Chain profile
Blockchain-native
Ethereum.
Abstract. Ethereum Foundation (protocol research + core-dev grants; protocol itself is permissionless and operated by the validator set) — VERIFY current Foundation role at ethereum.foundation
Facts
Chain identity at a glance.
- Type
L1
- Native settlement
- ETH · USDC · EURC · USDT · DAI · PYUSD
- Account model
- EOA (secp256k1) + ERC-4337 (account abstraction via EntryPoint singleton + UserOperation mempool; paymaster + aggregator extensions)
Vendor stack · L5 → L1
The 5-layer Stable Stack.
Each row is one named vendor slot from the chain's vendorStack. Solid markers are code-enforced
(the chain blocks or signs); dashed markers are
policy-enforced (the chain flags, humans or systems act on
the signal).
L5 → L1 — application down to network
L5 · Application
wallet
MetaMask · MetaMask Institutional (ConsenSys-operated; institutional custody/MPC integrations) · Fireblocks · Safe (Gnosis Safe — multisig + module framework)
C1 ◇ policy-enforced
tokenized-securities-ats
Securitize Markets ATS (SEC-registered ATS — VERIFY current Form ATS / ATS-N filing date and operator entity) · INX Securities ATS (VERIFY current ATS status)
C13C8 ◇ policy-enforced
tokenized-rwa-issuer
BlackRock BUIDL · Franklin BENJI · Hashnote USYC · Ondo OUSG · Apollo ACRED (Ethereum mainnet deployments — VERIFY per-issuer current chain coverage at rwa.xyz; issuer profiles carry SEC-registered / NYDFS limited-purpose trust / Reg D 506(c) postures detailed in the respective compliance frameworks)
C13C14C8 ◇ policy-enforced
L4 · Account
account
EOA (secp256k1 externally-owned accounts) + ERC-4337 account abstraction (EntryPoint singleton + UserOperation mempool — paymaster and aggregator extensions)
C1 ◆ code-enforced
transfer-agent
Securitize LLC (SEC-registered transfer agent — VERIFY Form TA-1 file number; runs Reg D 506(c)(2)(ii) accredited-investor verification workflow) — off-chain compliance function paired with on-chain DS Protocol enforcement
C1C11 ◇ policy-enforced
restaking
EigenLayer (restaking primitive — slashing-conditional re-pledge of staked ETH and LSTs to Actively Validated Services; compliance-relevant for AVSs that supply oracle / fast-finality / DA security to downstream protocols — VERIFY current AVS roster)
C10 ◆ code-enforced
L3 · Execution
swap
Uniswap v4 (extensible AMM — concentrated liquidity + custom-logic extension framework) · Curve · Balancer
C13C16 ◆ code-enforced
sanctions-oracle
Chainalysis OFAC Oracle (on-chain SDN-list enforcement primitive · code-enforced at the contract layer for opt-in callers)
C2 ◆ code-enforced
bridge
Circle CCTP v2 (canonical USDC burn-and-mint cross-chain transport) · Wormhole · LayerZero · Across (intent-based settlement)
C7 ◆ code-enforced
transfer-restriction
Securitize DS Protocol (on-chain transfer-restriction smart-contract framework enforcing eligible-investor whitelisting) · ERC-3643 / T-REX (industry-standard permissioned-token framework — Tokeny-developed, used by issuers outside the Securitize stack)
C1C13C16 ◆ code-enforced
L2 · Consensus
consensus
Ethereum Proof-of-Stake (Beacon Chain — Casper FFG finality + LMD-GHOST fork choice) — permissionless 32-ETH stake threshold; effective validator economics concentrated via Lido / Coinbase / Binance / Kraken / Figment staking pools (VERIFY current concentration at beaconcha.in / rated.network)
C10 ◆ code-enforced
block-construction
MEV-Boost relays (Proposer-Builder Separation — out-of-protocol; OFAC-compliant relays Flashbots / BloXroute Regulated have periodically dominated relay share — VERIFY current relay shares and censorship breakdown at mevwatch.info or successor dashboard)
C2C10 ◇ policy-enforced
L1 · Network
network
Ethereum devp2p / libp2p transport · EIP-4844 blob-data DA layer (canonical DA for OP Stack and other rollup-based L2s — Base, Arc, Tempo, Arbitrum, Optimism, etc.)
◆ code-enforced
Fig. 1 —
Vendor slot per layer; solid border = code-enforced, dashed
border = policy-enforced.
Bridges supported
Cross-chain transport surface.
- CCTP v2 (canonical USDC burn-and-mint)
- Wormhole
- LayerZero
- Across
- Native L2 canonical bridges (OP Stack — Base / Arc / Tempo; Arbitrum; ZK rollups — VERIFY which are bidirectionally exposed in registry paths)
Related paths
Paths that route through Ethereum.
Compliance paths whose settlementChains
include ethereum or whose steps execute
on this chain.
Source
Where the truth lives.
compliance/registries/chains/ethereum.ts —
full discipline header, sources, and per-field VERIFY
inventory live in the chain-profile source file. See the path resolver to see
this chain in a resolved compliance journey.
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