubin on $ETH's endgame: Once DeFi feels safe enough, institutions and retail will realize they can "earn significant yield" in an appreciating currency instead of settling for lower yields in a debasing one. The $ETH supercycle is coming.

SamAlτcoin.eth ☀️

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DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

259,949 views • 1 year ago

BlackRock’s former Head of Crypto explains how he pitches ETH to Wall Street “The first thing we do is explain the Ethereum opportunity. Stablecoins, which are today about $310 billion, are going to trillions. Tokenized assets today are about $32 billion and going to trillions as well. Institutional DeFi adoption is happening like we’ve never seen before. We’ll get to agentic in a minute, but explaining to them — and they agree wholeheartedly — that the Ethereum ecosystem is going to be the future settlement layer for finance is the first step.” After explaining that Ethereum is going to be the global world ledger, Joseph Chalom, who is now the CEO of the $1.5 billion Ethereum treasury company Sharplink, talks about ETH the asset: “As the Ethereum ecosystem grows, you need more Ether to secure and settle these transactions. Therefore, Ether ends up becoming a trust commodity. We start with the principles and fundamentals . . . What we don’t do is make up numbers and talk about short-term price predictions for Ether.” The other thing Joseph does not do is compare Ether to Bitcoin. “The second narrative that people use typically is that [Ethereum] is ‘little brother’ to ‘big brother’ Bitcoin and that ETH is just some relative coefficient of the value of BTC and they need to trade together. What we’re trying to explain is that there is intrinsic value and Ether is going to be the trust commodity that is going to secure the future of finance . . . The number one thing to do is not make up numbers. And then number two, [Ethereum] is not a derivative of Bitcoin. It has intrinsic value to the future of the financial system.”
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BlackRock’s former Head of Crypto explains how he pitches ETH to Wall Street “The first thing we do is explain the Ethereum opportunity. Stablecoins, which are today about $310 billion, are going to trillions. Tokenized assets today are about $32 billion and going to trillions as well. Institutional DeFi adoption is happening like we’ve never seen before. We’ll get to agentic in a minute, but explaining to them — and they agree wholeheartedly — that the Ethereum ecosystem is going to be the future settlement layer for finance is the first step.” After explaining that Ethereum is going to be the global world ledger, Joseph Chalom, who is now the CEO of the $1.5 billion Ethereum treasury company Sharplink, talks about ETH the asset: “As the Ethereum ecosystem grows, you need more Ether to secure and settle these transactions. Therefore, Ether ends up becoming a trust commodity. We start with the principles and fundamentals . . . What we don’t do is make up numbers and talk about short-term price predictions for Ether.” The other thing Joseph does not do is compare Ether to Bitcoin. “The second narrative that people use typically is that [Ethereum] is ‘little brother’ to ‘big brother’ Bitcoin and that ETH is just some relative coefficient of the value of BTC and they need to trade together. What we’re trying to explain is that there is intrinsic value and Ether is going to be the trust commodity that is going to secure the future of finance . . . The number one thing to do is not make up numbers. And then number two, [Ethereum] is not a derivative of Bitcoin. It has intrinsic value to the future of the financial system.”

Etherealize

56,814 views • 5 months ago

Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calls Ethereum "The Toll Road to Tokenization" "What he meant by that is assets will be tokenized, people will transact, and then each of those transactions will pay a fee to the Ethereum network. Part of that fee will be burned and decrease the supply of ETH. The other part will be paid to stakers. So it's kind of like a toll road for anyone who wants to transact with tokenized assets." "The first example of product/market fit with tokenization was stablecoins. There are a lot of reasons why a tokenized dollar is better than one on fiat rails. But the big things are accessibility -- it gives people around the world who don't have access to the US financial system access to dollars -- and reducing the friction of settling those transactions. If you've had to send a wire or ACH transfer, it takes days. Stablecoins settle instantly, so it's way more efficient. You've even heard Jamie Dimon come around to the advantages of stablecoins." "Stablecoins are really just tokenized dollars, and then that's going to happen with almost every asset class. Stocks will be next. People are talking a bout tokenizing art and real estate. The theme is 'the tokenization of everything.' And as all of these assets move on chain because more people can access them and the friction of transacting with them is reduced, trillions of dollars of assets will move on-chain... and Ethereum will be the global settlement layer for all of those transactions, and all of those transactions will generate a fee to ETH holders, which is why your ETH will compound."
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Etherealize

