Grant Hummer

Thrilled to announce I’m part of @etherealize_io as the final cofounder! I’m also the first cofounder. Does that sound a bit confusing? Let me explain… ETHEREALIZE’S ORIGIN STORY I’ve been involved in Ethereum for a decade. I believe in it deeply - it’s the only real shot the world has at putting civilizational infrastructure on fair, transparent rails. July 23rd, 2024: the Ethereum ETFs launched. It was the day I’d been waiting for all year - Wall Street would finally wake up to Ethereum’s potential as the new operating system for global finance and further cement its position as the premier smart contract blockchain. The ETF launch fell short of my hopes, prompting me to dig deeper. I soon realized that the level of education and knowledge about ETH on Wall Street was still extremely low. While Bitcoin benefits from a clear “digital gold” storyline, Ethereum’s complexity makes its value harder to communicate—and no one was bridging that gap. Compounding the issue, competing layer-1 blockchains were—and still are—spreading relentless lies and gaslighting to chip away at Ethereum’s market share. The solution became obvious: Ethereum needed evangelization. It required a dedicated marketing and business development effort aimed squarely at Wall Street institutions. Together with my good friend @jamesfickel, an early ETH investor and Etherealize advisor, we dug deep into the Ethereum community for the right person to spearhead this effort. That’s when we met Vivek Raman. Vivek is a rare talent—a true unicorn. He’s brilliant, tirelessly hardworking, emotionally grounded, and perfectly suited for the role, with over a decade of experience on Wall Street and five years in Ethereum. We reached out to Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation with our idea. They not only endorsed it but provided a grant to kick things off. When Vivek saw Vitalik’s support, he committed fully to Etherealize, and we hit the ground running! Soon, though, we discovered that sparking Wall Street’s interest in Ethereum meant more than talk—it meant action. We needed to build products and software to seamlessly integrate Ethereum into their systems. Enter Zach Obront. Vivek brought in his friend Zach to develop prototype applications. Zach delivered an extraordinary suite of tools in record time—an entire production-ready prototype in just weeks. Having met thousands of developers and working for years as a software developer myself, I can say I’ve never seen anyone ship high-quality code that fast. As Etherealize’s ambitious mission to bring Ethereum into the real world crystallized, Zach joined as a cofounder. Meanwhile, we’d been discussing our plans with Danny Ryan, an Ethereum legend who played a major role in driving critical improvements to the Ethereum protocol between 2018-2024. Danny was considering returning to the EF, or doing something new. We shared Etherealize’s vision with him, and he grasped it instantly. He became excited about the prospect of contributing to real-world adoption and dealing closely with important users, which could feed back into protocol R&D. After an intense weightlifting session with Vivek, Danny was on board—the rest is history. After ideating Etherealize and mostly operating behind the scenes, I’ll now be taking on the role of Chief Strategy Officer. I will work to position Etherealize in the Ethereum ecosystem and drive the highest impact ways we can accelerate our mission of bringing Ethereum to the real world. As we stand on the cusp of a transformative era, Ethereum’s moment to triumph is here. The Ethereum Foundation has appointed two exceptional co-Executive Directors, and we look forward to collaborating closely with them. Etherealize is partnering with the entire ecosystem to bridge innovation and real-world adoption. We’re here to energize Ethereum, elevate its narrative, and enable its potential to reshape the world. This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for—Etherealize is ready to help Ethereum not just succeed, but soar. Ethereum is open for business.

1/ As crypto winter comes to an end, it's time for a new blue chip asset to lead the way forward All major innovation - tokenization, stablecoins, perps, L2s, DeFi - happens on Ethereum Blockchain's NVIDIA moment is here at last... And so this next cycle belongs to ethereum:native

Ethereum is the world computer. ETH is the productive money for the world computer. The financial system is having its Internet moment, and Ethereum is the best underlying infrastructure. (1/2)

Apologies if you received any weird Telegram messages from me - my account was hacked this morning. Still trying to piece together where the security hole was.

@lex_node @VivekVentures @Etherealize_io @dannyryan Locked down now. Thanks. No idea how this happened. No other accounts compromised and it was secured with a pretty strong PW.

