Of course you don't need ETH for the following, however:

I still think there is value in bypassing Wall St to access investment opportunities without the whole "accredited investor" nonsense, SEC, etc. Of course that opens up the door to ICO scam season but humans will adapt to new realities. Would likely result in more personal connections (reduce scams) and localized business financed thru tokenized shares. Think micro-industries. Localized 3D printer manufacturing. Small farms that grow real food lol.

There is also value in P2P, non-custodial exchanges.

Then there are real estate titles, legal records such as wills, scientific findings, personal verifiers, etc, that could be encoded into a P2P immutable ledger in order to wean off reliance on "essential" government services.

You kinda have to do an archeological dig to clean up all the rot and technical nonsensery in order to get to a pure vision but there is value. Now the Q is how/where to build this vision.

Thoughts? And GM!