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76,405 views • 1 month ago

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Etherealize

13,706 views • 5 months ago

Tom Lee says ethereum:native fundamentals are getting stronger, even if price hasn’t caught up yet. "We're in a period where price is lagging fundamentals." "Ethereum has gained additional assets." "More real world assets are being tokenized on Ethereum." "(Ethereum) is the most widely used blockchain." "At the center of why you wanna be involved in crypto is (it's) both the future of AI and Wall Street upping their tech stacks."
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Tom Lee says ethereum:native fundamentals are getting stronger, even if price hasn’t caught up yet. "We're in a period where price is lagging fundamentals." "Ethereum has gained additional assets." "More real world assets are being tokenized on Ethereum." "(Ethereum) is the most widely used blockchain." "At the center of why you wanna be involved in crypto is (it's) both the future of AI and Wall Street upping their tech stacks."

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121,332 views • 1 month ago

“There are two crypto assets worth more than $100 billion: BTC and ETH. In many ways, Ethereum is in a unique position. Ethereum has had a lot of success. The problem is, it had that success five years ago… so the market is saying “you won round one, but what’s round two?” So internally, our prompt has been “what does it take for ETH to become a trillion dollar asset?” There aren’t many individual trillion dollar assets on earth, so what does it take for ETH to be a trillion dollar asset? For Ethlabs, that will be one of our north stars. We’d be a bit full of ourselves if we came out and said that we had the answer today; it’s going to be a huge project for the entire community. But Ethlabs can act as the bridge. We can be the entity that goes and talks to the people that want to take on that mission. Then we can go and talk to the people that help steward Ethereum and work together to make that outcome happen.” — ansgar.eth talks Ethlabs and a trillion dollar Ethereum on Bankless.
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“There are two crypto assets worth more than $100 billion: BTC and ETH. In many ways, Ethereum is in a unique position. Ethereum has had a lot of success. The problem is, it had that success five years ago… so the market is saying “you won round one, but what’s round two?” So internally, our prompt has been “what does it take for ETH to become a trillion dollar asset?” There aren’t many individual trillion dollar assets on earth, so what does it take for ETH to be a trillion dollar asset? For Ethlabs, that will be one of our north stars. We’d be a bit full of ourselves if we came out and said that we had the answer today; it’s going to be a huge project for the entire community. But Ethlabs can act as the bridge. We can be the entity that goes and talks to the people that want to take on that mission. Then we can go and talk to the people that help steward Ethereum and work together to make that outcome happen.” — ansgar.eth talks Ethlabs and a trillion dollar Ethereum on Bankless.

dreamsofdefi

38,401 views • 1 month ago

Joseph Chalom explains why the ETH burn thesis isn't broken: "Mainnet is being built for the volume coming from tokenization, stablecoins, and agentic. 3x throughput increases. Reduced gas fees." "If it grows incrementally, you won't trigger the burn in a way that drives ETH up. We believe the step-function increases are coming." "10x, 20x, 50x transactions on Ethereum and L2s, you end up needing ETH as trustware to secure them. That is the thesis."
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Joseph Chalom explains why the ETH burn thesis isn't broken: "Mainnet is being built for the volume coming from tokenization, stablecoins, and agentic. 3x throughput increases. Reduced gas fees." "If it grows incrementally, you won't trigger the burn in a way that drives ETH up. We believe the step-function increases are coming." "10x, 20x, 50x transactions on Ethereum and L2s, you end up needing ETH as trustware to secure them. That is the thesis."

The Rollup

171,316 views • 3 months ago

🚨 HISTORIC MOMENT FOR ETHEREUM 🚨 Vivek Raman, CEO of Etherealize, just delivered a powerful testimony to Congress: ✅ Ethereum is the most secure + decentralized settlement layer ✅ $140B in stablecoins + $10B in tokenized assets ✅ Time to 100x innovation with the Clarity Act ✅ Real-time payroll, DeFi, tokenization — all happening on ETH “We are going to change history by embracing the next phase of the internet.” 📺 Watch it. Share it. Be proud. Ethereum is the future. 🧱🌐🔥
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🚨 HISTORIC MOMENT FOR ETHEREUM 🚨 Vivek Raman, CEO of Etherealize, just delivered a powerful testimony to Congress: ✅ Ethereum is the most secure + decentralized settlement layer ✅ $140B in stablecoins + $10B in tokenized assets ✅ Time to 100x innovation with the Clarity Act ✅ Real-time payroll, DeFi, tokenization — all happening on ETH “We are going to change history by embracing the next phase of the internet.” 📺 Watch it. Share it. Be proud. Ethereum is the future. 🧱🌐🔥