Insanely bullish for ETH

Two weeks ago, Ethereum researchers met in Berlin to continue charting the protocol's long-term trajectory, following along discussions with client teams in Svalbard in April. The updated strawmap is at strawmap.org, and I attached a picture of it to this post. My own high-level takeaways: * "Lean Ethereum" is not a single one-shot upgrade, it is a collection of improvements that will come online to the Ethereum network over the course of three or four years. But make no mistake, this IS the third major iteration of Ethereum in the same way that the Merge was the second. Almost every major piece of the protocol will be replaced: - Verification through recursive STARKs, rather than direct re-execution. Recursive STARKs become an enshrined first-class core component of the protocol - Replacing everything quantum-vulnerable with quantum-safe alternatives - Consensus: decoupled available chain and finality, one or two-round finality. Theoretically optimal security properties, simpler than today, and faster than today - Multidimensional gas - State: not just tree structure, but what *types* of state are available - Changes to client architecture ... At the same time, simplification, cleanup and future-proofing. And this will all be done in a way that minimizes disruption to existing application. We've done this before (the Merge), we can do it again. * H-star (aka Hegota) is probably Ethereum's last thematically "pre-Lean" fork. Starting from I-star, most of everything we do will have a very strong "Lean" feel to it in one way or another. * Privacy is no longer an afterthought, it is a first class goal. When designing Frames, the mempool, additions to the state tree, we explicitly ask the question "okay, how do quantum-safe, intermediary-free privacy protocol transactions go through this, and what is the overhead?" * Formal verification of everything for security. * FV also makes us much more comfortable with canonicalization (having pieces of the protocol that are directly defined as a piece of bytecode expressed in some language). evm-asm is being written in part to become a canonical proof system for the EVM. * Quantum safety has shifted up a LOT in priority. This adds a lot of work (eg. finalizing a quantum-safe blobs design has become urgent; this work has already been ongoing for months) * Probably the single most disruptive part of the plan is the changes to state. There is growing consensus around leaving present-day-style "dynamic state" mostly unchanged, but scaling it only a medium amount, and adding new types of state that are more scalability-friendly (eg. no need for builders to sync/store all of it) but more restrictive, and that will scale a large amount. eg. possible Ethereum in 2030: 2 TB of present-day-style (dynamic) state, and 100 TB of new-style (scalable but restrictive) state This "new-style" state would work very well for ERC20s, NFTs, many defi use cases, but not eg. highly "central" objects like Uniswap contracts, or onchain order books, or other complex things (which are crucial for Ethereum but which only take up a small percentage of state) Hence, it will not be *necessary* to rewrite any apps, but it will be *very cost-effective* to eg. rewrite an ERC20 token into a newer design that uses a new type of UTXO storage that is currently being explored, so that it will have >10x lower txfees. Design of these new state types (current ideas: keyed nonces, ring buffers, UTXOs, statically accessible state, temp state) is an area where we will need a lot of feedback from application developers (incl. privacy-friendly application developers) and probably several rounds of rethinking and iteration. * In the context of a much larger total state size, we need to figure out the incentive issues around who stores this state and what motivates them to. Even saying "each node stores 1%" is not good enough - why do they store that 1% and why are they willing to serve it? This is being elevated as a first-class research area. * Ethereum will need to have a "VM" other than EVM in one form or another - at the very least, we need something like leanISA for recursive STARKs - and the gains are large in exposing it to users so that we support programmable privacy and better scalability. Right now, the most likely contenders are leanISA and RISC-V. My own ideal is that in this world, we adjust the protocol so that the EVM becomes a high-level-language compiler-level feature, and the protocol only "sees" RISC-V / leanISA directly. But this is still far away. * Gas limit increases, blob increases and slot time decreases will happen many times over the next ~5 years. We expect a large gas limit increase with Glasterdam. Each step of increased scale or decreased slot time is a matter of getting to the point where it is safe to do it, which comes from a combination of client optimization and protocol changes. Ethereum is CROPS. Ethereum is scaling. Ethereum is reinventing itself. Onward.

More than half of these tokenized RWAs live on Ethereum mainnet

RIP Canton

@adietrichs Of course! Can’t wait to see you guys crush it

@gphummer Thank you for your support and the very kind words!

There's a new org in town. Several months ago, the Ethereum Foundation announced it was narrowing its scope to a new focus: CROPS. Censorship resistance, open source, privacy and security. The goal? Making Ethereum the most hardened and credibly neutral protocol in the world. The EF is also shrinking its size, in line with its "subtraction philosophy" of becoming relatively less important within the Ethereum ecosystem. One corollary of this narrowed focus is that roles the EF formerly filled (ecosystem development, adoption, broader protocol R&D, etc) seemed like they were at risk of being orphaned or left undone. Until now. Ethlabs is founded by former top EF researchers to drive usage, value, and adoption to Ethereum through the kind of applied R&D that is no longer being done by the EF. Another core focus of theirs is maximizing the value of ETH the asset. Two of the four protocol architecture leaders on the below (old) org chart are its founding members, with other leaders joining as well. This group has deep R&D legitimacy and experience. Ethlabs is one of the most bullish things to happen to Ethereum in a long time. I'm personally supporting them and can't wait to see the progress they make over the coming years.

