Let’s just get straight into it.
Something massive is happening right under our noses in the crypto market — and hardly anyone’s paying attention. While the average retail investor has been distracted by dog coins and price dips, the world’s most powerful institutions are quietly buying up Ethereum and lobbying for a major structural change: staking inside ETFs.
Let me walk you through how we got here and why it matters so much.
We’ve been here before. The market feels suppressed. Prices don’t reflect the level of adoption or the kind of institutional attention we’re seeing. We’ve watched governments, hedge funds, and mega-banks like JPMorgan get involved. Ripple launched a stablecoin and bought a company for $1.5 billion. The SEC lawsuit was resolved. Ethereum ETFs got approved.
And yet?
Prices fell. Attention faded. Nobody seemed to care.
It looked like apathy. But it wasn’t. It was orchestration.
Over the past two years, Ethereum has been oddly hated on. Narratives flipped. People called it outdated, slow, and irrelevant — while conveniently forgetting that hundreds of global corporations (yes, including JPMorgan and Microsoft) are building on top of Ethereum via the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
But while Ether’s price kept falling, another coin got pushed hard in headlines: Solana. Suddenly, Solana was the “chosen one.”
Something wasn’t sitting right. It felt coordinated. And then it clicked.
As Ether kept falling, major wallets connected to political figures like Donald Trump were accumulating millions in ETH — daily.
Meanwhile, BlackRock wasn’t just launching an Ethereum ETF — they were lobbying for a clause that allows staking within that ETF. Same goes for the New York Stock Exchange, which also filed with the SEC to allow ETH staking.
You read that right: the two most powerful financial entities in the U.S. are fighting to earn passive income from Ethereum.
Let’s break down why this is game-changing.
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Since Ethereum transitioned to Proof-of-Stake (via The Merge), the only way to mint new ETH is by staking existing ETH.
That’s it.
So if you control a large supply of Ethereum, you not only hold a valuable asset — you hold the right to generate more of that asset. And that means passive income, forever.
Now imagine BlackRock holding that much ETH.
Currently, the approved Ethereum ETFs do not allow for staking. That’s the missing piece.
BlackRock is actively working with the SEC to change that — so their ETF holdings can start generating ETH yields.
It gets deeper.
The NYSE (yes, the literal New York Stock Exchange) is also in on it, filing similar paperwork to bring ETH staking into their ecosystem.
Ask yourself: why would the NYSE care about staking Ethereum?
Answer: Money. Passive income. Control. Long-term ownership of the yield engine of the crypto space.
There’s been a deliberate campaign to paint Ethereum as inflationary — even though more ETH is burned daily than created, making it deflationary. The supply has stayed flat or declined since the burn mechanism was introduced.
Retail investors believed the FUD. They sold. Prices stayed low.
And while everyone focused on speculative meme coins — cat-dog-hat-fluffy-coin — institutions were quietly accumulating ETH like it’s the next global reserve asset.
Here’s the master plan:
- Shake retail confidence with negativity.
- Suppress prices during accumulation.
- Acquire the supply.
- Add staking to ETFs.
- Lock in forever yield with zero additional work.
If only institutions can stake ETH, they essentially control the generation of new supply. They become the monopoly printers of the world’s most used blockchain currency.
They also get all the upside once the market wakes up and prices go vertical.
Maybe not tomorrow. But if staking becomes the standard for institutional ETFs — and retail continues to sell into weakness while institutions scoop up the supply — then $100K ETH isn’t just possible.
It’s inevitable.
