According to @MilkRoadDaily, Ethereum (ETH) became the fastest major asset to reach a $500B market cap, doing so in 5.8 years (source: @MilkRoadDaily on X, Aug 23, 2025). The same source reports Apple (AAPL) took 35 years and Bitcoin (BTC) took 12 years to reach $500B, establishing ETH as the new speed benchmark on this metric among large assets (source: @MilkRoadDaily on X, Aug 23, 2025). Based on those figures, ETH reached $500B in roughly 48% of BTC’s time and about 17% of AAPL’s time, providing a concrete adoption-speed comparison traders can reference when evaluating ETH versus BTC and mega-cap equities (source: @MilkRoadDaily on X, Aug 23, 2025).