Those semi-tokenization approaches (pointer) are just transitional solutions until the entire asset - its economic and social rights, registry, and transfer infrastructure - exists fully onchain. I’m not convinced it’s even worthwhile for corporations to go through those interim steps.
Lighter's escape hatch just got independently verified: if the sequencer ever dies, you can generate a ZK proof and withdraw directly on Ethereum.
Thanks to @L2beat for the writeup on our fully verifiable and permissionless onchain trading infrastructure.
Ethereum Researcher @drakefjustin, who co-authored Google's recent quantum paper:
"I've stopped thinking about post-quantum as a hurdle that we have to overcome, and I think of it more as an opportunity. It's an opportunity for Ethereum to stand out as the very first global financial system that is post-quantum secure — not just relative to its competitors, but also relative to fiat."
@FabianoSolana Well, even the Swiss Franc has been crashing against BTC, ETH and SOL for the last 5 years, but yes, for the last few months, you are right
just to be very clear,
we all like CROPS.
and the EF mandate is not a milady pledge, but a commitment to CROPS.
all of us are at the EF to build a world where censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security, are constantly available to anyone anywhere.
these cypherpunk properties unite the institution who wants to minimize counterparty risk, with the person fleeing a tyrannical government, it unites the mom who doesn’t want their kids data leaked to the world with the agent who needs to keep their human’s secrets.
the cypherpunk and the normie need the same thing and they just don’t know it yet.
this is not a mission limited to any one silo, but one that is clearly looking to advance all the silos. the value of CROPS enhances and extends our space and how it impacts daily human life in a way that is more exciting than anything else i have seen in a long time.
99.999% of the world (everyone) are not on our timeline and none of them care about our discourse, they only truly care about if the infrastructure for their freedom exists or doesn’t. the EF mandate ascertains that no matter what, that infrastructure will exist and will remain to be CROPS friendly.
the world is getting less free, surveillance is expanding and censorship is normalizing. the window for building the tools that protect people is getting smaller, we must not lose the gap.
digital freedom is more important than ever right now, and any ceded ground towards that freedom, is lost ground.
thank you for reading this far if you have, i feel this in my bones and it aches me that e are not talking about this more, let’s change that.
@DegenerateNews@calilyliu It was never about 'gaming on a blockchain' but about tokenizing in-game assets - think true ownership of rare skins/items that players can actually trade or port. Still makes a ton of sense
in a world where the scarcest resource is the collective ability to believe in something for more than a month, the construction of a shared meaning is a superpower.
You won‘t become the global settlement layer for all economic activity just because you do more BD as the other L1
CROPS are essential, non-negotiable properties for neutral, resilient infrastructure and they need to be embedded in the foundation of a
protocol
And interoperability allows everyone to build on top using these properties as they suit their case
You know the ticker
Etherealize CEO Vivek Raman: Banks are looking at Larry Fink and Ethereum
“It’s impossible not to be bullish now. […] The [Ethereum] network has never been stronger, more resilient, or future-proofed to scale with Layer 2s plugged in and ready for the institutional moment right now. Asset price will follow.”
“[BlackRock CEO] Larry Fink is a pioneer in the space. He has been a visionary, and his voice is heard and listened to by everyone else on Wall Street. The banks are looking at him. The asset managers are looking at him. He’s one of the leaders that’s digital assets-forward, and when he tokenized BUIDL — their money market fund — on Ethereum before there was regulatory clarity and before we got out of the Gensler SEC, that set the standard for Ethereum to be the default.”
“Ever since then, the money in money market funds on Ethereum has multiplied. Stablecoins on Ethereum have multiplied. And now Larry Fink is coming in and saying, ‘We need one common blockchain’ so that we don’t have fragmentation and all tokenized assets can be in one place. That means Ethereum — it’s the best set up for it.”
Source: @therollupco (Mar 2026)