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EEA | Is Your Digital Asset Team Ready for Ethereum’s Next Upgrade?
Ethereum Intelligence, NYC Events
Redwan Meslem
November 03, 2026
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🧠 Ethereum Intelligence: Is your digital assets team getting the most out of Ethereum?
Which Ethereum upgrades require your team to change its systems? How can you keep transactions private? And which architecture fits your institution’s requirements? How can you benefit from the Fast Confirmation Rule?
EEA Ethereum Intelligence brings institutional teams together with Ethereum researchers and engineers to answer these questions, providing a neutral view of the available approaches and their tradeoffs.
Across our September and October pilot briefings, 12 global firms and more than 30 digital asset and blockchain leaders participated. The sessions are reserved for digital asset teams at financial institutions and large enterprises.
On November 17, join our final open pilot briefing before the program becomes private for paid participants.
We’ll cover two practical topics:
Preparing for Glamsterdam: Could changes to gas pricing cause your transactions to fail? What should your team test and update?
Choosing a privacy architecture: How can you keep transaction details confidential while preserving audit and compliance access? What tradeoffs should guide your choice?
Experts from EthSystems, drawing on their work designing institutional architectures and private use cases on Ethereum, will walk through the privacy approaches. Participants can also submit anonymous questions.
November 17 · 10 a.m. ET · One hour on Zoom → Apply to join
Join the program in 2027
From 2027, Ethereum Intelligence will be a paid members-only program where your team can continue learning directly from Ethereum practitioners and ask questions of our network of experts, those building the Ethereum you will use tomorrow.
We’re seeing growing interest in the next cohort. Organizations that commit by December 31, 2026 can join on founding terms.
🌐 The Landscape: Developments Worth Watching
Crypto policy: SEC grants temporary 5-year exemption allowing Tokenized Securities Venues to trade tokenized US stocks via permissioned AMM Liquidity Pools on public blockchains.
Ethereum’s technical roadmap: Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi network was postponed on October 22. Here is a great write up on how to anticipate Glamsterdam’s impact on your digital asset strategy.
J.P. Morgan deployed JPM Coin on Ethereum Mainnet in addition to Base, showing that you can have regulated RWA on public infrastructure.
DTCC has launched its tokenisation platform with 34 securities and 20 participants on Besu and Canton.
Follow policy developments through EEA Digital Asset Policy Monitor.
🗽📅 Events Coming Up
Nov. 6 @ NYC | Fireside Chat w/ DTCC Digital Assets CTO
We're co-hosting an invitation-only morning gathering with The Rollup in NYC.
Dan Doney, Chief Technology Officer at DTCC Digital Assets, will join Redwan for a fireside chat.
Limited slots.
Nov. 13 | Digital Assets Forum New York
EEA will also be at Digital Assets Forum New York, which brings together financial institutions, asset managers, and digital asset leaders.
EEA members and our broader community can receive 15% off tickets with code DAFNYEEA. → Explore the event
Nov. 17 @Zoom | Ethereum Intelligence Briefing #03
Ethereum Foundation, EEA, EthLabs, Ethereum Institutional, EthSystems, Protocol Guild…
Ethereum’s ecosystem can be daunting to navigate given the number of organizations and actors involved. The EEA serves as a nonprofit, credibly neutral entry point, helping institutions find the right expertise, collaborate under antitrust safeguards, and connect with the broader ecosystem.
Those are exactly the questions we're addressing through the Ethereum Intelligence program and we built this diagram to help.
🌟 EEA Members
We’re pleased to welcome Ethena and ZKsync back for another year, and Bermuda Bay as a new EEA member.
Ethena has continued expanding its ecosystem, including recent developments around USDe distribution, institutional lending, and Ethena Pay.
ZKsync also renewed its membership. The team recently introduced Prividium Commander, a product designed to give institutions greater control over digital asset operations, bringing infrastructure, governance, and integration capabilities together.
We're also excited to welcome Bermuda Bay to the EEA community.
Bermuda Bay focuses on modular privacy and compliance infrastructure. Here is their DvP demo inspired by the DTCC Appchain use cases.
📁 About EEA
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) is a New York City–based nonprofit dedicated to advancing institutional adoption of Ethereum through education, strategic intelligence, open standards, and its member network.
The EEA newsletter connects 9,000+ subscribers across global finance and the Ethereum ecosystem.
Our audience spans 24 of the world’s 29 global systemically important banking groups, including G-SIBs, as well as exchanges, market-infrastructure groups and global asset managers.