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.

Excited to welcome Benjamin Chodroff as Head of Technical Strategy and MENA at Ethereum Institutional, based in Abu Dhabi. Benjamin brings 20+ years at the intersection of finance and emerging technology, most recently leading institutional finance sales for MENA and APAC at @OpenZeppelin, and before that seven years at @HSBC, where he headed the bank's emerging technology lab and launched tokenized deposit, bond and CBDC products. He'll be central to bringing institutional-grade rigour to how institutions build on Ethereum. Welcome to the team, @benchodroff!

Ethereum Institutional will be at @Sibos Miami. Our co-founder @mariuslsmith will be in Miami meeting with banks, asset managers and market infrastructures to discuss what institutional deployment on Ethereum looks like in practice. If that's you, feel free to reach out.

Excited to welcome Mia Adriaens as Global Events Lead at @ethereuminsti. @gm_iaa will lead all of our in-person and online convenings worldwide, bringing years of experience running leading events in the ecosystem. She'll be central to how we bring institutions together around @ethereum. Welcome to the team, Mia 👋

1/ The Ethereum Foundation's public grants registry lists 1,173 funded projects. One of the ones added this quarter is called "Ethereum Korea Policy Coordination Layer." That one is ours. Here is why it matters, even if you have never thought much about Korea.

Ethereum Institutional is heading east. Our co-founder @ismiMatthew will be at @kbwofficial and @token2049 Singapore over the coming weeks, speaking at events and meeting teams building on Ethereum. If you're exploring institutional deployment on Ethereum, get in touch 👋

We're announcing the relaunch of the Ethereum Institutional Forum: a curated, closed-door event series for senior institutional participants and leading voices from across the Ethereum ecosystem. We started the Forum while at the @ethereumfndn, with editions in Hong Kong and New York. It now returns as a dedicated series under @ethereuminsti. The premise is unchanged: a credible, neutral environment to understand where Ethereum is heading technically, and what that means commercially. The next few years will shape the infrastructure of global finance. Institutions will need to decide where to issue, settle, custody and build. Those decisions are better made in a room with the people building and advancing the ecosystem. EIF III takes place in London on 12 November, bringing together banks, asset managers, market infrastructures, and Ethereum leaders including @drakefjustin. Themes will include Ethereum's technical roadmap, post-quantum security, native issuance, and Ethereum's role as infrastructure for onchain finance. Further Forums will be announced soon. Attendance is by application. If you're a senior institutional participant or ecosystem leader, register your interest below. Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.

Always remember guys, the biggest value prop of blockchain is verifability. Don't trust, verify.

The Day 1 panel I'm most looking forward to. BlackRock's iShares and Franklin Templeton manage more than $13T combined, and both already have tokenized funds live on Ethereum; BUIDL and BENJI. So the question isn't whether global institutions will use Ethereum. They already do. The question is how. And the person asking is an equity derivatives market maker at KB Securities, someone who has to actually price and hedge these products, not just discuss them. Korea has no spot crypto ETF yet and our STO framework lands in 2027. This is exactly the conversation we need now. Sep 28, Conrad Seoul.

We're announcing the relaunch of the Ethereum Institutional Forum: a curated, closed-door event series for senior institutional participants and leading voices from across the Ethereum ecosystem. We started the Forum while at the @ethereumfndn, with editions in Hong Kong and New York. It now returns as a dedicated series under @ethereuminsti. The premise is unchanged: a credible, neutral environment to understand where Ethereum is heading technically, and what that means commercially. The next few years will shape the infrastructure of global finance. Institutions will need to decide where to issue, settle, custody and build. Those decisions are better made in a room with the people building and advancing the ecosystem. EIF III takes place in London on 12 November, bringing together banks, asset managers, market infrastructures, and Ethereum leaders including @drakefjustin. Themes will include Ethereum's technical roadmap, post-quantum security, native issuance, and Ethereum's role as infrastructure for onchain finance. Further Forums will be announced soon. Attendance is by application. If you're a senior institutional participant or ecosystem leader, register your interest below. Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.

We're announcing the relaunch of the Ethereum Institutional Forum: a curated, closed-door event series for senior institutional participants and leading voices from across the Ethereum ecosystem. We started the Forum while at the @ethereumfndn, with editions in Hong Kong and New York. It now returns as a dedicated series under @ethereuminsti. The premise is unchanged: a credible, neutral environment to understand where Ethereum is heading technically, and what that means commercially. The next few years will shape the infrastructure of global finance. Institutions will need to decide where to issue, settle, custody and build. Those decisions are better made in a room with the people building and advancing the ecosystem. EIF III takes place in London on 12 November, bringing together banks, asset managers, market infrastructures, and Ethereum leaders including @drakefjustin. Themes will include Ethereum's technical roadmap, post-quantum security, native issuance, and Ethereum's role as infrastructure for onchain finance. Further Forums will be announced soon. Attendance is by application. If you're a senior institutional participant or ecosystem leader, register your interest below. Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.

We're announcing the relaunch of the Ethereum Institutional Forum: a curated, closed-door event series for senior institutional participants and leading voices from across the Ethereum ecosystem. We started the Forum while at the @ethereumfndn, with editions in Hong Kong and New York. It now returns as a dedicated series under @ethereuminsti. The premise is unchanged: a credible, neutral environment to understand where Ethereum is heading technically, and what that means commercially. The next few years will shape the infrastructure of global finance. Institutions will need to decide where to issue, settle, custody and build. Those decisions are better made in a room with the people building and advancing the ecosystem. EIF III takes place in London on 12 November, bringing together banks, asset managers, market infrastructures, and Ethereum leaders including @drakefjustin. Themes will include Ethereum's technical roadmap, post-quantum security, native issuance, and Ethereum's role as infrastructure for onchain finance. Further Forums will be announced soon. Attendance is by application. If you're a senior institutional participant or ecosystem leader, register your interest below. Ethereum is the home of onchain finance.

Confidential DeFi at scale, live today. Zama is the fastest growing confidentiality protocol for onchain finance. Today, Zama expands confidential access to 16 curated yield vaults across 5 institutional curators and 5 assets: USDC, USDT, AUSD, WBTC, and tGBP, all deployed on @Morpho. The same trusted curators and strategies that institutional capital already uses, now with confidential entry. Alongside the vaults, the Zama Confidential Swap Protocol goes live. Swap between confidential assets without exposing intent or size. Curated by: Armitage by @wintermute_t, @Bitwise, @flowdesk_co, @RockawayX, @SteakhouseFi Access: @Morpho, @utila_io, @yield_xyz, @zerion Incentives: @pendle_fi, @merkl_xyz With support from: @Tether (USDT), @BitGo (WBTC), @tokenGBP (tGBP), @withAUSD (AUSD) Shield, send, deposit, earn, and swap, all confidentially at: app.zama.org

Full house for @mariuslsmith in #Dubai. The keynote ends and he’s immediately surrounded. People actually staying to ask questions, not just hovering for a photo (only ;-). That’s @ethereuminsti doing the work the unglamorous way: showing up, talking to institutions, answering the messy stuff in person. Good energy in the room today. @joechalom @fundstrat #ethereum ethereum:native

Earlier this week, our co-founder @MattDawsy was in Korea meeting with the local blockchain ecosystem. While there, he sat down with @YonhapNews to discuss recent developments in South Korea's digital asset landscape and what they mean for institutional Ethereum adoption. Links below👇