Leo Lanza | Lanza.eth

273,717 views • 1 year ago

Joseph Chalom explains why BlackRock launched BUIDL on Ethereum “I’m not a spokesman for Larry Fink, but he really evolved his thinking on Bitcoin, and I give him a lot of credit because there’s very few people in their 60s or 70s who have the humility to continue to be a student of the market and a student of technology. And he learned that it’s an incredible store of value and has a role in a portfolio.” “I think BlackRock and others believe even more strongly that tokenization will essentially lead to the democratization and digitization of all of finance. Crypto is a $2.4 trillion market. Total financial assets are over $700 trillion. Our clients wanted to know where we were going, and we led them along.” “We launched a token called BUIDL, which was a yield-bearing security on mainnet Ethereum that was interchangeable 24/7 with stablecoins and could be used as collateral in on-chain transactions. That became the largest tokenized fund in history — not because it was BlackRock, but because we provided real utility. The industry was missing real examples and use cases of utility, and we wanted our first foray into tokenization to be something that would break barriers and give clients more utility than what they had, which was that stablecoins were not earning yield.” BUIDL has grown to $2.5 billion, and BlackRock has since filed to launch two new tokenized money market funds on Ethereum. BSTBL brings the nearly $7 billion Select Treasury Liquidity Fund on-chain, with BNY Melon keeping the official shareholder registry on Ethereum in ERC-20 tokens. BRSRV is a new fund built for stablecoin reserves and the GENIUS Act-driven institutional demand for tokenized Treasury yield. Source: Thinking Crypto Podcast (Mar 2026)
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Joseph Chalom explains why BlackRock launched BUIDL on Ethereum “I’m not a spokesman for Larry Fink, but he really evolved his thinking on Bitcoin, and I give him a lot of credit because there’s very few people in their 60s or 70s who have the humility to continue to be a student of the market and a student of technology. And he learned that it’s an incredible store of value and has a role in a portfolio.” “I think BlackRock and others believe even more strongly that tokenization will essentially lead to the democratization and digitization of all of finance. Crypto is a $2.4 trillion market. Total financial assets are over $700 trillion. Our clients wanted to know where we were going, and we led them along.” “We launched a token called BUIDL, which was a yield-bearing security on mainnet Ethereum that was interchangeable 24/7 with stablecoins and could be used as collateral in on-chain transactions. That became the largest tokenized fund in history — not because it was BlackRock, but because we provided real utility. The industry was missing real examples and use cases of utility, and we wanted our first foray into tokenization to be something that would break barriers and give clients more utility than what they had, which was that stablecoins were not earning yield.” BUIDL has grown to $2.5 billion, and BlackRock has since filed to launch two new tokenized money market funds on Ethereum. BSTBL brings the nearly $7 billion Select Treasury Liquidity Fund on-chain, with BNY Melon keeping the official shareholder registry on Ethereum in ERC-20 tokens. BRSRV is a new fund built for stablecoin reserves and the GENIUS Act-driven institutional demand for tokenized Treasury yield. Source: Thinking Crypto Podcast (Mar 2026)

Etherealize

49,244 views • 2 months ago

🔥 CATHIE WOOD IS ALL IN ON ETH 🔥 On CoinDesk today, Cathie Wood laid out why Ethereum is becoming the institutional protocol: - Coinbase L2 = Ethereum - Robinhood L2 = Ethereum - Stablecoin boom is mostly happening on Ethereum - $ETH treasuries offer utility and staking unlike Bitcoin treasuries - “We had a thesis Ethereum would be the institutional protocol” - now it’s playing out in real time - Ethereum might be higher cost and a little slower, but it’s decentralized more secure - First time ARK ETFs have be able to take a solid position in ETH - ARK invested in Tom Lee’s $BMNR, the largest ETH treasury in the world The foundation of the next financial system is being laid out in real time And it’s all on Ethereum ⟠
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🔥 CATHIE WOOD IS ALL IN ON ETH 🔥 On CoinDesk today, Cathie Wood laid out why Ethereum is becoming the institutional protocol: - Coinbase L2 = Ethereum - Robinhood L2 = Ethereum - Stablecoin boom is mostly happening on Ethereum - $ETH treasuries offer utility and staking unlike Bitcoin treasuries - “We had a thesis Ethereum would be the institutional protocol” - now it’s playing out in real time - Ethereum might be higher cost and a little slower, but it’s decentralized more secure - First time ARK ETFs have be able to take a solid position in ETH - ARK invested in Tom Lee’s $BMNR, the largest ETH treasury in the world The foundation of the next financial system is being laid out in real time And it’s all on Ethereum ⟠

