Podcast Episode
Ethereum as “Productive Money”: Vivek Raman of Etherealize Breaks Down the Institutional Thesis
The Smart Economy Podcast: Real-World Blockchain Applications with Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs·Ragnarok Digital, LLP·7 May 2026·1h 7m

About this episode
Vivek Raman, co-founder and CEO of Etherealize, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss how Ethereum is moving from experimentation to real institutional use. Drawing on his time trading credit on Wall Street, Raman explains why banks are revisiting public blockchains, how tokenization is being implemented in practice, and why Ethereum’s structure continues to come up in those conversations.