February tenth, 2026 – New York, United States
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance at present introduced that Polygon Labs, Ethena, and Nethermind have joined the Alliance as members, reflecting the consolidation of Ethereum’s institutional infrastructure throughout funds, monetary primitives, and protocol engineering.
The EEA is the institutional coordination layer for Ethereum – the impartial desk the place enterprises, infrastructure suppliers, and protocol groups align on how Ethereum is utilized in regulated, large-scale environments. With IPR, NDA, and antitrust protections in place, the Alliance allows coordination that can’t occur elsewhere.
“Ethereum’s institutional stack is being constructed by the groups on this room. These aren’t corporations experimenting with blockchain. They’re constructing the infrastructure establishments will run on. The EEA is the place that work will get related to enterprise necessities—with out the business conflicts that sluggish every thing else down.” — Redwan Meslem, Govt Director, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
Polygon: Constructing World Fee Rails
Polygon Labs just lately introduced definitive agreements to accumulate Coinme and Sequence for greater than $250 million, increasing its footprint in regulated stablecoin funds and onchain monetary companies. Along with Polygon, these capabilities type the Open Cash Stack, an built-in set of companies and applied sciences designed to maneuver cash immediately, reliably, and compliantly between conventional monetary techniques and onchain rails.
“Polygon processed greater than $7 billion in stablecoin funds in a single month. That degree of quantity displays actual fee infrastructure in use at present. Becoming a member of the EEA allows us to companion with enterprises on international settlement, service provider entry, and compliant rails.” — Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs
Polygon Chain processed greater than $7 billion in peer to look stablecoin quantity in November 2025 alone and helps main institutional deployments, together with BlackRock’s BUIDL fund. As a member of the EEA, Polygon will contribute to discussions on funds infrastructure and institutional adoption.
Nethermind: Securing Ethereum’s Execution Layer
Nethermind is a protocol engineering and analysis crew that builds and maintains execution-layer infrastructure and safety tooling used to run Ethereum in manufacturing. Our work focuses on the institutional necessities that decide whether or not techniques may be deployed safely at scale, together with efficiency below load, improve readiness, and verifiable safety.
Inside the EEA, Nethermind strengthens technical working teams with implementation experience throughout protocol engineering and safety evaluation, serving to members transfer from enterprise necessities to dependable, testable deployments.
“Enterprises want implementation companions who perceive protocol-level danger, efficiency constraints, and improve actuality. Nethermind brings execution engineering and safety depth to the EEA, serving to members ship dependable Ethereum deployments.” — Nitin Gaur, Head of Institutional Monetary Merchandise, Nethermind
Ethena: Scaling DeFi-Native Monetary Infrastructure
Ethena’s USDe grew to become the quickest digital greenback asset in historical past to succeed in $10 billion in complete worth locked, attaining that milestone in 500 days. The protocol’s artificial greenback method provides an alternative choice to conventional fiat-backed stablecoins, with functions spanning treasury administration and reward methods. Ethena’s membership within the EEA helps its engagement with institutional stakeholders navigating onchain monetary infrastructure.
“USDe reached $10 billion quicker than any stablecoin in historical past as a result of establishments need rewards and transparency. The EEA offers us a seat on the desk with the enterprises exploring how DeFi-native devices match into regulated workflows.” — Miguel de Sousa, Advertising and marketing Lead, Ethena
Concerning the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
The EEA is a member-led business group and the institutional coordination layer for Ethereum. The Alliance brings collectively enterprises, know-how suppliers, and establishments to allow peer collaboration, floor necessities, and join with the Ethereum open-source group – with governance protections that make coordination secure.
About Polygon
Polygon Labs is a worldwide blockchain funds firm constructing and working infrastructure to maneuver cash immediately, reliably, and at web scale, with the mission to maneuver all cash onchain. It’s constructing the Polygon Open Cash Stack, an open and built-in stack of companies and applied sciences to immediately and reliably transfer cash wherever, and put it to work. Its infrastructure has facilitated trillions of {dollars} in onchain worth switch and supported thousands and thousands of transactions each day for a number of the globe’s largest banks, fintechs, enterprises, and shopper functions.
About Ethena
Athena is an artificial greenback protocol constructed on Ethereum that gives a crypto-native answer for cash, USDe, alongside a globally accessible greenback financial savings asset, sUSDe.
Ethena’s artificial greenback, USDe, supplies the crypto-native, scalable answer for cash achieved by delta-hedging Bitcoin, Ethereum and different governance-approved spot belongings utilizing perpetual and deliverable futures contracts, in addition to holding liquid stables comparable to USDC and USDT.
USDe is fully-backed (topic to the dialogue within the Dangers part relating to occasions doubtlessly leading to lack of backing) and free to compose all through CeFi & DeFi.
About Nethermind
Nethermind builds and secures core Ethereum infrastructure.
They develop the Nethermind execution shopper, contribute to community upgrades, and ship protocol-level work throughout rollups, zero-knowledge techniques, and cross-chain structure. Our safety crew audits good contracts, ZK circuits, and off-chain parts, with formal verification capabilities for vital techniques.
They preserve deep experience throughout the complete stack—from shopper optimization to open-source tooling—backed by steady contributions to Ethereum’s evolution. As blockchain intersects with AI, we’re growing {hardware} that anchors digital identification in verifiable biometrics with cryptographic privateness ensures.
Contact
Radha Mathur
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
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