Debate: Is Ethereum Ready for Real World Assets? | Omid Malekan vs Austin Campbell (Crypto Professors)

Austin Campbell (NYU) and Omid Malekan (Columbia) debate a simple question: is Ethereum ready to host real-world assets?

They walk through stress tests—what if an exchange is hacked, a stablecoin breaks, or a court order targets the chain—and whether the network should ever step in.

You’ll hear where they agree and disagree, what protections are realistic today, and what still needs to be built before RWAs can scale.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

6:13 Twitter Debate Genesis

8:58 Bybit Hack

17:56 Crypto vs RWA Immutability

29:29 Ethereum Validator Intervention

33:11 Dealing with Multiple Jurisdictions

52:23 Credible Neutrality for a Multipolar World

1:00:32 Blockchain Use Cases

1:13:40 Consortium Chains

1:24:57 Closing Arguments

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RESOURCES

Omid Malekan

https://x.com/malekanoms 

https://www.omidmalekan.com/ 

Austin Campbell

https://x.com/campbelljaustin 

https://zero-in.beehiiv.com/ 

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