Ethereum’s Silent Coup: Why Wall Street Just Picked the Real Layer Zero

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There’s a financial coup happening right under everyone’s nose.

While the headlines scream about meme coins, halving cycles, and political chaos, the world’s largest financial institutions are making the quietest — and arguably most important — pivot in decades: they are rebuilding their rails on Ethereum.

Last week at EthCC in Cannes, Vitalik Buterin delivered a message so simple it almost got ignored: Ethereum is reliable.

Reliable, in crypto, is a word people gloss over. But for Wall Street, reliability is everything. The reason billion-dollar transactions still flow through systems built in the 1970s is because they don’t break. That’s the entire story of modern finance — you trust settlement rails that never go down.

Ethereum, for all its tribal fights and scaling challenges, hasn’t gone down. It hasn’t been censored. It hasn’t broken. That track record — nearly a decade of uptime and censorship resistance — is precisely why the largest players on the planet are starting to migrate.

And the moves are no longer just theoretical. They’re happening right now.