Former Blackrock Executive Defends Ethereum as Solana’s Validator Count Shrinks to 800
Sharplink co-CEO Joseph Chalom, a former Blackrock executive, has pushed back on claims that Ethereum has a “culture problem,” arguing its 900,000-plus validators and one million-plus developers give it a decentralizatio...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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Ethereum is showing up inside the Institutional Adoption theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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