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Etherealize launched just 24 hours ago The response from the ETH and TradFi ecosystems has been nothing short of incredible Players from the Ethereum app layer, the infra layers, the L2s, and from all parts of Wall St reached out — and want to help It’s truly inspiring (1/2)
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INTRODUCING ETHEREALIZE An institutional marketing and product arm for the @ethereum ecosystem Our goal? To accelerate adoption by bringing institutions to Ethereum: the digital economy of tomorrow All roads flow through ETH. We’ll show the world why Here’s our plan: (1/7)
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ETHEREUM’S RECENT WINS: - Trump bought $47mm ETH and a basket of tokens mostly issued on ETH (Trump’s WBTC settles on Ethereum — the future utility layer for the Bitcoin network) - Trump staked his ETH with Lido - The EF allocated 50k ETH for use DeFi - Coinbase’s new BTC borrow product uses an Ethereum app, an ETH L2, and an ERC-20 as the back end (Coinbase’s cbBTC settles on Ethereum — the future utility layer for the Bitcoin network) ***Ethereum is proving to be the digital economy for institutional finance… where (staked) ETH is used as the predominant store of value*** All roads flow through ETH.
To commemorate the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States, $WLFI is proud to announce the following strategic purchases today: $47,000,000 ETH $47,000,000 wBTC $4,700,000 Aave $4,700,000 LINK $4,700,000 TRX $4,700,000 ENA Excited for the future ahead!
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2024 was the year everything changed for Ethereum ETH achieved regulatory acceptance, scaling, and a spark of institutional adoption The war against ETH is now over… …meaning it’s time for ETH to go to war 5 catalysts for why ETH will win in 2025: (0/6)
2024 was indeed the perfect storm of fundamental catalysts for Ethereum Rumors of ETH’s death were greatly exaggerated. In fact, the only recurring complaint was that ETH price was “only” up ~50% Zooming out, let’s reflect on 5 unbelievable developments for ETH in 2024: (1/8)
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Saylor is pivoting from a zero sum Bitcoin-maxi future to a positive sum future where we see an Ethereum Renaissance This opens the door for a corporate ETH treasury playbook to complement MSTR’s BTC strategy The spotlight will shift to ETH in 2025 🚀 coinpedia.org/news/bitcoin-a…
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2024 was indeed the perfect storm of fundamental catalysts for Ethereum Rumors of ETH’s death were greatly exaggerated. In fact, the only recurring complaint was that ETH price was “only” up ~50% Zooming out, let’s reflect on 5 unbelievable developments for ETH in 2024: (1/8)
We are about to see the perfect storm of upside catalysts for ETH In hindsight, the second half of 2024 will be the most obvious bullish setup for the Ethereum ecosystem in recent history Three headwinds that have held ETH back will become tailwinds, starting this week: (1/9)
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Coinbase is one of the biggest drivers for the crypto renaissance And Base is largely possible (from a regulatory perspective) because it is built as an Ethereum L2 Ethereum is the most secure, open, reliable blockchain economy (Though many are incentivized against saying it)
Coinbase, a publicly traded business in the US, seems to have pulled off the impossible — they built a blockchain that is being widely adopted although they were under intense regulatory scrutiny. $COIN
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One of the bigger Ethereum catalysts for 2025: **Staked ETH ETFs will come quickly, before any new crypto ETFs are approved** This makes it ~6x more profitable for asset managers to focus their growth on ETH ETFs than BTC ETFs! Here’s the math: (1/5) coinage.media/s3/sec-commiss…
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Ethereum institutional adoption update: 1. Deutsche Bank is launching an L2 to compliantly switch on public blockchain connectivity (via @zksync) 2. Hashkey is launching an L2 on ETH (via @Optimism) L2s are the optimal way to scale Ethereum. theblock.co/post/331401/hash…
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Replying to @stonychambers
Appreciate the debate, and your points are interesting. My thoughts: > What will the US use ETH for? Staking? Why would they stake if they already print money for free? Yes as a store of value (alongside btc) and for staking - it’s a whole new uncorrelated source of yield. See below. > ETH is definitely going to lose to BTC and gold in the monetary competition, so it’s not helpful for the currency. That’s the assumption you’re basing this argument on. It’s a bold assumption for an asset that’s 15 years old vs its competitor that’s 9 years old. I’d think it’s a bit early to be declaring victor. Hence the diversification. > What is the purpose? You use the word "strategic" -- why is ETH strategic? BTC is gold. It crossed the chasm. Happy about that. There’s a whole global digital economy that runs on ETH. It’s the home of $110bn in stablecoins, real world assets, and trillions in trading. Ethereum is distribution rails for the dollar. It’s the basis for a new potential bond market. It’s a new internet with money baked into it. How is that not strategic for the US to have a stake in it? > All crypto is not the same. It's not about "diversification". Bitcoin is the only crypto that can be money. The market has made this abundantly clear. This is where we’ll disagree and it’s why two-sided markets exist - you think BTC is the only crypto that can be money. My bet is ETH will be considered money soon too. See my thread below. Ultimately, I haven’t pointed out btc’s flaws, but since I now have to broach that - BTC is very centralized via mining (which is centralizing even more in the arms race for power); mining can be as “controlled by the US” as you say ETH can, and BTC has only “won” (on price, not economic activity) because one company has been buying it via a capital markets loophole like a drunken sailor. Point is - both assets have strengths, but BTC has weaknesses just like ETH does. The US isn’t supposed to pick winners. Diversification in a crypto strategic reserve for a nascent new industry seems prudent to me.
