The recent merge on the first mainnet shadow fork also exposed multiple issues that the prior testnets didn't catch. A successful merge will be good for Ethereum long-term, but until it's complete ...

On its face, the Merge appears to be “soft fork” that may not give rise to a taxable event for owners of ETH (producing either deemed gain or deemed loss).

Ethereum’s ninth shadow fork went live as the network continues to test its imminent transition from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake consensus model. In preparation for Ethereum’s merge ...

Today alone — the fork was yesterday — ETHPoW is already down by a staggering 55 percent. Going Down Ether is down too, but only by around five percent over the same period.

At 2:43am EST on September 15, 2022, the first Ethereum block was validated using Proof of Stake, signaling the success of the Ethereum Merge, one of ...

On the first day after the Merge, the decentralized finance (DeFi) community is settling into the seemingly uneventful transition of the Ethereum network from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake ...

The shadow fork brings the project one step closer to Ethereum's mainnet upgrade in September. The third and final testnet merge, Goerli, is expected to happen Aug. 10.

Ethereum miner Chandler Guo is reiterating his push for Ethereum to undergo a "hard fork" once it become a proof-of-stake blockchain next month in a software update known as the Merge.Guo told ...

The hard fork will now delay the difficulty bomb by roughly 700,000 blocks or 100 days, giving devs until mid-October to complete the long-awaited Merge.