The team at Ethlabs @ethlabs_org is one the cores driving the future of @ethereum Thus, Bitmine is delighted to be a key partner backing the efforts of this team $ETH is money

@BMNRTracker Not going to happen

This would likely cut the effective staking yield to 2.5-2.6% range. May need to happen in order for Ethereum to stay abead of the competition. Definitely cuts into $BMNR’s staking rewards though

@Cointelegraph Not going to happen

⚡️ NEW: Ethereum validators could redirect up to 10% of staking rewards to fund ecosystem projects under a new proposal.

@theklineventure @RokaAkorSF @julianspediacci @jspediacci @MarikaAnne ❤️

Dinner with the ETH crypto fam ln at @RokaAkorSF Thanks for holding it down for us all @julianspediacci @gphummer @jspediacci @MarikaAnne & Carrie 💗 Still love this community - as we enter into the idealist become pragmatic phase Grateful for amazing friends and good food 🥩🍣🍱

Avichal Garg on why he’s bullish ETH “What ETH has that is very difficult to reproduce is credible neutrality. And if you think there’s going to be a global financial system settlement layer, I think that is the critical thing — that trust and neutrality is basically irreproducible… ETH has that.” “For me the turning point for ETH was when the United States decided to seize Russian assets and weaponize the dollar… If you’re Germany, France, India, Turkey, Brazil, or most of the world, you’re looking at the world and saying, I don’t think I want to be allied with the Chinese — India certainly doesn’t — but now I’m worried that if I ally with the US and then they want me to do something and I don’t do it, they’re just going to take all my money? What you want is a US dollar denominated system that the US cannot single-handedly decide to boot you from and where the United States cannot just take all your assets. That’s literally what Ethereum is.” “[Ethereum is] a US dollar denominated system, that nobody in the world controls, that anybody can mutually agree to transact upon, where the United States can’t steal your assets — and there are ways to structure synthetic dollar assets that are not sitting in US banks, just like the Eurodollar system. What is that worth? I think that’s worth a lot of money.” “If you’re any bank, country, or central bank, [Ethereum] is the only place you can do that. Now how does that get valued? Does that mean ETH becomes a store of value as the endogenous backing asset for the thing which can be used as collateral? We tend to think that those things are true, and we’ve written about this.” “You can go talk to anybody on Wall Street. Where are they building? Everybody’s trying to build on ETH. Where’s Coinbase building? Where’s Robinhood building? Where’s SoFi building? Underneath it all, all of the activity for that sort of behavior — geopolitically, central bank level, important behavior — is happening right now in this space [on Ethereum], and I think it will take some time for people to appreciate and underwrite that.” “In 10 years people will look around and be like, ‘Oh wow, that’s really important, and I should own a piece of that.’ I don’t know when it rerates, but I think at some point people will get their heads around that there is something unique to this thing that nobody else will be able to reproduce, and that thing is valuable.” Source: @theempirepod (Jun 2026) Read our report "Why Permissionless Infrastructure Wins" below 👇

In my opinion, zero chance of this ‘crisis’ happening for $ETH zero “Funding secured”

This is fucking nuts. DeFi works. I remember reading whitepapers a decade ago with moon math and 0 code. It is real now. After a decade of grinding as an ecosystem, we are on the precipice of recreating all capital markets. My brain almost can't believe it's real.

Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick explains his $40,000 ETH price target by 2030 “I think a lot of [tradfi activity] happens on Ethereum Layer 1. I think about how BlackRock rolled out BUIDL, for example — all on layer 1 Ethereum… which I think is a more logical playbook for how tradfi will approach this buildout in the next year. And if you assume that more activity equals higher token price — which I think is correct (today I find the best measure is fees paid on the applications or protocols built on the Ethereum network) — I think that means ETH outperforms now and for the foreseeable.” Geoffrey Kendrick is the Global Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered and former Head of Asia FX & Rates Strategy at Morgan Stanley. He believes the ETH/BTC ratio will go from 0.03 today to 0.04 by the end of 2026, which is a $4,000 price target for ETH at $100,000 BTC. “My long-term forecast is $500,000 BTC by 2030 and $40,000 Ethereum by 2030… roughly 20x [for Ethereum], but a huge outperformance [versus Bitcoin] as well. And it’s because all the use cases we’ve been talking about, will almost all happen on Ethereum.” Source: @MilkRoadMacro @milkroaddaily (Mar 2026)