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Ethereum Institutional @ethereuminsti

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.

Lido @LidoFinance

A resilient validator landscape is foundational to the decentralization and security of Ethereum. On October 29, join experts from @Lionscraft_io, @ethereuminsti, @thedaofund and EY for a panel on ValOS and its role in strengthening validator operations. 📆

John Gillen - WartimeEthereum.eth @BitcoinJesusETH

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"

Anthropic @AnthropicAI

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:

Youbin Kang - Nonce Classic @youbin_kang

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.

Ethereum Institutional @ethereuminsti

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.

Ethereum Institutional @ethereuminsti

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↓

Optimism @Optimism

Meritz Securities, part of one of Korea’s largest financial groups, is exploring tokenization on Optimism. We’re collaborating to explore the issuance and distribution of tokenized Korean securities on the OP Stack. Korean capital markets are coming onchain .

Matthew @ismiMatthew

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Ethereum Institutional @ethereuminsti

🇯🇵 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

Ethereum Institutional @ethereuminsti

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 @ismiMatthew

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.

Ethereum Institutional @ethereuminsti

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.

Open Interest @openinterest_hq

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.

The Block @TheBlockCo

THE BLOCK: Ethereum Institutional has appointed David Duong as head of US, based in New York. Duong most recently served as global head of investment research at Coinbase and has previous experience in sell-side macro strategy at HSBC, Santander, and Deutsche Bank.