Joseph Lubin

Co-founder of @ethereum | Founder of @Consensys | Chairman of @ConsensysMesh | Chairman of @Sharplink $SBET. Building on #ETH. Views expressed are my own.

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

I am honored to be asked to be a torch bearer for the run up to the 10th anniversary celebration of Ethereum's launch and non-stop, essentially flawless, operation of the protocol -- even as the protocol underwent many major upgrades "in flight" – without missing a block.

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

Very thoughtful piece from a man who’s been on the inside of TradFi for decades and has brought his wisdom and perspective to the intersection of TradFi and Ethereum at Sharplink.  He is a voice of reason and a steady hand.  He’s built an outstanding team that can weather the lulls and capitalize on the surges.

The institutional group at Consensys is doing the work: bringing Ethereum to major global financial market infrastructure hubs and major financial institutions.

TradFi keeps choosing Ethereum, but TradFi doesn't announce that they're going to announce something. TradFi comprehensively covers the bases and then launches.

So Joseph's steadfast outlook is very well informed. The surge is coming.

[Joseph Chalom @joechalom]

https://t.co/CEhi4vF5rL

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

"For generations, sophisticated treasury management has been the exclusive province of institutions and the ultra-wealthy. Large asset managers employ teams whose sole function is to ensure that not a single dollar sits idle, that every security generates income, and that every vote reflects their values. Retail investors have never had access to anything comparable. That is about to change."

- @joechalom

We are rapidly moving into a world in which everyone with access to the internet will have access to the sum total knowledge, wisdom and best practices that human civilization has amassed. Everyone will have access to the breadth of civilizational knowledge and the depth of a domain expert in every area of pursuit. Everyone will be able to access top tier business and financial advice and assistance in executing their vision. Everyone will be able to be CEO of their own life in command ofswarms of agentic machine intelligences that can be configured to help the individual run their team, their project, their education, their company, their family and their lives optimally.

Famously Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin -- one of the early co-founders of an ill-formed decentralization protocol -- said "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."
The world is transforming rapidly and utterly. The next economic and geopolitical supercycle will be composed of decentralized protocols, centralized and decentralized machine intelligence forming a hybrid human-machine economy and decentralized identity, reputation and social graph systems.

@Sharplink's @joechalom points out that the world of finance is being utterly transformed and democratized: stable coins, tokenized real world assets, permissionless DeFi and smart contract-based vaults that intelligently implement strategies more diverse and efficient than those currently offered to the masses in the forms of ETFs and mutual funds will soon dominate global finance. Agentic AIs that have your back and operate fully in your best interest will significantly level the financial playing field so the lay person can stay actively informed and keep her/his finances healthy, 24/7/365.

[Joseph Chalom @joechalom]

Today I published an oped in @coindesk detailing the coming revolution in agentic finance, what it will mean for retail investors, and why it needs to be built on #Ethereum: https://t.co/NT4GFxxGlr

[Lighter @Lighter_xyz]

https://t.co/1d3gsYl4R2

[Consensys.eth @Consensys]

America is handing the crypto market to foreign competitors.

Consensys' @BillHughesDC argues that the Senate must pass the CLARITY Act now to close the competitiveness and national security gaps.

CLARITY is not just good policy, it's good politics. It ensures a market that works for Americans and the US dollar, provides law enforcement with durable tools against illicit finance, and allows American institutions to modernize the rails on which finance runs.

Read more: https://t.co/D5oK7u8W7D

[Katie Haun @katie_haun]

https://t.co/Unfl6DjfUk

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

Proud to see the @etherealvc team recognized here- thoughtful, principled, and deeply aligned with the long-term evolution of the decentralized web. Excited for what we’re building together and for the platform’s next chapter.

[Ethereal Ventures @etherealvc]

Ethereal Ventures was featured today in Fortune. Read to learn more about our seed and early-stage focus and what’s made us successful under our team and leadership:

https://t.co/R2YWg6aYWi

[MetaMask 🦊 @MetaMask]

HyperEVM is now fully supported in MetaMask.

