THE COST OF SECURITY

What ETH must be worth to back the world
ETH spot connecting…
$1,995
Staked
≈ 34.5M ETH
Security budget
$69B
Stablecoins on ETH
≈ $135B

The chain is only as safe as the ETH that guards it.

Ethereum settles the world's digital dollars. The cost to attack it is the value of staked ETH — so as the world's money moves on-chain, the price required to keep it secure isn't speculation. It's arithmetic.

Required ETH price by value secured
⅔ SAFETY THRESHOLD · 2× MARGIN
Implied ETHUSD — the climb
LOG-SCALE / USD
staking ratio ~29% supply 120.7M ETH safety margin attack cost ⅔ × staked
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Every flag is a future ledger entry. When a nation's stablecoins, treasuries, and settlement rails live on Ethereum, its monetary weight becomes ETH's security floor. Today ETH guards ~$135B in stablecoins on a ~$69B budget. The world hasn't arrived yet — and the price hasn't either.

Educational model, not financial advice. Required price = (value secured × margin) ÷ (⅔ × staking ratio × supply). Slashing & acquisition slippage make real attack cost higher, so figures are conservative.