Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest asset manager in the world, is essentially affirming what $ETH bulls have been preaching for years: tokenization will be the future of finance, it will be much bigger than digital gold, and it will happen primarily on $ETH.
Consider this: For the time being, $ETH is the only tokenization platform that will have spot ETFs and that is officially classified as a commodity. This may hold true for the remainder of this bull cycle.
BlackRock is not only launching an $ETH spot ETF, but it has also chosen Ethereum over all other tokenization platforms to launch their own USD stablecoin (BUIDL).
$ETH is also serving as the main infrastructural network for the most influential and disruptive company in the crypto industry: Coinbase. They have chosen $ETH as their primary network for on-chain services and products. Coinbase will be spearheading consumer-grade products and services focused on USDC on their $ETH L2 network, Base, consolidating $ETH as a settlement layer of the internet and its native digital currency with monetary premium.
$ETH also has the highest cash flow, highest S2F, and highest native real yield of all crypto platforms that would even be remotely considered by institutional investors.
$ETH is a productive asset that will appeal more than digital gold to a broader market. It will do well in a pessimistic macro scenario, but it will thrive in an optimistic one. It also has zero mining structural selling and only marginal selling from stakers who must pay taxes on a deferred basis.
All of this will be heavily discussed by Larry and major financial talking heads after the ETFs go live. All of it is verifiably true, and FUD narratives will have no influence over the herd of institutional investors that is about to come for $ETH.
It's also worth mentioning that institutional investors will gladly pay $ETH's L1 premiums to host their tokens and transact on a network that prioritizes stability and liveness over cheap transactions, while retail investors who are not as concerned about it will find the best UX and cheap transactions on Coinbase's Base.
And all of this is happening while retail is, for the most part, completely sidelined from $ETH because they got distracted by competing smart contract networks and memecoins.
In summary, $ETH has better supply fundamentals than $BTC, and it is a productive and yield-bearing asset. It is also a more appealing execution network for institutions, while L2s will provide the best-in-class UX for retail users and provide incentives for fintech companies to promote Ethereum because they can monetize the execution layer.
We are going much, much higher.
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Keep calm, US regulators are not trying to kill crypto, they are trying to let TradFi recapture market from FinTech by using "protect inventors" as a pretense.
My predictions for what will come out of it? 1. $BTC stays as a commodity 2. $ETH stays as a commodity 3. Staked $ETH
provided as a service by custodians will become a security 4. A LOT of altcoins will be classified as securities 5. Big financial institutions are going to provide custody, trading and staking services for BTC and ETH
This way they will end the crypto "Wild West", but not
the most reputable decentralized networks (BTC and ETH).
ETH will be able to continue being used as a currency for NFTs and other digital assets that are not deemed as securities, but investors will want to hold staked ETH, and for that they will have to rely on TradFi players.
Stablecoins will pave the way for $ETH to mature from a speculative asset into having a significant valuation as a productive asset.
This is how it will happen.
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2/ Startup fintech companies and smaller TradFi companies can gain market share very quickly by providing cheap financial services powered by regulated stablecoins on Ethereum's L2. Stables will make it easier for other tech giants like Apple, Microsoft and Meta will be able to
3/ expand into that market as well.
Demand for stables will come from multiple places: 1. Crypto veterans who are looking for financial services that operate with stables and/or other crypto assets. Getting paid via USD stables will become a standard and crypto degens will
It will be very hard to get to find out exactly how many people are suffering negative effects from Covid vaccines because a lot of people will refuse to self-report.
There are also things that critics are not talking about.
1. Heart damage is very likely related to incorrect administration of the vaccine. The rush to get as much people vaccinated as quickly as possible ended up causing a lot of inexperienced and/or ill trained staff to administer the vaccine without proper, or completely
bypassing, aspiration. It will be impossible to determine how many people received a poorly administered vaccine.
2. Covid restrictions and work-from-home might have impacted the number of hours people were sitting for long hours in front of their computers. This can lead
People in the metaverse will be able to express their identity in very creative and fun ways.
For example: cats will make for interesting avatars in the metaverse. Not as a identity crisis. They are just fun costumes in a world where it is socially acceptable to wear them.
Paladins are cool too. How cool would it be to be a Paladin driving a 911 Porsche in the metaverse?
This might be a little too much for you, but your kids are going to love it.