Ethereum: Shanghai Upgrade Gonna Be Big For The Price
With the “Merge” and the accompanying change to proof of stake, the Ethereum blockchain received arguably the most crucial and largest upgrade of all time on September 15. With “Shanghai”, however, the next upgrade is already just around the corner. After a month-long break, Ethereum developers met last Friday for their 148th All Core Developers (ACD) meeting. Chaired by Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation, the developers discussed the plans for Shanghai. Together, they found consensus that Shanghai should include, at a minimum, the withdrawal of staked ETH (EIP....
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After recording a spike following the enticing yields of Ethereum (ETH) liquid staking platforms such as Lido offers, Ethereum total staking deposit is beginning to see a plummet just a few days before the Shanghai launch which is set to take place on April 12. This dip was initially revealed by on-chain analytics provider Glassnode on April 9 in a report disclosing the current state of the Ethereum staking ecosystem. According to the report, the decline in Ethereum staking deposits can be attributed to two main factors. Why Is Ethereum Staking Deposit Declining? The on-chain analytics....
Over today’s trading session, Ethereum and the crypto market are showing strength and are trading in the green. The positive price action could be supported by the expectation around ETH’s upcoming major upgrade, “Shanghai.” Related Reading: Analyst That Predicted 2022 Crypto Bottom Says Ethereum Will Hit $10,000 Scheduled for April 12th, this upgrade will allow Ethereum 2.0 validators to un-staked their locked ETH. As a result, the cryptocurrency’s available supply is bound to increase, which could translate into negative price action. So far, the opposite is taking place as traders....
Staked ETH withdrawals and lower gas fees are among the developments expected with the upgrade. Staked ETH withdrawal and lower gas fees are some of the developments expected with the next critical improvements for the Ethereum network, the Shanghai upgrade. The testnet version, dubbed Shandong, is now live. Developers can now begin working on the implementations; a process expected to continue until September 2023. This is the first major update since Ethereum's consensus switched to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) in September after the Mainnet and Beacon Chains merged.Moreover, the coming upgrade....
The much-talked-about London upgrade has finally happened on the Ethereum network as ETH arguably moves closer to becoming a deflationary asset. The London hard fork arrived almost on schedule at 12:33 pm UTC on Thursday at block height 12,965,000, ushering in the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559.With the upgrade triggered, Ethereum will now undergo a significant overhaul of the network’s transaction fee market and other parameters such as gas refunds among others. Under EIP-1559, each transaction on Ethereum will involve burning the base fee, which automatically decreases the....
The successful Ethereum upgrade to proof-of-stake consensus is receiving more backlashes from the market. Therefore, the Ethereum upgrade should produce only positive feedback, but where there are merits, demerits must exist. One of the aftermath challenges the industry faced since the Ethereum upgrade was the drop in GPU prices. Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) in crypto mining increased over the years because they proved very efficient. Related Reading: TA: Ethereum Price Needs To Clear $1,400 For Hopes of a Fresh Rally GPU companies were earning huge profits due to the increased demand....