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The Institutional Case for Ethereum AND Solana

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  July 10, 2026 at 18:45  |  35:55  |  Milk Road Macro
Speakers
Nick Roberts-Huntley — Founder and CEO, Blueprint Finance

Summary

Nick Roberts-Huntley, CEO of Blueprint Finance, explains why both Ethereum and Solana are poised for new all-time highs as institutions quietly build crypto infrastructure. He outlines the different institutional adoption strategies of the two networks and describes how Blueprint unlocks yield for idle assets held in qualified custody. The conversation emphasizes that while institutional commitment is strong, meaningful price action will follow once those assets are actively deployed on-chain.

  • Nick Roberts-Huntley sees ETH reaching new all-time highs within a few years, driven by its L2 ecosystem giving institutions a safe, controlled on-ramp.
  • He argues Solana can explode higher if it pairs its business-savvy leadership with sufficient transaction density and institutional partners.
  • Institutional crypto adoption is accelerating through tokenized assets and infrastructure, but asset prices are lagging the build-out phase.
  • Blueprint Finance offers a vertically integrated DeFi platform that enables institutions to earn yield on digital assets without leaving qualified custody.
  • The real catalyst for crypto prices will be the moment large pools of institutional capital start actively generating on-chain economic activity.
  • Long-duration institutional capital may alter market dynamics away from short-term speculation toward more durable, fundamentals-driven cycles.
Ideas
Nick Roberts-Huntley Founder and CEO, Blueprint Finance 0:00
ETH approaches new all-time highs.
Ethereum has a large ecosystem of businesses and a growing set of L2s that allow institutions to containerize their usage, creating a sense of safety and trust. This institutional on-ramp, combined with academic rigor and the maturation of real-world asset tokenization, will comfortably push ETH to new all-time highs within the next couple of years.
Nick Roberts-Huntley Founder and CEO, Blueprint Finance 0:00
Solana can go through the roof.
Solana has the strongest business operators among blockchains, understands how to run a network as a business, and has captured momentum from retail cycles like memecoins. If Solana gets the right density of transaction volume and the right institutional partners, it has the capacity to go through the roof as a single high-throughput network.
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This Milk Road Macro video, published July 10, 2026, features Nick Roberts-Huntley discussing ETH, SOL. 2 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.

Speakers: Nick Roberts-Huntley  · Tickers: ETH, SOL