The Ethereum Foundation has launched “Ethereum for Institutions”, a new initiative designed to help businesses, financial institutions, and enterprise builders navigate and adopt Ethereum’s rapidly expanding on-chain ecosystem. The resource, now live at institutions.ethereum.org, offers a continuously updated showcase of institutional use cases, technological advancements, and key partners driving the next generation of blockchain-based finance.
Guiding Institutions into the On-Chain Economy
The new site was developed by the Enterprise Acceleration Team within the Ethereum Foundation. It serves as a comprehensive guide for organizations seeking to build, tokenize, or transact on Ethereum’s infrastructure. The Foundation emphasized that Ethereum is the “neutral, secure base layer” where global financial value is increasingly being built. The platform aims to make institutional engagement more transparent and accessible, offering educational resources, integrations, and an evolving map of the ecosystem’s major contributors. Listings on the site are informational only, not endorsements, the Foundation clarified.
Ethereum’s Institutional Infrastructure: Scale, Privacy, and Compliance
The Foundation highlighted several pillars supporting institutional adoption:
- •Layer-2 scaling: Over $52 billion in total value is secured across 159 Layer-2 networks, delivering average transaction costs below $0.005 and more than 42 million operations per second (UOPS).
- •Privacy and compliance: Ethereum’s public-chain privacy stack uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZK), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and trusted execution environments (TEEs) to protect counterparties and business logic while maintaining regulatory compliance.
- •Enterprise security: More than 1.1 million validators secure Ethereum, backed by over 10 years of uptime, a foundation for institutional-grade reliability.
Integration with Leading Financial Players
Ethereum now underpins products from traditional finance giants such as BlackRock, Visa, eToro, and Coinbase, enabling tokenization, on-chain settlement, and billions in daily trading volume.
The Foundation noted that over 75% of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and more than 60% of global stablecoin supply reside on Ethereum. Teams like Tether, Circle, PayPal, and Ethena Labs are integrating stablecoins that power global payments and 24/7 digital commerce. Meanwhile, tokenization leaders such as Securitize, FTDA, Ondo Finance, and Maple Finance are introducing on-chain treasuries and credit markets, forming a new liquid foundation for capital markets.
DeFi, Staking, and the Future of Institutional Finance
Ethereum continues to dominate decentralized finance, accounting for 67% of global DeFi total value locked (TVL) and hosting the sector’s deepest liquidity. Core protocols like Aave, Compound, Euler, and Morpho Labs are building the “money legos” for modular borrowing, lending, and yield strategies.
At the same time, staking platforms such as Lido, EigenLayer, Rocket Pool, and EtherFi are enhancing security through liquid staking and restaking frameworks, critical components for institutional-grade participation.
A Living Resource for the Next Financial Era
According to the Ethereum Foundation, the Institutions site will remain a “living resource”, continuously updated to reflect technological and ecosystem developments. “Ethereum’s institutional landscape is vast, open, and growing fast,” the Foundation wrote. “We’re showcasing builders, innovators, and advancements shaping this new financial era.” Institutions interested in collaboration are encouraged to contact the Enterprise Acceleration Team directly via the official portal.