Ethereum is transforming into a heavyweight settlement layer for institutional money, managing more stablecoin flows than retail trades.
Institutional treasury flows and on-chain dollars are increasingly leveraging the Ethereum network, with over $127 billion in stablecoins flowing on the blockchain.
DeFi and NFT activities on Ethereum mainnet have shifted to layer-2 solutions as the network focuses on core infrastructure functions and institutional use cases.
Ethereum's mainnet role is transitioning towards handling billions of layer-2 transactions, tokenized treasuries, and institutional settlement flows, as per analysts and developers' predictions.