NEW EPISODE: @ethlabs_org : The New Org to Make @Ethereum Win | @adietrichs & @casparschwa Ethlabs is here with a blunt mission: make Ethereum and ethereum:native win. Ansgar and Caspar join @TrustlessState to unpack why the @ethereumfndn is narrowing its focus, why Ethereum needs another R&D node, and how Ethlabs plans to push the protocol back toward scaling, interop, adoption, and value accrual. --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 What is Ethlabs? 2:35 The EF Narrows Its Mission 9:30 Putting Points on the Board 13:06 Principles Need Users 14:53 ETH the Asset and Ethereum the Network 17:33 Scaling, Interop, and Growth Workstreams 22:52 The Talent Behind Ethlabs 25:27 What a New Organization Unlocks 27:53 Pro Markets, Pro Growth, Pro ETH 30:51 The Trillion Dollar ETH Question 37:07 Who Steers Ethereum? 39:55 Shared Vision, Different Path 45:13 Funding Ethlabs 51:54 Hiring for Ethlabs 54:24 Ethereum’s Long Arc 58:14 What Comes First

EXCLUSIVE: Inside The Lighter and Robinhood Official Perps Partnership with @Lighter_xyz CEO @vnovakovski Yesterday Robinhood hosted their “The World is Flat” event where they announced the Robinhood chain mainnet & deepened relationship with Lighter, amidst many other digital asset focused initiatives. Lighter was named the official perps partner of Robinhood and will be directly integrated within the Robinhood wallet. Our @andyyy sat down with Lighter CEO Vladimir Novakovski to unpack the partnership, Lighter’s Q2 performance, and more. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:53 Perps For Robinhood Users 05:30 What Lighter Brings Robinhood 08:13 ETH As The Clearing Layer 10:47 Building Beyond Robinhood 13:40 Options Launch In Q3

EXCLUSIVE: Inside The Lighter and Robinhood Official Perps Partnership with @Lighter_xyz CEO @vnovakovski Yesterday Robinhood hosted their “The World is Flat” event where they announced the Robinhood chain mainnet & deepened relationship with Lighter, amidst many other digital asset focused initiatives. Lighter was named the official perps partner of Robinhood and will be directly integrated within the Robinhood wallet. Our @andyyy sat down with Lighter CEO Vladimir Novakovski to unpack the partnership, Lighter’s Q2 performance, and more. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:53 Perps For Robinhood Users 05:30 What Lighter Brings Robinhood 08:13 ETH As The Clearing Layer 10:47 Building Beyond Robinhood 13:40 Options Launch In Q3

1/ Today, the Global Policy Strategy (GPS) team is publishing Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions, a non-technical primer to equip the leaders making policy and deployment decisions with an understanding of how Ethereum works, how it's governed, and how it compares with perceived alternatives.

Goldman Sachs CEO and former U.S. Treasury Secretary: Stablecoins will be “enormous” “You can use stablecoins to very effectively — particularly in small transactions; big transactions you use FedWire — to go from US dollar stablecoins to euros or yen or other things. I think it is enormous, and I think the stablecoin legislation is a big step in the right direction,” says former U.S. Secretary Treasury Steven Mnuchin. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon agrees: “Higher speed, less friction.” Both also agree that stablecoins are not a threat to the U.S. dollar, and will in fact strengthen it. Mnuchin explains: “If you have stablecoins that are backed by U.S. Treasuries, I don’t think the U.S. needs to issue its own stablecoin. I think you’re going to see enormous use cases for these.” “And enormous demand for the dollar over time,” Solomon adds. “To me, [stablecoins] strengthen the moat around the dollar and the dollar’s position as the global reserve currency.” Roughly 53% of all stablecoins live on Ethereum (~$157 billion). If you exclude Tron, Ethereum’s stablecoin dominance jumps to 75%. Source: @GoldmanSachs (Mar 2026)

1/ Announcing Ethereum Institutional An independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, applications and overall ecosystem.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: Tokenization will change finance forever “There are slews of middleman in the financial services area. We have elongated settlement and elongated processes. If we could digitize every asset and have a more seamless way of going from a digital wallet of cash or a stablecoin into equities or bonds — through, in most categories, an ETF — it will reduce the friction cost and the transaction cost.” “There’s $4.1 trillion of money in digital wallets globally… Right now, if they wanted to go into a bond, stock, or make a real estate transaction, they’d have to move the money from a digital wallet to a traditional wallet, with all the commissions and fees [that entails]. The idea of tokenization of all assets, including real estate ultimately, is to just reduce huge friction costs and make investing easier and simpler. It’s going to allow for a more free-flowing process of investing.” In January, Larry Fink called for the usage of a single common blockchain to tokenize and secure all assets. Ethereum is the only real choice. Watch below 👇

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, is calling for the usage of a single common blockchain to tokenize and secure all assets. There's only one real choice. The ticker is $ETH.

Proud to support @ethlabs_org - a new world-class R&D lab focused on strengthening the Ethereum protocol. Ethereum's credible neutrality is almost impossible to replicate, and it's positioned to become the settlement layer for global finance. More talent strengthening the protocol compounds that lead. We're glad to be building alongside them to accelerate institutional adoption.

UBS and Nethermind have completed two joint proofs of concept showing that a public, permissionless network can support the compliance and operational needs of regulated financial institutions. The PoCs show that banks and asset managers can apply strong compliance controls through the infrastructure they run on top of Ethereum, without changing how the protocol itself works. We built and tested a node that applies customizable compliance rules to outgoing transactions, and a routing component that sends approved bundles directly to selected block builders. Both validated end-to-end on Sepolia, no live transactions. This is what enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure built on deep protocol expertise looks like in practice. We plan to build on this work with @UBS. Full release: ubs.com/global/en/media/disp…

Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation. What we believe: • We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person. • We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum. • We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone. • We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them. We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products. Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future. We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development. We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong. We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: join@ethlabs.org

Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation. What we believe: • We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person. • We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum. • We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone. • We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them. We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products. Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future. We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development. We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong. We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: join@ethlabs.org

Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation. What we believe: • We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person. • We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum. • We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone. • We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them. We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products. Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future. We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development. We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong. We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: join@ethlabs.org