A recent Binance report details the status of Ether staking and explores why the Shanghai upgrade may not result in the ETH sell pressure some traders have predicted. The upcoming Ethereum Shanghai hard fork is slated to occur in March 2023, and the upgrade will cap off the network’s move to proof-of-stake (PoS), which started during…
Read more
The milestone is another step on the road to the Shanghai upgrade, which remains scheduled for March. The Ethereum Foundation team announced another milestone on the road to the Shanghai upgrade, with the Shapella fork on the Zhejiang testnet moving into the final pre-launch sequence, according to a blog post on Feb 10. The Shapella…
Read more
Ethereum core developers plan to activate the “Shapella” transition through the Zhejiang public testnet on Feb. 7, 2023, according to Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation. If successful, Beiko said the Sepolia testnet could follow two days later, followed by the Goerli testnet. He noted that the testnet has a faucet, block explorer, and staking…
Read more
Ethereum developers are getting ready to launch a new test environment that allows testing of highly anticipated withdrawals of staked ETH tokens. The new testnet, which has been dubbed “Zhejiang,” is a necessary step in order for developers and regular users to test how the network handles withdrawals of staked ETH. The new feature is…
Read more
The city of Shanghai is bringing metaverse activities to 20 urban locations, that will allow citizens to use digital tools in different ways according to the area. The initiative is part of a pilot program of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization to push more metaverse applications to the population. Shanghai Takes the…
Read more
With the “Merge”, the Ethereum blockchain successfully mastered the biggest upgrade in its history on September 15 last year. Even before the switch to Proof of Stake (PoS), investors were able to stake ETH to receive rewards. However, the prerequisite was that a minimum of 32 ETH had to be staked and could not be…
Read more
Ethereum developers plan to release a public test network for the Shanghai upgrade, which will include code allowing withdrawals of ether staked in the Beacon Chain since December 2020, by the end of February. In a call on January 5, Ethereum developers chose March 2023 as the tentative target for the Shanghai hard fork. And in a…
Read more
Traders are contemplating what will happen to ETH price and staked Ether derivatives after the next network upgrade opens withdrawals for stakers. The crypto market witnessed the DeFi summer of 2020, where decentralized finance applications like Compound and Uniswap turned Ether (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) into yield-bearing assets via yield farming and liquidity mining rewards.…
Read more
Traders using builders to execute their complex trades could save a significant chunk of their gas fees as they no longer have to pay for failed transactions. Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade, the next major upgrade post Merge, is slated for the second half of 2023. The upgrade would be a key milestone as it would allow…
Read more
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…
Read more
