Nansen Reports Five Entities Control About 64% Of Staked Ether
The long-awaited Ethereum upgrade, the Merge, has been released. With the transition from PoW to PoS network, the Ethereum blockchain will become more energy efficient. Also, miners will cease to be the validators on the network. Instead, stakers will finally take over the validation and security maintenance role of the Ethereum blockchain. Related Reading: Why […]
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New report by Nansen delves into the distribution of staked ETH, respective holders and possible ramifications as The Merge looms. A report from blockchain analytics platform Nansen highlights five entities that hold 64% of staked Ether (ETH) ahead of Ethereum’s highly anticipated Merge with the Beacon chain.Ethereum’s shift from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake is set to take place in the coming days after final updates and shadow forks were completed in early September. The key component of The Merge sees miners no longer used as validators, replaced by stakers that commit ETH to maintain....
The Eth2 staking contract is now the single-largest address by Ether holdings. The staking contract for the Ethereum 2.0 blockchain is now the single-largest holder of Ether.According to blockchain analytics provider Nansen, the Eth2 staking contract has surpassed Wrapped Ethereum (wETH) to become the single largest holder of ETH. Unlike Ether, Wrapped Ether adheres to the ERC-20 standard, making it the favored representation of ETH among DeFi protocols that use ERC-20 tokens.The findings were posted to Twitter by Alex Svanevik, CEO of blockchain analytics firm, Nansen, on Aug. 17. The....
Presently, the staking contract of Eth2 has become the largest holder of Ethereum. Moreover, it is compliant with ERC-20 standards and leads the other projects using the same tokens. The blockchain analytics source Nansen carries that the staking contract of Eth2 has exceeded that of WETH (Wrapped Ethereum) and is now the largest single Eher holder. Furthermore, unlike Eth, wrapped Ether meets the ERC-20 standard, making it the best ETH representation champion amidst decentralized finance projects that employ ERC-20 tokens. Related Reading | Microsoft To Fight Piracy With Ethereum,....
Data released hours after the Merge prompted concerns about the alleged centralization of PoS. Analysis from Santiment indicates that 46.15% of Ethereum’s PoS nodes are controlled by only 2 addresses.Hours after the Merge, the first address has validated about 188 blocks or 28.97% of the nodes, and the second has validated 16.18%, or 105 blocks. On Twitter, the data became a controversial topic as users debated about the impact of the Merge on centralization for the largest network in the world. According to our #Ethereum Post Merge Inflation dashboard, 46.15% of the #proofofstake nodes....
Blue Chip NFT collections such as Azuki, Clone X and Doodles are leading the growth of the steady growth of a market that has traded over $17 billion. On Tuesday, blockchain data analytics platform Nansen released its quarterly report on the state of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. The report highlighted the rapid growth of the NFT market over that of the cryptocurrency market year-to-date, and it predicts of an $80 million market cap by 2025. As Cointelegraph previously reported, Nansen recently released six NFT indexes weighted by market capitalization denominated in Ether (ETH): Nansen....