The Reference · Settlement network
Ethereum.
ETH · 2015. The largest smart-contract platform: proof-of-stake since 2022, home of the ERC token standards, the deepest developer ecosystem, and historically the default venue for institutional tokenization and DeFi.
The institutional read
Institutional gravity remains here: most RWA issuance, most audited contract tooling, and the scaling layers that inherit its security. The pragmatic default for tokenized instruments that need institutional acceptance.
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