Osmosis co-founder questions the effectiveness of ETH staking post-merge

Osmosis Co-Founder Sunny Aggarwal has questioned the effectiveness of Ethereum’s staking model as it will not enable withdrawal of staked ETH post-merge. Currently, there are 13.7 million ETH staked on the beacon chain. According to the PoS design, the assets will remain locked until the Shanghai update goes live in the future, In a commentary…

Santiment data shows 2 addresses controlling over 45% of Ethereum transactions post-merge

Two addresses have processed over 45% of Ethereum (ETH) transactions since the blockchain network completed its transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, according to Santiment data. 📊 According to our #Ethereum Post Merge Inflation dashboard, 46.15% of the #proofofstake nodes for storing data, processing transactions, and adding new #blockchain blocks can be attributed to…

ETH falls below $1,500 as over $150M is liquidated in 24 hours

The largest liquidation candle in a month wiped out most of the gains Ethereum posted following the Merge. Following its transition to a Proof-of-Stake network, ETH touched $1,640 in what many believed would be the beginning of a rally. However, aggressive liquidation pushed its price below $1,500, with ETH standing at around $1,480 as of…

Ethereum Classic hashrate surges to over 200 TH/s post-Merge

Ethereum Classic is getting a fair share of the miners who can no longer mine Ethereum after its consensus mechanism was changed to proof-of-stake following completion of the Merge. The surge of PoW miners into Ethereum Classic post-Merge has increased its hashrate by over 250% in the last 24 hours, according to 2Miners data. As…

Charles Hoskinson points out Ethereum’s Merge changes nothing

Input Output CEO Charles Hoskinson said the Merge changes nothing in terms of performance, operating cost, and liquidity. Eth 2.0 requires Shanghai which is next year minimum by their own release schedule. My prediction is still on target. You do understand that nothing has changed in terms of performance, operating cost, nor liquidity? — Charles…

Ethereum switches to PoS after successfully completing the Merge

Ethereum (ETH) has migrated to a proof-of-stake network after the blockchain reached a terminal total difficulty of 58,750,000,000T at 06:43 UTC. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted that the Merge was a “big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem,” praising everyone who helped make it happen. And we finalized! Happy merge all. This is a big moment…

Ethereum Proof-of-Work fork set to launch 24 hours post-Merge

Ethereum proof-of-work hard fork will launch 24 hours following the Merge on September 15, according to a Twitter thread published by ETHW. ETHW Core Announced the Plan for Mainnet#ethereum #ethw #ethereummerge #ethereumfork $ethw $eth #ethpow 1/n pic.twitter.com/cnYOW6l1iU — EthereumPoW (ETHW) Official #ETHW #ETHPoW (@EthereumPoW) September 12, 2022 ETHW is the team behind the Ethereum PoW…

Ravencoin price, hashrate spike as Merge draws closer

Ravencoin (RVN) has seen its price rise over 13% in the last 24 hours to $0.06359, capping a bullish week for the token. On the seven days metrics, the proof-of-work (PoW) token spiked by almost 70% –surging from less than $0.045 to as high as $0.072– according to CryptoSlate data. Source: TradingView (CryptoSlate) Meanwhile, Ravencoin’s…