In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski sits down with Vivek Raman, co-founder and CEO of Etherealize, an organization focused on helping institutions work with Ethereum and integrate blockchain-based systems into existing financial operations. The conversation centers on a shift that has taken years to build: institutions moving from internal pilots to actual deployment.
What you’ll learn:
- Why financial institutions spent years running internal blockchain pilots before going public
- How regulatory clarity is affecting decisions around deployment
- Why Ethereum continues to come up in institutional discussions
- How tokenization is being used today, not just talked about
- What makes ETH different from other digital assets in terms of usage
- How stablecoins fit into existing financial systems
- Why decentralization can matter for institutions working with shared infrastructure
- How L1 and L2 design choices affect adoption paths
- And much more!
Vivek Raman is the co-founder and CEO of Etherealize, where he works with financial institutions exploring how to use Ethereum for settlement, tokenization, and on-chain products. Before that, he spent over a decade on Wall Street trading credit products at firms including Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Deutsche Bank. That background shapes how he evaluates blockchain systems today. Instead of approaching Ethereum as a purely technical system, he looks at how it fits into the existing market structure, where it reduces friction, and where it still falls short.
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