ether.fi

Mike Silagadze, ether.fi's CEO, is recruiting for a CEO of ether.fi for Business, calling it an opportunity of a lifetime for the right candidate and hinting the hire would come with their own team.

• The posting suggests an ownership-style leadership role for the company's business-oriented products
• Frames the role as a chance to build out ether.fi's enterprise/business side as the neobank expands its product line

ether.fi introduced Liquid Bold USD, a new vault focused on higher-reward yield positioned alongside its more conservative vaults, built with launch partner Cap and powered by MidasRWA. ether.fi notes the two companies have a long history — collaborating on institutional restaking with M11Credit and Symbiotic, and depositing into Cap's protocol for some time — and frames Liquid Bold USD as the next chapter in that relationship.

ether.fi announced a partnership with Concrete to advance multi-asset vault infrastructure, combining ether.fi's ecosystem with Concrete's vault architecture, strategy execution, and risk management expertise. ether.fi framed the collaboration as another step toward institutional-grade onchain finance.

ether.fi launched @names, a handle system that replaces wallet addresses for sending money in the app. Users claim a name, then pay anyone and get paid by tagging that name — no address required, as ether.fi reiterated in its feature roundup.

• One name per account, and it cannot be changed after claiming
• Handle length depends on plan tier: VIP gets 3 characters, Pinnacle 4, Luxe 5, and Core 6
• Short names are limited and being claimed first

ether.fi rolled out account statements for personal and business accounts. Users can download their transaction history — for any date range — as a PDF or CSV from Transaction history → Export, and can also download proof-of-ownership documents, making it easy to share a clean record with a landlord or accountant.

• Available for both personal and business accounts
• Exports as PDF or CSV with flexible date ranges, as recapped in ether.fi's three-feature update
• Adds straightforward record-keeping alongside ether.fi's card, borrowing and AI account tools

ether.fi users can connect their account to AI Connect and ask read-only questions about their activity — auditing subscriptions, breaking down a trip's spending, or flagging suspicious charges — through assistants like Claude and ChatGPT. The connection uses MCP, is enabled from Accounts Settings, and works with any MCP-capable assistant to read transactions, cards, and balances.

The connection is read-only: the assistant can't spend or move anything, and users approve what it sees and can disconnect anytime. ether.fi recapped the feature as part of its three-part update alongside @name tags and downloadable statements — the thread's lead item.

ether.fi now supports ZCHF, the Swiss franc stablecoin, across its app. Users can spend it with the ether.fi card and earn cashback, borrow USDC against it, or use it to buy stocks.

Built with partners Frankencoin and MtPelerin, the integration targets ether.fi's Swiss members and adds another native stablecoin alongside the platform's existing listings.

ether.fi said it is aware of the Binance hack and has no direct exposure, reassuring that user funds are safe. The statement confirms the neobank's holdings were not caught up in the exchange security incident.

ether.fi's weETH liquid staking token can now be used as collateral to trade perpetual futures on Lighter, the zk-rollup order-book perps DEX built on Ethereum. Traders can post their weETH position as margin for leveraged trades.

• Extends weETH utility beyond staking and DeFi lending into leveraged trading on Lighter
• Part of ether.fi's continued push to expand where weETH can be used as collateral across trading venues

ether.fi has acquired Zeal, the self-custodial crypto wallet, and Zeal users can now migrate to ether.fi directly inside the Zeal app. ether.fi clarified that the deal covers selected Zeal assets — not user accounts, keys or funds.

• Migrating users get access to ether.fi's full product set: borrowing against their portfolio, earning, trading tokenized stocks and gold, and spending in 199 countries with up to 4% cashback
• The acquisition folds Zeal's wallet user base into ether.fi's broader neobank-style account, following a stretch of product launches spanning stablecoins, vault spending, and AI account tools