Will Ethereum remain institutions' top choice?

jonahrobrts breaks down the blockchain competition for TradFi's attention 🤼‍♂️

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Disruption. Digitization. Financial inclusion. Future-proofing.

What do all of these oft-repeated buzzwords have in common? They’ve all been used by crypto-pilled associates at TradFi firms to pitch their bosses on the exciting upside of blockchain tech. This year, it seems, the executives are listening.

Institutions jumped into crypto more headlong than ever in 2024. Their moves are starting to bridge the gap between TradFi and DeFi. However, this article isn’t focused on why firms are building onchain. Instead, we are focusing on where these funds are choosing to build.

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What’s Happening on Ethereum?
Ethereum is the world’s largest smart-contract blockchain network. It has secured over $90 billion in RWAs, including stablecoins. 2024 has been a big year for the adoption of non-stablecoin RWAs on Ethereum as well, with the network growing its onchain U.S. treasuries, bonds, and cash equivalents from $800 million to over $1 .5 billion and overall non-stablecoin RWA value to $2 .9 billion.

Some of the major players building on Ethereum this year include
Visa, BlackRock and FTI_US

Earlier this month, Visa announced that they are building the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) on Ethereum. This is the company’s biggest step toward crypto adoption thus far. VTAP enables Visa to issue and manage fiat-backed tokens on Ethereum. It is intended to be a sandbox for participating financial institutional partners to create and experiment with fiat-backed tokens. They expect to begin piloting the platform with Spanish multinational bank BBVA in 2025. While the VTAP program is certainly an experiment, it gives credit to the thesis that TradFi will migrate its operations onto Ethereum over the coming decades.

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Yet, the success of Ethereum’s competitors highlights a critical point: institutions are no longer bound to a single network. While Ethereum is foundational, blockchains like Solana and Stellar provide alternatives that are increasingly hard to ignore. However, they also present novel interoperability concerns.

Interoperability is central to the future of institutional blockchain adoption. As Visa states in their VTAP press release announcement, the largest benefits of building onchain include easy integration, programmability, and interoperability. Institutions that venture onto non-EVM chains like Solana or Stellar may face challenges in asset liquidity and protocol compatibility. This can lead to reliance on third-party services to bridge assets between chains, which introduces complexity and security risks. Ethereum’s widespread use means that staying within the EVM ecosystem—whether through Ethereum or Layer 2 solutions—remains the simplest and most secure option for institutions.

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However, for Ethereum to maintain its lead in the race toward institutional adoption, it must continue to balance world-class security and stability with the performance and scalability that competing chains continue to push. The race to capture the attention of institutional finance will be won by the network that can not only meet today’s demands but also anticipate the needs of tomorrow. Ethereum is well-positioned for now, but staying on top will require constant evolution.

Daily Memecoin Recap - October 13

Easy mode is finally here

AI Takes Over
$goat -> $6m to $95m (15.8x), truth_terminal
$opus -> hit $2 .66m, Claude Opus AI
#memesAI -> hit $2 .3m, another AI agent like $goat , AIHegemonyMemes
#a69z -> hit $779k , based on a16z
$dog -> hit $635k , dog version of $goat , Dogteus Maximus
- Founder of A16z pmarca funded an AI agent. The AI then created its own coin and started shitposting truth_terminal ( $goat )
- It tweets around 10 times/hour, constantly bullposting the coin without end
- Proof that narrative is king

Truth Terminal Tweets
$tree -> hit $1 .78m
$wen -> hit $540k
- These are based on tweets by truth_terminal ( $goat )

SPX Wants $1B
$spx -> hit $925m
$marie -> hit $7 .6m, Marie Rose, girl in one of the main $spx memes
$marie -> hit $4 .12m, on $eth