***WHAT IS ETH?*** Here’s an explainer for the institutional crowd: We know what a US treasury is: the de-facto store of value in the US economy. Now imagine a US treasury bond - but it captures upside from the US economy doing well. That’s ETH. (1/3)
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**A US STRATEGIC CRYPTO RESERVE WILL LIKELY INCLUDE ETHEREUM** There is mounting evidence that a national strategic crypto reserve will include ETH in addition to BTC as its core holdings Here’s why: (1/9)
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***WHAT IS ETH?*** Here’s an explainer for the institutional crowd: We know what a US treasury is: the de-facto store of value in the US economy. Now imagine a US treasury bond - but it captures upside from the US economy doing well. That’s ETH. (1/3)
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Some constructive stats about the ETH ETFs over the past 8 days: - Over $1.05bn inflows into the Blackrock ETH ETF (as Nate mentioned, top 4 ETF launch for 2024) - Over $610mm inflows into the Fidelity ETH ETF, with yesterday being $202mm (largest one day ever for FETH) (1/2)
Make that 8 straight days of inflows into iShares Ethereum ETF... Over $1bil total. Top 4 ETF launch of 2024 (out of approx 675 ETFs).
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Ethereum is the most secure, most liquid, and most reliable platform for tokenization Any large-scale institutional tokenization effort will take place on Ethereum — and the US Treasury is recognizing the benefits of tokenizing assets
BREAKING: U.S. TREASURY REPORT SAYS "TOKENIZATION HAS THE POTENTIAL TO UNLOCK THE BENEFITS OF PROGRAMMABLE, INTEROPERABLE LEDGERS TO A WIDER ARRAY OF LEGACY FINANCIAL ASSETS"
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Add $295mm to the ETH ETF tally… Nearly $1bn in new inflows since Thanksgiving 🚀
ETH ETF inflows are accelerating Since Thanksgiving, ETH ETFs have seen $657mm in inflows ~75% of total net inflows since inception have come in the last 4 days Combined Blackrock + Fidelity ETF AUM is almost > all outflows from ETHE The ETH ETF onramp is getting warmed up..
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Prediction: there are 2 possible outcomes for new crypto ETFs in 2025 — Outcome (1): we see a wave of indiscriminate approvals, where we either get 10+ new crypto ETFs… (This would include XRP, DOGE, LTC, ADA, SOL, AVAX, DOT, LINK, etc) (1/4) cointelegraph.com/news/us-re…
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The ETH ETFs saw ~$549mm in net inflows over the past 7 days Of which $333mm was on 11/29 This compares to a 7-day net inflow of ~$1.36bn for the BTC ETFs ($320mm on 11/29) 7 day net ETH issuance: 9,695 ETH ~= $34mm 7 day BTC issuance: 450 BTC * 7 = 3,150 BTC ~= $302mm (1/3)
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**ETH should be a core part of a US Digital Asset Strategic Reserve** The Ethereum network has become systemically important global technology ETH = blockchain technology adoption and growth 4 reasons why ETH needs to be a US Strategic Reserve asset (alongside BTC): (1/7)
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Bitcoin was the start of the crypto movement - but it doesn’t represent crypto’s full potential BTC is analogous to gold - a pristine store of value meant to be tucked away and held The true innovation that came after gold was finance and capital markets - debt, equity, fiat, forex, rates, and all permutations of derivatives How can crypto improve TradFi? Not just with DeFi - DeFi cuts out too many players rather than making them more efficient Crypto makes finance **programmable** Programmable finance is our real innovation. Nobody will disagree that the financial system needs an upgrade. Nobody will disagree that machines - AI agents, apps, devices - should have access to money And money needs to be digital and programmable to be upgraded for the modern technological renaissance that is unfolding Crypto facilitates this. But not all crypto! The underlying money, the underlying reserve asset of this new digital programmable economy - needs to be secure, neutral, and controlled by nobody Programmable money needs to be as universal, secure, and ubiquitous as the Internet: accessible to all, but owned by no central entities And this is why Ethereum will ultimately win. Ethereum is the only platform for programmable finance with regulatory clarity, maximal security / decentralization, no downtime, and a scaling plan that promotes innovation while ensuring neutrality ETH is the neutral reserve asset for a world where we have programmable finance. Moreover, it’s an excellent store of value! #ETH has: - Programmatic issuance that has been lower than BTC for years - A fee burn mechanism that creates scarcity - Swiss Army knife scaling solutions (L2s) that foster cutting edge innovation while maintaining uptime and reliability (L1) to secure the ETH economy - A staking yield - which is uncorrelated to TradFi yields - which will be the bedrock of programmable finance Bitcoin was the beginning - and it will do very well due to its simplicity But the endgame for crypto is a world where money and finance are programmable, neutral, and accessible to all We will build this world on #Ethereum.
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