What institutions need to adopt Ethereum.

The six requirements institutions raise with us most often. Each one lists the evidence behind it and the date we last reviewed it.

Can we hold and administer this the way we hold everything else?

Qualified custody, fund administration and in-kind creation are available from named providers under existing mandates.

62 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026

62 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026 // the record in full

Can we stake without taking on concentration risk we cannot explain?

Staking access exists and rewards are treated as non-securities. Exchange-traded products in the United States, Canada, Europe and Hong Kong now stake through named custodians and providers; validator concentration and governance are not settled.

12 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026

12 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026 // the record in full

Do we know what this instrument is, legally, in every venue we operate?

ETH is a digital commodity in the United States and stablecoin law is in force. Market-structure legislation stalled, and jurisdictions are diverging.

61 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026

61 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026 // the record in full

Can we keep a position confidential on a public ledger?

The most consequential open question institutions put to us. Selective-disclosure work is underway across the ecosystem. Nothing is production-settled today, and we would need to see it running in a regulated deployment before we said otherwise.

12 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026

12 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026 // the record in full

Which network do we settle on, and how do we get out?

More than a hundred networks and no neutral selection framework. Our own record shows institutional issuance concentrated on mainnet, with layer 2s carrying stablecoin float rather than funds.

33 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026

33 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026 // the record in full

Who is the counterparty when there is no counterparty?

An ownerless system meeting procurement built for vendors. Six organizations can take your first call.

78 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026

78 deployments bear on this // as at 7 October 2026 // the record in full

Structured assessments of what Ethereum supports today. They are not certifications, endorsements or approvals of any provider, and they carry no warranty you may rely on. Where our own evidence is thin we say so in the entry rather than rounding up.

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