MetaMask 🤝 @HyperliquidX

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

Huge congrats. Great group. Keeps getting bigger.

[MYRIAD @MyriadMarkets]

Today marks a major milestone for MYRIAD.

We’re accelerating our vision in building sharper, deeper and more accessible information markets.

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

Looking forward to @Sharplink earnings call at 8:30am ET this morning. You can join here:

https://t.co/zWlHdbxPlf

[Sharplink @Sharplink]

2025 was a foundational year for Sharplink. We launched and began executing on our Ethereum treasury strategy.

Year-end snapshot:

→ 864,597 ETH held in our treasury
→ $28.1M in revenue
→ 46% institutional ownership

Here's how we got here 🧵

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

Americans deserve financial privacy, real consumer choice, and the freedom to innovate. Prohibiting a government-issued CBDC protects those values while allowing market-driven solutions like stablecoins and decentralized networks to modernize payments. The future of money should be open, competitive, and privacy-preserving. Consensys whole heartedly encourages Congress to pass this bill.

[Blockchain Association @BlockchainAssn]

The following statement is attributed to Blockchain Association CEO @SummerMersinger in support of the Senate’s inclusion of CBDC prohibition language in the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act:

[Joseph Chalom @joechalom]

Just got back from an energizing trip to Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan.

The depth and vitality of ETH interest across these regions is real and accelerating.

Here's what I saw, and why it matters. 🧵

[Joseph Chalom @joechalom]

Our institutional ownership of $SBET grew to 46% as of Dec. 31, 2025 putting @Sharplink among the most institutionally held digital asset treasuries in the market.

More than 60 new institutional investors along with many existing investors, some of the top financial firms in the world, drove this growth.

[Sharplink @Sharplink]

New look. Same vision.

Our brand now reflects what we already stood for:
Discipline. Durability. Productivity. Long-term thinking.

Institutions choose Sharplink for these reasons. This is Ethereum with an edge.

https://t.co/zBevdduvG9

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

@RyanSAdams @tkstanczak The pace of innovation will keep accelerating.

Might be best to have a new superstar co-ED with fresh perspectives and different experience every 18-24 months.

Will the next co-ED be human or mostly human?

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

Tomasz, Hsiao-Wei and team have done such a great job bringing urgency, clarity, organization, transparency, talent and a sustained resurgence to the EF, that I will be a bit sad to see Tomasz go -- yet excited to see him get back to other forms of building.

From my interactions with Bastian over the past few years, I can assure the Ethereum ecosystem that Bastian will bring a perfect balance of top tier intellect, class, energy and precision drive to the EF. Perfect choice for co-ED.

Lock in for the next major sustained acceleration phase.

[Aerugo @aerugoettinea]

I am stepping into the role of interim co-ED @ethereumfndn to continue the progress that Tomasz has made over the last year.

Tomasz brought an energy and urgency that the EF needed at a critical time, and I join the community in thanking him for his work on behalf of the Foundation and the network.

This task isn't something that I take on lightly, knowing the weight of responsibility of the role through seeing it up close for some time, but it is one that I am prepared to handle.

I've served in a management position at the EF over many years, working closely with Hsiao-Wei, Tomasz, Josh Stark, Danny Ryan, Aya, and Vitalik at different points in time. My focus has been deliberately on illegible but essential work, helping management try to make well-informed decisions, working with EF's team leads, considering budgets, articulating strategy, setting priorities, and more.

The decisions I make will be guided by a principled insistence on the properties of what we're building (censorship resistance, open source, privacy, security). These properties are what make Ethereum relevant and competitive, and they are the foundation of Ethereum's value proposition to the world and everything the world builds on it; just as Ether is the foundational store-of-value that underpins every transaction across it; and just as both are indispensable to the EF's own treasury.

