Vitalik: Institutions favor Ethereum due to its stability and reliability, not just its scalability.

On July 5, during an interview in Cannes, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that people often think institutions only care about "scalability" and "speed"—but the reality is quite the opposite. "Many institutions have told us directly that the reason they value Ethereum is because it is stable, reliable, and does not go down."

At EthCC, Buterin delivered a keynote speech outlining the next steps for the Ethereum network and the "value test" faced during the acceleration of institutional adoption. He added that many institutions also inquire about "privacy" and other features oriented towards the long-term future—these are the issues that institutions truly care about. Tomasz Stańczak, the new co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, also stated that the reason institutions choose Ethereum is precisely because of these core values. "For ten years, Ethereum has never been interrupted for a second. Ten years of continuous upgrades, always adhering to security and resistance to censorship."

He added that when institutions place orders in the market, they want to "be a hundred percent sure that their trades will be treated fairly, without favoritism or discrimination, and executed accurately at the moment of submission." As stablecoins and tokenized assets gradually enter the mainstream, such guarantees of certainty are becoming increasingly valuable.