Fintech and blockchain, from systems actually shipped

Fintech

Your staked ether ETF redeems in a day. The exit queue does not.

BlackRock's staked ether fund keeps 5% to 30% of its ether unstaked to meet redemptions. Behind that sleeve is a validator exit queue shared by the whole network, which hit 46 days in September 2025 because one operator got cautious.

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Fintech

The stablecoin number banks are sizing their build against is the wrong one

Strip the bots and self-transfers out of the $33 trillion and you get $10.2 trillion, of which under 1% is retail. The two numbers justify different systems, and neither is the real reason to build.