The mandate of the EF is to make sure that real permissionless infrastructure, cypherpunk at its core, is what gets built. Ethereum should outlast us, and it has been our job from the beginning to make sure it is robust enough to do so. I, and the rest of the EF, will work alongside other members of the community - core protocol contributors, researchers and client implementers, auditors and whitehats, incident responders, spec authors, solo stakers and validator operators, node runners, MEV gremlins, rollup and L2 teams, bridge and interoperability integrators, UX and product builders, infra providers and tooling maintainers, educators, community organizers, forum crews, lurkers, and free software advocates, grant-givers and culture-makers, artists, memers, cypherpunks, cyberanarchists, Landian accelerationists, financepunks, femboys, soundcloud rappers, transgenders, disinformationalists, cyborgs, anons, revolutionaries, shitposters, trolls, federal lists, hypebeasts, pirates, preppers, the bros, incels - to make it last 1000 years or more.

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

It was great to connect in Hong Kong and share perspectives @mrblock.

I’m looking forward to what comes next.

[區塊先生 🐡 ⚠️ (rock #58) @mrblock]

無論市場環境如何波動，我始終致力於帶領我所投資與顧問的項目走向全���，對接優秀的創始人、投資者及頂尖機構，並竭盡所能為他們創造價值。

這次非常榮幸能與 @ethereumJoseph 深入交流，感謝他的慷慨邀約與那頓精彩的晚餐。看到 @MetaMask 持續不斷的創新與突破，令人倍感振奮。期待我們未來的深度合作！

Regardless of market conditions, I remain fully committed to supporting my portfolio companies by connecting them with visionary founders, investors, and leading institutions worldwide.

It was a true pleasure to catch up with @ethereumJoseph. I’m incredibly grateful for his time and the fantastic dinner. The ongoing innovation and progress at @MetaMask are truly inspiring—excited to keep building and moving forward together!

[Joseph Lubin @ethereumJoseph]

This is what real adoption looks like. 

2026 is the year that massive TradFi liquidity flows onto Linea and Ethereum.

Institutional capital is choosing Ethereum native yield in production, not theory.

[Joseph Chalom @joechalom]

2026 marks the beginning of Ethereum’s "productive era" and a major step function in its adoption curve.

This $170M deployment on @LineaBuild brings DeFi yield to public markets within a qualified custodian.

This is what institutional-grade productivity looks like.

[Stand With Crypto🛡️ @standwithcrypto]

We’re kicking off 2026 with the momentum we need.

We’re getting one step closer to passing market structure legislation in the U.S. Senate and establishing the clear and fair “rules of the road” digital assets need. BUT: It has to happen WITHOUT reopening or restricting stablecoin rewards offered by platforms or other third parties.

Send a message to your Senator and tell them: Pass market structure, protect our stablecoin rewards.

https://t.co/6t7y2Ssu5z

[Ji Kim @_jikim]

Stablecoin rewards are market-based incentives, which benefit consumers. Stablecoin rewards facilitate customer acquisition, allow for customer loyalty, build merchant acceptance, and ensure continued U.S. leadership over stablecoin innovation and adoption.

As @faryarshirzad points out, if the U.S. limits stablecoin rewards, consumer adoption can and will move offshore, along with the underlying technology, developers, and much more, which will only negatively impact the U.S. and continued dollar dominance.

"[T]he ability to offer rewards. . . means lower costs, more choice, and a more competitive payments system for Americans." 💯🇺🇸

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

China has decided to pay interest on their own stablecoin, because it benefits ordinary people, and they recognize it as a competitive advantage.

I worry we are missing the forest through the trees in the U.S. Rewards on stablecoins will not change lending one bit - but it does have a big impact on whether U.S. stablecoins are competitive.

Rewards (or even paying interest) benefits ordinary people just like community lending does. We have to let the market do both.