Crypto-Gucci.eth ᵍᵐ🦇🔊

467,850 views • 1 year ago

.Justin Drake: "I don't see how ETH could not flip BTC" Justin is asked: What's Ethereum? Is it a settlement layer? A world computer? Monetary network? He responds: "For me, this hasn't changed for many years. Ethereum is the Internet of Value." "In order to be successful as the Internet of Value you need very good money at the center of it because that will be the substrate -- the economic bandwidth -- that will allow you to build a lot of services (e.g. loans, stablecoins)." "In some sense, the success of the platform and the success of the money are tied at the hip. This is why I think those who are pushing for ETH as money are really helping the platform and vice versa -- those who are helping the platform are helping with ETH the money." "One of my theses is that we'll have winner-takes-most platforms. There's only one Internet. There's only going to be one Internet of Value that captures 90-99% of all economic activity. And just for weird, path-dependent reasons, we have Bitcoin that is the largest money right now. But I think this is a highly-unstable equilibrium for multiple reasons. And I think the best candidate to win the Internet of Value is by far Ethereum." Fede’s intern 🥊 adds to this point, "I was never convinced there was a chance of [Ethereum flipping Bitcoin] to be honest. But I'm getting convinced there's a high probability -- you [Justin] have played a part in convincing me because of the issuance (declining block subsidy) and now the post-quantum. I do think there's a high chance that ETH becomes the dominant economic substrate in the long-term. I don't see how proof-of-work could work long-term." Justin echoes this: "Unless there's some catastrophic failure of Ethereum, I don't see how Ethereum could not flip Bitcoin." Source: Blockspace Forum Read our thesis on why ETH is better money than BTC below 👇
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.Justin Drake: "I don't see how ETH could not flip BTC" Justin is asked: What's Ethereum? Is it a settlement layer? A world computer? Monetary network? He responds: "For me, this hasn't changed for many years. Ethereum is the Internet of Value." "In order to be successful as the Internet of Value you need very good money at the center of it because that will be the substrate -- the economic bandwidth -- that will allow you to build a lot of services (e.g. loans, stablecoins)." "In some sense, the success of the platform and the success of the money are tied at the hip. This is why I think those who are pushing for ETH as money are really helping the platform and vice versa -- those who are helping the platform are helping with ETH the money." "One of my theses is that we'll have winner-takes-most platforms. There's only one Internet. There's only going to be one Internet of Value that captures 90-99% of all economic activity. And just for weird, path-dependent reasons, we have Bitcoin that is the largest money right now. But I think this is a highly-unstable equilibrium for multiple reasons. And I think the best candidate to win the Internet of Value is by far Ethereum." Fede’s intern 🥊 adds to this point, "I was never convinced there was a chance of [Ethereum flipping Bitcoin] to be honest. But I'm getting convinced there's a high probability -- you [Justin] have played a part in convincing me because of the issuance (declining block subsidy) and now the post-quantum. I do think there's a high chance that ETH becomes the dominant economic substrate in the long-term. I don't see how proof-of-work could work long-term." Justin echoes this: "Unless there's some catastrophic failure of Ethereum, I don't see how Ethereum could not flip Bitcoin." Source: Blockspace Forum Read our thesis on why ETH is better money than BTC below 👇

