Wall Street Stops Testing Ethereum and Starts Building On It

By Isaac • June 14, 2026 12:14 pm •

The pilot phase for Wall Street and Ethereum looks like it is ending.

Etherealize founder Vivek Raman told CoinDesk on June 13, 2026 that large financial institutions are moving past crypto experiments and deeper into Ethereum itself.

Raman said those firms increasingly treat public blockchains as production infrastructure rather than emerging technology. That is a meaningful change in posture for a sector that spent years running closed tests.

Ethereum ranked second by market capitalization during the June 14, 2026 CoinGecko selection check, so this is a story about a current top-two asset, not a speculative side project.

Ethereum may be entering a different phase with institutions. According to Vivek Raman, founder of Etherealize, Wall Street