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JPMD extends from Base to Ethereum L1, giving institutional clients native onchain cash that sits alongside the assets, collateral and counterparties they transact with already. J.P. Morgan has now added a cash leg, with tokenized money market funds MONY and JLTXX both already on the network.
Published 19 October 2026
Ethereum’s usage, transaction economics, security, and the upgrades that matter to institutions.
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Ethereum is still called a blockchain. By 2030 it will be something else. Vitalik Buterin’s essay of 27 September 2026, drawn chapter by chapter.
Europe’s largest asset manager has brought a flagship European equity index fund onto Ethereum , extending its tokenization efforts beyond cash management. Amundi, which manages €2.4 trillion, has launched a tokenized share class of Amundi Core STOXX Europe 600, issued on Ethereum and developed with CACEIS .
Bullish has named Ethereum as one of the initial network partners for its equity tokenization services. Bullish plans to support issuer-sponsored tokenized shares on Ethereum, giving issuers a way to reach investors onchain while the official record of ownership stays with the transfer agent.
$21.55T moved across all networks in the period. $16.75T of it settled on Ethereum.
Base now ranks second among all networks by DeFi TVL, behind only Ethereum mainnet, with $6.22B locked across applications on the network, per DefiLlama. Four of the ten largest networks by DeFi TVL are Ethereum-based: mainnet, Base, Arbitrum and Robinhood Chain.
Interactive Brokers supports 20 digital assets. ETH is the only one you can stake. Interactive Brokers at a glance: 5.5 million client accounts, $964 billion in client equity.
OKXICE, their joint venture, has told the SEC it plans 24/7 trading in 64 tokenised US stocks, NVIDIA, Tesla and Apple among them, through Uniswap v4 pools on X Layer.
The Baillie Gifford Enhanced Yield Fund (BAGEY), the first fully native UK-authorised tokenised fund, is open for subscription, with Ethereum as its legal register, so the token is the holding itself.
ARK Invest is bringing the $1.3 billion ARK Venture Fund onchain with Securitize on Ethereum, open to eligible investors from a $500 minimum.
Based in Abu Dhabi, he brings more than 20 years at the intersection of finance and emerging technology, most recently at OpenZeppelin and before that seven years at HSBC, where he headed its emerging technology lab.
Its new custody service for institutions will hold ETH beside bitcoin and selected stablecoins, launching in Germany later this year, pending regulatory approval.
Our co-founder met Korea's blockchain ecosystem and sat down with Yonhap News to discuss South Korea's digital asset landscape and what it means for institutional Ethereum adoption.
Qivalis is a consortium of European banks building a regulated euro stablecoin under MiCA. While some other bank consortia have kept their tokenised money on private networks, Qivalis is issuing on a public chain, where the liquidity, the users and the DeFi markets already are.
Germany's central bank is the first institution to test and deploy Prividium, the permissioned platform from the team behind ZKsync, in its own infrastructure.
The first G-SIB to offer institutional ETH spot trading in the UAE, beside its custody business there since 2024 and its UK spot trading since July 2025.
Robinhood Chain, Revolut's EURR, J.P. Morgan's MONY and JLTXX, Crédit Agricole's EURXT, SBI's JPYSC, BlackRock's BSTBL and BRSRV, Neuberger's HINC and Morgan Stanley's MSSE: the summer's launches on Ethereum.
From $5.9 million to $793 million in twelve months.
EURR comes from a fintech with 80 million customers around the world.
The fixed income fund is actively managed credit, in high yield, collateralised loan obligations and leveraged loans, from a $230 billion platform.
