Lubin at Consensus Miami: tokenization of the entire global economy is now inevitable, not experimental.

Speaking at Consensus Miami 2026, Consensys CEO and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin declared that tokenization of virtually the entire global economy has crossed from experiment to inevitability. He traced the shift back to Ethereum's founding design choice — letting anyone issue assets without spinning up a new blockchain — arguing that early architectural decision is now paying dividends as banks and asset managers move stablecoins, Treasuries, and real-world assets onto on-chain rails.

Lubin pointed to Ethereum&#x27;s maturing stack — layer-2 scaling, synchronous composability across networks, and <a class="ticker-mention" href="/en-US/token/eth">ETH</a>&#x27;s emerging role as a &#x27;trust commodity&#x27; — as the reason traditional finance and regulators are engaging seriously with the ecosystem. &#x27;We&#x27;re now sufficiently mature to be attractive to traditional finance organisations and regulators,&#x27; he said.

He acknowledged that recent disruptions in…