Ethereum Launches an Institutional Nonprofit and a Government Primer on the Same Day
On July 1 the Ethereum Foundation published a plain-language guide for governments and institutions, and a new independent nonprofit, Ethereum Institutional, launched to make the case to big adopters full time.
Ethereum Launches an Institutional Nonprofit and a Government Primer on the Same Day On July 1 the Ethereum Foundation published a plain-language guide for governments and institutions, and a new independent nonprofit, Ethereum Institutional, launched to make the case to big adopters full time. Aaron Rafferty July 01, 2026 Key Takeaways On July 1 the Ethereum Foundation's Global Policy Strategy team published "Ethereum for Governments and Institutions," a non-technical primer on how the network works and compares. The same day, a new independent nonprofit called Ethereum Institutional launched to accelerate institutional adoption of Ethereum, backed by BitMNR, SharpLink, and Joseph Lubin. The Foundation's report cites Ethereum's uninterrupted uptime since 2015 and roughly $76 billion in staked ETH securing the network. Ethereum made two moves toward the institutions and governments it wants as customers, and it made them on the same day. On July 1 the Ethereum Foundation's Global Policy Strategy team published "Ethereum for Governments and Institutions," a plain-language guide for public-sector and corporate leaders weighing whether to build on a blockchain and, if so, which one. The pitch is neutrality. The report argues that payments, identity, and record-keeping now sit with a handful of intermediaries who can change the rules or go down, and that the fix is infrastructure no single party controls. It leans on an outside risk review, pointing to Ethereum's uninterrupted uptime since 2015, roughly $76 billion in staked ETH securing the network, and more than 11,000 developers across its stack. It cites real deployments too, from digital identity in Bhutan and Buenos Aires to land records in India. "credibly neutral infrastructure where the protocol