$27 trillion settled.
Stablecoins processed more value last year than Visa's entire annual payments volume.
J.P. Morgan moves $2B daily on Ethereum rails.
New report from Etherealize, Nethermind, and L2BEAT on the institutional Layer 2 landscape.
Still need more reasons?
The ecosystem since 2022:
- Networks: 27 → 154
- Throughput: 47 → 1,500
- TPS TVL: $35B across leading L2s
Even more reasons:
- J.P. Morgan piloting tokenized deposits on Base
- Société Générale issued stablecoins under MiCA
- Visa prototyping ZK proofs for private asset transfers
-BlackRock and Franklin Templeton running tokenized funds
Moooore Reasons you asked for:
Regulatory clarity is emerging.
- MiCA is live in the EU.
- The GENIUS Act provides a US stablecoin framework. - Singapore and Hong Kong are approving tokenized products.
For institutions, L2s solve a core tension: public blockchain security with private network control.
Custom compliance, transaction confidentiality, guaranteed service levels.
All settled to Ethereum's neutral ledger.