Great Volume
#conviction -> $228k to $2m (8.77x), Buy + Hodl + Believe
$swarm -> hit $4 .93m
$pve -> hit $3 .26m, player vs environment trading instead of player vs player
$main -> hit $1 .12m, main character, gen z meme
$peek -> hit $903k
$fumble -> hit $400k , shoulda woulda coulda

Retardio Meta
#retardio -> hit $197m , new ATH, deranged communities stay winning
$rsi -> hit $3 .6m, Retardio Solami Index
#ethtardio -> hit $3 .73m, on $eth

Dead Or Alive Meta
$alpha -> hit $7m , boss from the game series "dead or alive"
$tina -> hit $1 .52m
$kasumi -> hit $303k

Hyped Launch
$genz -> hit $929k , good art

Speed Coming Back To Life
$speed -> $750k to $5 .88m (7.84x)
- ATH of $25m
- Was one of the highest market cap degen memes in May

More Cooks
$dolan -> $7 .6m to $26m (3.42x), Dolan Duck
$morud -> $2 .3m to $8 .3m (3.6x), redacted Murad
$aped -> $333k to $1 .53m (4.6x), "I aped"
$lockin -> hit $94m , the cult continues to grow
$rich -> hit $9 .93m, good meme
$us -> hit $1 .82m, America's flag
$cult -> hit $1 .77m
$piu -> hit $983k
#gt3rs -> hit $730k , Porsche
$bite -> hit $530k , bitecoin, $btc meme
$retire -> hit $517k , "the last play so I can retire"
$dorime -> hit $473k , viral rat meme
$xtacy -> hit $283k
$bwob -> hit $267k , $fwog beta
$ddog -> hit $235k , data dog, programmable and immutable dog on $sol

What if this AI meta never ends and we just start trading memes that different agents create all day

At Solana Breakpoint 2024, Charles d’Haussy, CEO of the dYdX Foundation, discussed the protocols’s upcoming enhancements and muse on Solana’s growth.

While dYdX, one of the crypto industry’s oldest decentralized perpetual exchanges, runs its own sovereign appchain, the platform recently integrated Solana-based assets into its platform.

The move brought greater exposure to a wealth of Solana ecosystem tokens, allowing dYdX traders to express their opinion on assets like $SOL , $JUP , and $WIF .

Drawing on his rich experience in the industry, d’Haussy made fascinating remarks about Solana culture.

Solana Builder Energy
When dYdX governance moved to include more Solana-based assets via a Raydium integration in June, d’Haussy and the dYdX were hesitant to approach the Solana community.

“When we started to reach out to the Solana ecosystem, I was kind of cautious and trying to be gentle, not knowing exactly how we would be welcome for conversations about possible integration”

From an outside perspective, blockchain tribalism formed a perceived barrier to entry. Chain maximalism is a serious obstacle within the industry, which is further exacerbated by obstinate and outspoken communities on social media.

Fortunately, away from the noise and distractions of social media, the teams actually building these ecosystems are eager to collaborate and push the collectively push the industry forward. d’Haussy remarked that the Solana Foundation was welcoming and receptive to working alongside teams from alternative ecosystems in the pursuit of progress.

“We were really warmly welcomed. I think the Solana ecosystem has showed us, you want to connect to the Solana ecosystem and bring more mindshare to the Solana ecosystem via your own chain? How can we help you?… The Solana Foundation has been extremely welcoming, connecting us to plenty of people. And the builders were also very welcoming.”

“Sometimes Twitter makes you think that this is all tribes and they look at each other from afar. But the reality is the real builders and the people which are in the industry long enough and for the long term, they are very friendly and they want to grow the cake for everyone.”

Additionally, d’Haussy asserted that “Solana is like Ethereum five years ago”, highlighting the energy and hunger shown by developers building innovative products. The CEO drew comparisons between the atmosphere of week’s earlier Token 2049 conference and Solana Breakpoint.

“We are just out of three days of Token 2049, which is much more salesy and marketing and towards trading activities, which is really the audience of DYDX. So, that was perfect, we had a blast over there. Suddenly, you wake up the next morning and you're going to Solana Breakpoint.”

