Ethereum 2.0


Tech

Ethereum After the Merge: What Comes Next?

Post-Merge, the Surge, the Verge, the Purge and the Splurge will continue to make Ethereum's proof-of-stake blockchain more scalable and secure.

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Finance

AntPool Supports Ethereum Classic Ecosystem With $10M Investment

The mining pool is throwing its weight behind the Ethereum-offshoot alternative that will continue to mine using proof-of-work.

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Markets

Celsius Reclaims $410M of 'stETH' Tokens After Paying Down $81M Debt to Aave

The embattled crypto lender Celsius is inching closer to fully paying off its loans from decentralized finance protocols, reducing its outstanding debt to $59 million.

Alex Mashinsky, founder and CEO of Celsius Network, at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum's Sepolia Testnet Successfully Switches to Proof-of-Stake

The Sepolia proof-of-work chain merged with its proof-of-stake chain on Wednesday, taking Ethereum one step closer to its own Merge moment.

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Ethereum's Gray Glacier (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Difficulty Bomb)

The delay of Ethereum’s Difficulty Bomb suggests the network’s Merge to proof-of-stake might be a bit further away than hoped.

"Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964), directed by Stanley Kubrick, distributed by Columbia Pictures

Tech

Sell the Ethereum Merge

Many market participants think the highly anticipated Ethereum Merge will be bullish for ETH. The opposite is more likely.

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Crypto Market Chaos: No, Lido Is Not ‘the Next Terra’

After over $1 billion in liquidations in just 24 hours, DeFi’s wild west period may be drawing to a close – but not everything’s a sham.

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Opinion

How Much ETH Does Joe Lubin Hold?

As Ethereum gears up for the switch to proof-of-stake, how the network’s tokens have been distributed comes back into focus.

ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin speaks at ETHDenver 2022 (Chet Strange/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Videos

Joe Lubin on How Much ETH He and ConsenSys Controls on Ethereum

Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin says he and ConsenSys have never controlled more than half a percent of the total supply of ethereum. Plus, he responds to concerns of staked ETH centralization, given that third-party staking providers control a majority of the staked ETH supply.

Eth 2.0: Ethereum Merge Explained

Videos

Ethereum Successfuly Completes Ropsten Testnet Merge

The Ethereum blockchain’s first dress rehearsal for its upcoming merge was successfully completed on Wednesday. Gitcoin.co Founder Kevin Owocki discusses the significance, along with this views on how crypto can do good for the world.

Eth 2.0: Ethereum Merge Explained