Etherealize

170,819 views • 4 months ago

Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calls Ethereum “the toll road to tokenization” “In Davos, my old boss Larry Fink had a great slide when he was talking about the future of finance that said, ‘Ethereum is the toll road to tokenization.’” BlackRock’s former Head of Crypto Joseph Chalom explains: “There’s a recognition from the largest, most sophisticated institutions in the world that Ethereum is going to be the global financial ledger because it has the trust, liquidity and security.” Asked if there’s a role for more centralized L1 blockchains, Joseph replies: “I do think there will be roles for other L1s — I think they’ll be specialized. Solana does an amazing job on meme coins, altcoins, and gaming, and there may be use cases. But if you look where the largest financial institutions in the world are building their money market funds, trading applications — Robinhood, Coinbase — it’s on Ethereum. I’m not here to FUD others. I think the Solana Foundation did a great job over the past several years when there was a bit of a gap in the Ethereum narrative and leadership to steal some of that marketing thunder. But marketing thunder is not real world use cases.”
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Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calls Ethereum “the toll road to tokenization” “In Davos, my old boss Larry Fink had a great slide when he was talking about the future of finance that said, ‘Ethereum is the toll road to tokenization.’” BlackRock’s former Head of Crypto Joseph Chalom explains: “There’s a recognition from the largest, most sophisticated institutions in the world that Ethereum is going to be the global financial ledger because it has the trust, liquidity and security.” Asked if there’s a role for more centralized L1 blockchains, Joseph replies: “I do think there will be roles for other L1s — I think they’ll be specialized. Solana does an amazing job on meme coins, altcoins, and gaming, and there may be use cases. But if you look where the largest financial institutions in the world are building their money market funds, trading applications — Robinhood, Coinbase — it’s on Ethereum. I’m not here to FUD others. I think the Solana Foundation did a great job over the past several years when there was a bit of a gap in the Ethereum narrative and leadership to steal some of that marketing thunder. But marketing thunder is not real world use cases.”

Etherealize

22,603 views • 5 months ago

Will tokenized assets flip crypto-native assets in DeFi? Robert Leshner says yes, and I agree. It's now inevitable, just a matter of when. $700 trillion is waiting offchain to become TVL. Can't imagine not being bullish on DeFi or the #1 chain hosting >50% of DeFi, Ethereum 🫡
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Will tokenized assets flip crypto-native assets in DeFi? Robert Leshner says yes, and I agree. It's now inevitable, just a matter of when. $700 trillion is waiting offchain to become TVL. Can't imagine not being bullish on DeFi or the #1 chain hosting >50% of DeFi, Ethereum 🫡