“It's a bit of a shock for me because suddenly we are surrounded by devs. So, there is this kind of change of seasons overnight between the projects and the business development atmosphere of Token 2049 and here the business, the atmosphere of building here at Solana.”

Blockchain tribalism is a regrettable obstacle, but easily overcome. As evidenced by dYdX and the Solana, teams from different chains can always find ways to work together in a way that benefits both parties and further advances the space.

🇨🇭 ZKB, the fourth largest Swiss bank, offers cryptocurrency trading and custody.

Zurich Cantonal Bank launches crypto services, including trading and storage.

“Our newly launched offering in the cryptocurrency space provides a high level of security and allows the integration of other currencies and applications”
says Alexandra Scriba, Head of Institutional and Multinational Clients at ZKB.

According to her, customers do not need their own wallet and do not have to worry about storing their own private keys, as ZKB handles both functions.

💸 Tether invests $100 million in the leading agricultural company Adecoagro 🧑‍🌾

Tether acquires a 9.8% stake in Latin American agricultural giant Adecoagro for $100 million to diversify its investments in the agriculture and food sectors

Adecoagro is a major milk producer in Argentina and manages over 193,000 hectares of sugarcane crops in Brazil, producing refined sugar and ethanol.

📊 Here are some destinations where crypto earnings are not taxed:

👉 Malta
👉 Switzerland
👉 Salvador
👉 Puerto Rico
👉 Georgia
👉 British Virgin Islands
👉 Cayman Island
👉 Hong Kong
👉 Singapore
👉 Emirates

Among these destinations, which one would tempt you the most? 👀

You need to know that I’m a rider!

Hand drawn $POPDOG footage destination MOON! 👩‍🚀🚀🌙

Believe me, It's not what you think it is.

There may be confusing waves, but the destination is already fated and what we done for the voyage will not go unwasted.

GG to Argentina !

Gm to everyone

🇦🇷 In Argentina, the adoption rate of cryptocurrencies is incredibly high.

With cumulative inflation of 276% over the past 12 months, a huge number of Argentines are buying and holding USDT.

Of the 130 million users of the 55 largest exchanges in the world, 2.5 million are Argentinian.

The 5 main Argentine exchanges are Binance, eToro, BingX, HTX and Bitget.

https://www.forbes.com/sit.../

ORIGIN TRAIL

OriginTrail is an ecosystem that was originally designed with the aim of bringing blockchain technology into supply chain logistics and optimizing the management of data related to real assets in the digital space.

Launched in 2017 by 3 co-founders, OriginTrail offers a reliable platform for product sharing, authentication and tracking. Since then, the platform has evolved well and now integrates AI into its process. The idea is to create an ecosystem where autonomous AI agents make it possible to optimize data analysis to identify and solve logistical problems.

How does OriginTrail work?

At the heart of OriginTrail is the Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG), a vast interconnected network that allows unprecedented traceability, from the origin of a product to its final destination.

Unlike other blockchain solutions such as VeChain, OriginTrail's DKG offers unique multi-chain interoperability, allowing the smooth integration of data from different blockchains and even traditional systems.

When a manufacturer adds information about a product, it is distributed and stored securely on several nodes in the network, ensuring their integrity and availability.

The integration of artificial intelligence by OriginTrail also plays a crucial role in the analysis of this data. AI can quickly identify trends, detect anomalies and even predict potential problems in the supply chain.

OriginTrail also develops specialized "AI agents", designed to interact autonomously with the DKG, performing complex tasks such as regulatory compliance verification or logistics optimization.

Finally, the other key aspect of the system is confidentiality and data control. Companies using OriginTrail have precise control over their information, deciding which data to share publicly and which to keep private.

If you don’t believe in the power of branding remember this.

“Big booty Latinas” is just a rebrand of “Fat Mexican chicks”.

Branding is everything.

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