Paul Brody and Yorke Rhodes III, respectively Chairman and Director on the EEA had been on stage for Digital Asset Summit 2025
“We did a survey at EY, switching from conventional cost rails to stablecoins may save $100M/Yr”
Paul
“Now we have to construct for enterprises and cater to them, that is the subsequent step”
Pedro

The latest panel at DAS that includes trade leaders from EY, Microsoft, WalletConnect, and Blockdaemon revealed vital insights about enterprise adoption of digital property. As regulatory readability improves in 2025, right here’s why Ethereum is positioning because the dominant enterprise blockchain resolution.

“You possibly can lower operational administrative prices for transactions by one thing on the order of 90% if you are able to do on-chain transactions on crypto rails at scale.” – Paul Brody (EY)

“We all know that we will cut back the cycle time to manage contracts actually by 99%… We did an EY and Microsoft work collectively. We automated the Xbox online game procurement community. Minimize cycle time from 45 days to 4 minutes.” – Paul Brody (EY)

“At EY, we estimated if we may transfer all of our funds on-chain to stablecoins, we may save ourselves about $100 million a yr.” – Paul Brody (EY)

1. Privateness Options “On public chains there isn’t any privateness but… the power to have privateness at scale on public chains, which is one thing we’re actually simply attending to now, is extraordinarily essential for any massive scale implementation.” – Paul Brody (EY)
2. Layer 2 Evolution “The L2 panorama actually permits for purposes to be constructed that mix plenty of the issues we’ve talked about round privateness however primarily based on a public type of infrastructure community.” – Konstantin Richter (Blockdaemon)
3. Maturing Ecosystem “There’s been a giant shift for builders within the ecosystem… enterprise was once virtually like a grimy phrase for these builders, and now it really has turn out to be very enticing and it shifted their priorities.” – Pedro Gomez (WalletConnect)

1. Stock Traceability “Should you tokenize the stock, you’ll be able to apply all of the rigor of a financial institution to a single penny to each single piece of your stock, and the result’s decrease stock.” – Paul Brody (EY)
2. Provide Chain Finance “When you have a excessive capital worth in bodily property and you are able to do issues to make settlement extra environment friendly… you’ll be able to really get a really massive monetary profit.” – Jörg Rhodes (Microsoft)
3. Stablecoin Funds “The white paper for Bitcoin was about funds and I believe that’s the most tasty use case… now we have already seen WalletConnect has labored with Shopify and Stripe to construct nice checkout experiences.” – Pedro Gomez (WalletConnect)

“Regulation is shifting us away from multi-channel, multi-platform, multi-blockchain techniques… regulatory strain plus requirements strain is driving in the direction of a a lot smaller variety of ecosystems. And I believe we’ll see a sample in crypto that appears very very similar to the patterns that we see in different expertise industries. We’re gonna have a dominant platform, it’s Ethereum.” – Paul Brody (EY)

With regulatory readability bettering in 2025, enterprises are positioned to speed up blockchain adoption, notably on Ethereum. As privateness options mature and Layer 2 networks evolve, we’ll see extra large-scale implementations that remodel how companies function, particularly in stock administration, funds, and provide chain optimization.

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance continues to cleared the path in establishing requirements and greatest practices for enterprise blockchain adoption, serving to organizations navigate the evolving digital asset panorama.