Etherealize: Ethereum is Open for Business | Danny Ryan & Vivek Raman
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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We’ve got the team behind Etherealize on the show today—Vivek Raman and Danny Ryan—to discuss their mission to onboard institutions, governments, and capital markets to Ethereum.
We explore how Ethereum is “open for business” with L2 scaling, modular architecture, and a maturing regulatory landscape. The Etherealize team breaks down their dual structure—a for-profit consulting and product arm alongside a nonprofit focused on R&D and policy—to drive institutional adoption.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Intro
00:07:12 Etherealize & Its Mission
00:15:29 Clients & Finances
00:20:17 Relation Between Ethereum Foundation & Etherealize
00:21:31 Etherealize's Funding
00:22:43 Etherealize's Competitions
00:26:02 Challenges & Roadblocks
00:28:15 What Success Looks Like for Etherealize
00:29:56 Etherealize's Co-Founders
00:31:10 Ethereum’s Upcoming Era
00:40:20 What Makes Ethereum Special
00:46:00 Political Effect on Ethereum
00:51:33 Community Support
00:54:51 Layer 1 & Etherealize
00:58:36 Hypothetical Scenarios with Ethereum
01:01:50 What’s Next for Etherealize
01:04:47 Some Unturned Stones
01:07:32 Closing & Disclosures
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Etherealize
Vivek Raman
Danny Ryan
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| 0:00.0 | I come from Wall Street trading floors. |
| 0:02.0 | We like winning. |
| 0:03.0 | We like competition. |
| 0:04.0 | But it's almost as if Ethereum is already ahead. |
| 0:07.0 | Ethereum is already winning. |
| 0:08.0 | When we go in and say Ethereum is the only blockchain without downtime, |
| 0:12.0 | where you have the most amount of tokenized assets, the most amount of economic security, |
| 0:17.0 | the most amount of regulatory precedent, the most amount of institutional adoption, |
| 0:20.0 | Ethereum is the default. We just have to remind people why. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to Bankless, we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance. |
| 0:34.6 | And today we're exploring the intersection of Ethereum in Wall Street. Ethereum is open for business. After 10 years of the Ethereum network being online |
| 0:43.2 | without a single instance of downtime, Ethereum is finally ready to go to Wall Street. Now, parts |
| 0:49.1 | of Wall Street have already noticed that Ethereum is incredibly well-suited for institutional |
| 0:53.2 | financial products. |
| 0:58.1 | BlackRock has already put a billion dollars of tokenized treasuries on Ethereum. |
| 1:03.3 | Franklin Templeton already has tokenized funds on chain, but these are examples of institutions coming to Ethereum. Now, Ethereum is bringing Ethereum to institutions. During Ethereum's early |
| 1:10.3 | transformative years from its inception |
| 1:12.0 | in 2015 to the modern era in 2025, Ethereum has made and kept a commitment to being an open, |
| 1:18.3 | permissionless, credibly neutral platform. A commitment to credible neutrality has been Ethereum's |
| 1:22.8 | strategy for targeting the world's largest TAM. The more politically neutral Ethereum can be, |
| 1:28.7 | the more it can attract larger institutions |
| 1:30.7 | to build on its rails. |
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