Govt Bonds on Ethereum? Risk Perception is BROKEN! #shorts

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]We have governments issuing bonds and debt on chain, and this shows a broad adoption of these DeFi technologies.

[00:00:10]Well, I offer this to the audience. If you have a government or the World Bank that is issuing a triple-A rated bond instrument, a 7-year bond paying 5% rated triple-A, and they decide to issue this particular instrument at the highest rating quality, even higher than the rating quality of the United States, on Ethereum. How is it that me as a asset manager can look at Ethereum and say Ethereum is a risky asset and therefore risk on, but the triple-A rated debt that has an issuance of $500 million, $1 billion maintains the highest credit rating in all of finance?

[00:00:53]My background is in traditional finance.

[00:00:55]We call that an incongruity. It's not possible. And I think over time asset managers are going to come to realize that these foundational rails that exist from the world of DeFi are actually less risky