A list of incredible projects in Ethereum
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Here's a list of incredible projects in Ethereum: There's ZKP2P, which runs on the Base execution protocol. It allows any web event to be used as an input in a self-executing smart contract. That means a payment on Web2 or a centralized payment system like Venmo or Revolut can be used — trustlessly — to execute a token swap on Ethereum. It's permissionless, it's trust-minimized, and it works by proving fiat payments without exposing any private data. In other words, this becomes an on-ramp that doesn’t require a centralized peer-to-peer fiat-to-crypto platform. It just uses Ethereum. The next project I’m very interested in is Aztec Network. This is a rollup-based execution protocol that settles to Ethereum and is built from the ground up to allow privacy. Privacy is the biggest missing element right now in the blockchain space, and Aztec has completely committed itself to making it a normal part of blockchain-based finance. It lets developers build smart contracts where inputs and outputs are encrypted by default, using a system they’ve built around their custom AVM and the Noir language. It’s aiming to make privacy programmable, not just bolt it on. Next up is Tornado Cash. Tornado Cash is the most widely adopted privacy protocol in the world. It’s also suffered the most intense state-level attack any protocol has ever faced. The U.S. government actually sanctioned it, adding immutable smart contract addresses to its SDN list. Those sanctions were later struck down in federal court after a long legal fight. Developers were criminally charged under the previous administration, and those charges may now be on the way out under the new Republican administration. But regardless of how the cases unfold, the sheer intensity of the attack shows the potential that Tornado Cash has to disrupt global finance. Ethereum already lets people transact peer-to-peer by default. But when you add privacy, those peer-to-peer payments become usable in any context. You can pay your contractor, your barber, your rent, or your coffee — without exposing sensitive financial history to your counterparty. The next one I'm very interested in is MegaETH. MegaETH is a totally modular project — really a full execution environment — that uses EigenLayer and EigenDA for its data availability. Validation and consensus are handled by Ethereum, and execution is done on its own high-throughput EVM. By taking the best from every part of the modular stack, it achieves the greatest scalability of any blockchain in history, all while staying fully Ethereum-aligned. Even its off-chain data availability is cryptoeconomically secured via restaked Ether. EigenLayer shows that Ethereum’s modular scaling roadmap isn’t just feasible — it allows for a system that will eventually exceed the scalability of centralized Web2 apps. And it proves that restaked ETH can act as economic glue, aligning off-chain systems with Ethereum’s trust model. The next project I’m very excited about is the ZKVM being created by RISC Zero using RISC-V. They’re building a system that can prove an entire Ethereum block with a zero-knowledge proof. That means even very lightweight devices will be able to validate full Ethereum blocks without running a full node. That opens the door to Ethereum eventually scaling to 10,000 transactions per second, without compromising hardware accessibility or end-user verifiability. Then there’s Base. Base is right now the leading Ethereum execution protocol. It rolls up on Ethereum using the Optimism stack. It has no token, so it’s fully ETH-aligned, and it’s backed by Coinbase — arguably the most important company in crypto. Base is proving that the Ethereum scaling roadmap is the best in the world, and it’s bringing Ethereum’s magic to the entire world. Coinbase’s laser focus on UX is essential, especially now that scalability bottlenecks have been largely solved with the maturation of the rollup construct. And finally, BlackRock’s BUIDL fund. This one might be the most institutionally important. BlackRock launched a tokenized fund — on Ethereum. It holds U.S. Treasuries, distributes yield daily, and it already surpassed $1.5 billion in assets. It’s the first time the world’s largest asset manager issued a fund directly on a public blockchain. That’s not just adoption — it’s anchoring traditional finance to Ethereum. And it signals that the Ethereum settlement layer is credible enough for institutions managing trillions. It’s hard to overstate how big that is. There are many more Ethereum projects that I am very excited about, but these are the first few that come to mind. submitted by /u/aminok |
