It’s been a monster week for Ethereum. Any one of these developments would have been headline news 2–3 years ago, and now it's happening daily. #Ethereum adoption is compounding so fast, it's almost hard to keep up:
🛍️ @Shopify now supports ETH and stablecoin payments. USDC on @base is live via Shopify Payments and Shop Pay, exanding crypto checkout options for millions of merchants.
🏦 @stripe rolled out stablecoin payments through its Connect platform, for native crypto payment settlement.
📊 @RobinhoodApp announced it’s tokenizing 500 U.S. stocks and ETFs on a custom Ethereum L2, using the @arbitrum tech stack: a major bridge between traditional markets and on-chain assets.
🏦 @vaneck_us filed an S-1 for a Lido Staked ETH ETF (stETH): the first proposed ETF to directly hold ETH staked via @LidoFinance, signaling sustained institutional demand for yield-bearing ETH exposure.
🛒 @Walmart confirmed it will accept Ethereum and crypto payments through OnePay Cash, integrated with @coinbase.
💵 Stablecoin supply on Ethereum just hit a new all-time high of $180B, underscoring ETH's dominance as the global settlement layer for digital dollars.
🧑💻 Ethereum developer growth remains unmatched with over 16,000 new developers joined in 2025, more than any other L1 ecosystem.
⚙️ Core @ethereumfndn developers launched the Fusaka upgrade on testnet, another step in Ethereum’s scaling roadmap.
📲 @Alipay, with 1.4B monthly active users, is building an Ethereum L2 focused on real-world assets (#RWA), a monumental signal of global integration.
🇧🇹 Bhutan has integrated its national digital identity system with Ethereum, creating an onchain framework for government and citizen interoperability.
Payments, equities, national IDs, and institutional products are all converging on hashtag#Ethereum. The network effect is no longer theoretical: it's here and it’s industrial, financial, and sovereign.
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