Ethereum was built before crypto knew what it was building. It raised $18.3m, shipped real decentralization, and has never stopped running over 10 years of nonstop operation through forks, upgrades, chaos, and scale. No resets and outages. Today it secures • $97B in TVL • $37.8B across L2s • the most used DeFi applications in existence • over half of all stablecoin supply L2 throughput is already around 32k TPS, with a credible roadmap to 100k TPS on mainnet. Not a promise, an execution plan. This is where tokenization lives. Where 80%+ of RWAs are issued. Where institutions actually deploy capital. Where ETFs reached $10B AUM faster than nearly any asset ever. While other chains chased growth by printing tokens and draining treasuries, Ethereum stayed neutral, transparent, and economically active. It’s the settlement layer for global finance. coordination layer for crypto. world computer. At $377B FDV, it’s valued roughly equal to the money burned by Ethereum killers over the years. History already choose. Ethereum just keeps compounding.(Justin Wu)