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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Ethereum has achieved groundbreaking technological success, but has it failed to properly define ETH the asset?
In this episode, Frax founder Sam Kazemian joins us to discuss what he believes is Ethereum’s biggest mistake: confusing the ETH asset with Ethereum the technology. Sam argues that post-EIP-1559 and Proof of Stake, ETH unintentionally shifted toward a discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation model, undermining its potential as a commodity-like store of value.
We explore how the Ethereum community can reclaim a stronger narrative around ETH and why social consensus — not just tech — determines an asset’s destiny.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
4:43 Classifying ETH
17:50 ETH/BTC Collapse
33:39 ETH Revenues
44:35 Blue-Money Gospel
53:44 What ETH Needs
1:10:08 ETH Internet Bond Narrative
1:19:49 Final Thoughts
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RESOURCES
Sam Kazemian
https://x.com/samkazemian
Blue-Money Gospel
https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1915874994514452763
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0:00.0 | If we don't make sure that Ethereum is used as store value, |
0:05.0 | and two, if we don't make sure that Ethereum, |
0:08.0 | the technology, right, the settlement layer, |
0:10.0 | is not this fundamental ledger we've lost. |
0:20.0 | Welcome to Bankless. We explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
0:24.6 | Today on Bankless, we're exploring the topic of ETH, the asset. |
0:27.6 | How should it be positioned? How do we talk about ETH? How should we understand it? |
0:32.6 | These conversations, of course, about ETHR are not new, but the one you are going to hear today from Sam Kazanian pitches a specific and different path for the conversation around |
0:41.8 | Heath than what the Ethereum community has been discussing for the past few years. |
0:45.8 | Sam thinks that any and all things related to valuing ETH as a DCF, a discounted cash flow |
0:51.8 | model is bad, and we should stop doing it immediately. |
0:55.5 | He thinks that we ought to talk about ETH exclusively as a store of value commodity money |
0:59.3 | representing a huge cultural solution to the malaise of ETH's valuation. |
1:04.0 | And any further effort spent on DCFing ETH will only continue to sink the price versus the |
1:10.0 | rest of the market. |
1:10.8 | I find Sam's points that are pretty interesting. |
1:13.4 | I'm going to think about them more and more over the coming weeks and months. |
1:16.7 | And I think this is a conversation that the Ethereum community ought to have as well. |
1:20.1 | So let's go ahead and get right into this conversation with Sam Kazmian from FRAX. |
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