One data point to the contrary: nations with best monies are also often jurisdictions with best contract platforms (ie legal sys. / desirability as corp. jurisdiction)

Many obvious reasons these might reinforce each other, might also be true for chains.

One data point to the contrary: nations with best monies are also often jurisdictions with best contract platforms (ie legal sys. / desirability as corp. jurisdiction)

Many obvious reasons these might reinforce each other, might also be true for chains.

https://x.com/QwQiao/status/1761560335981396173?s=20

I work for Ethereum at the Ethereum Foundation.

Another counterpoint to this is that the properties you seek from the money settlement layer (permissionless, censorship resistant, credible neutrality and permanent availability) can't be inherited by the financial system unless this settlement layer is Turing complete. Which allows you to settle arbitrary logic.