Ethereum, the pioneering blockchain platform, marked its 10th anniversary on July 30 with a series of global community events organized by the Ethereum Foundation.
Why it matters: Ethereum’s ability to digitize trust and enable the industrialization of trust through its “Trustware” infrastructure has been a key factor in its success, supporting over 50% of non-Bitcoin digital assets.
The details:
- Ethereum supports 60% of stablecoins, 60% of decentralized financial capital, and 80% of tokenized real-world assets such as stocks, money market funds, and bonds.
- The platform’s breakthrough in digital trust has enabled financial transaction verification to achieve significant improvements in speed, cost, security, and scale.
- Ethereum has demonstrated its ability to adapt and evolve without any downtime through complex upgrades such as the Merge and Dencun.
- The platform’s economic security is bolstered by over $100 billion in staked capital and over 1 million validators.
Ethereum’s global neutrality and decentralization are noteworthy, with more than 1 million validator nodes spread across more than 80 countries and more than 67% of nodes running outside the United States.
Institutional adoption:
- Global institutions have begun to use Ethereum for tokenized assets, payments, and private equity investments.
- The total amount of tokenized real-world assets on Ethereum has exceeded $13 billion, with a monthly growth rate of 6.75%.
The future: The convergence of AI and blockchain has created an unprecedented need for trustless infrastructure, and Ethereum is the only infrastructure ready for an economic environment that requires algorithms to trust each other.
The investment case: For institutions, holding Ether (ETH) means owning the digital economy infrastructure at a price far below its ultimate value, combining the properties of commodities, currencies, and capital assets into a unique and attractive asset.