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

13,522 views • 2 months ago

Tomorrow, we publish a new The Edge Podcast with Robinhood GM of Crypto, Johann Kerbrat. This clip might be the clearest articulation I’ve ever heard on why Ethereum's roadmap is working, and why Robinhood chose to build its own L2 using Arbitrum. + Ethereum offers security, with proven decentralization + New L1s = centralized databases + EVM liquidity is essential for tokenized stocks & RWAs + Arbitrum’s tech stack wins on engineering merit No edits. No spin. Just a major U.S. fintech explaining why they’re building the future of finance on Ethereum. Real validation for those of us who are long term Ethereum/ETH investors. Here is the clip and transcript for Johann answering why Robinhood chose to build its own Ethereum L2: "You see a lot of companies right now building their own L1. And for us, we felt excited about this idea where we can control anything that we want to build and we don't have to deal with any other chain to talk to or anything like that. But at the same time, creating the security of a real proper decentralized chain is extremely difficult, as you know. And we basically get that for free with Ethereum. The network has been going on for a very long time now and the security is stable and it's decentralized. And I think that's really the key two points that we wanted to have. When you look at some of these new L1s that are being created, it's not really decentralized and it's not really secure. So at the end of the day, you're basically having like a... fancy database that is probably a bit slower to use than an actual database. And so we didn't really see the value in that. With Ethereum, we get the security by default. The second thing that we get by having an L2 is that you get all this liquidity that is already part of all the EVM compatible chains. And that was also a very important decision factor for us. If we really want to bring the stock market onto the chain, we need to have this liquidity. It's not going to be possible if it's in a closed loop or in a closed chain that nobody can access and you need to have like 20 different hoops before you can bridge to that chain. So for us, that was kind of the two elements that we really wanted to focus on and that's why we decided on building on Ethereum. And then we decided on Arbitrum mostly because we love the technology. There's a few things that we are excited about. For example, Stylus. It's a way that we can basically use different language into the chain and we can build on top of that. We also like the way that they prioritize transactions that is, we think, a better way than some of the competition. And so basically we'll use the Arbitrum stack and we'll create our own L2, which will make us also compatible with all the Arbitrum chains. And so we think it's kind of the best of all the worlds. But for us, the idea is like we will start with public stock, and then we think that we can tokenize anything really, not just stocks. It can be private stock, it can be art, it can be real estate, whatever you want to think of. And so we really wanted to have a platform that is kind of easy to build on and we can keep adding on it. At the same time, we know that regulation are going to be hard on some of these products, especially when it comes to financial products. You always have different regulators. You have different rules depending on the region. If you're in the EU versus the US versus LATAM. And so we felt like we wanted to have our own layer that we could customize for these needs. And then anyone that is building on the chain will also be able to benefit from what we are building, versus just putting everything in a contract that will be just good for the people that are using the Robinhood contracts. But so at this point, we announced the chain in June. We are in private test right now, and then we'll do more announcements in the future." Subscribe for the full episode tomorrow! ► Newsletter: ► Spotify: ► Apple: ► Youtube: ► Pods:
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Tomorrow, we publish a new The Edge Podcast with Robinhood GM of Crypto, Johann Kerbrat. This clip might be the clearest articulation I’ve ever heard on why Ethereum's roadmap is working, and why Robinhood chose to build its own L2 using Arbitrum. + Ethereum offers security, with proven decentralization + New L1s = centralized databases + EVM liquidity is essential for tokenized stocks & RWAs + Arbitrum’s tech stack wins on engineering merit No edits. No spin. Just a major U.S. fintech explaining why they’re building the future of finance on Ethereum. Real validation for those of us who are long term Ethereum/ETH investors. Here is the clip and transcript for Johann answering why Robinhood chose to build its own Ethereum L2: "You see a lot of companies right now building their own L1. And for us, we felt excited about this idea where we can control anything that we want to build and we don't have to deal with any other chain to talk to or anything like that. But at the same time, creating the security of a real proper decentralized chain is extremely difficult, as you know. And we basically get that for free with Ethereum. The network has been going on for a very long time now and the security is stable and it's decentralized. And I think that's really the key two points that we wanted to have. When you look at some of these new L1s that are being created, it's not really decentralized and it's not really secure. So at the end of the day, you're basically having like a... fancy database that is probably a bit slower to use than an actual database. And so we didn't really see the value in that. With Ethereum, we get the security by default. The second thing that we get by having an L2 is that you get all this liquidity that is already part of all the EVM compatible chains. And that was also a very important decision factor for us. If we really want to bring the stock market onto the chain, we need to have this liquidity. It's not going to be possible if it's in a closed loop or in a closed chain that nobody can access and you need to have like 20 different hoops before you can bridge to that chain. So for us, that was kind of the two elements that we really wanted to focus on and that's why we decided on building on Ethereum. And then we decided on Arbitrum mostly because we love the technology. There's a few things that we are excited about. For example, Stylus. It's a way that we can basically use different language into the chain and we can build on top of that. We also like the way that they prioritize transactions that is, we think, a better way than some of the competition. And so basically we'll use the Arbitrum stack and we'll create our own L2, which will make us also compatible with all the Arbitrum chains. And so we think it's kind of the best of all the worlds. But for us, the idea is like we will start with public stock, and then we think that we can tokenize anything really, not just stocks. It can be private stock, it can be art, it can be real estate, whatever you want to think of. And so we really wanted to have a platform that is kind of easy to build on and we can keep adding on it. At the same time, we know that regulation are going to be hard on some of these products, especially when it comes to financial products. You always have different regulators. You have different rules depending on the region. If you're in the EU versus the US versus LATAM. And so we felt like we wanted to have our own layer that we could customize for these needs. And then anyone that is building on the chain will also be able to benefit from what we are building, versus just putting everything in a contract that will be just good for the people that are using the Robinhood contracts. But so at this point, we announced the chain in June. We are in private test right now, and then we'll do more announcements in the future." Subscribe for the full episode tomorrow! ► Newsletter: ► Spotify: ► Apple: ► Youtube: ► Pods:

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

62,600 views • 8 months ago

Buddha says Collector Crypt has $30M in tokenized assets and its $CARDS token is backed by real revenue "The cards token is going to represent the entire amount of tokenized assets that we have on chain. It's going to represent the success of the business. I think we've got $30 million dollars in tokenized assets and counting" "Our CEO has talked about buybacks a number of times. I think they're certainly necessary and they are going to be. They're planned and they are going to be executed well in advance of anyone announcing that we're doing buybacks. Of course we're not here to give anyone a leg up on the token or anything. We prefer to acquire it at a bit of a lower price."
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Buddha says Collector Crypt has $30M in tokenized assets and its $CARDS token is backed by real revenue "The cards token is going to represent the entire amount of tokenized assets that we have on chain. It's going to represent the success of the business. I think we've got $30 million dollars in tokenized assets and counting" "Our CEO has talked about buybacks a number of times. I think they're certainly necessary and they are going to be. They're planned and they are going to be executed well in advance of anyone announcing that we're doing buybacks. Of course we're not here to give anyone a leg up on the token or anything. We prefer to acquire it at a bit of a lower price."

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14,949 views • 3 months ago