Browse Ethereum Merge news and analysis, including staking, validator economics, energy use, and long-term network impact.
DeFi analyst Dynamo DeFi presented the case for The Layer-2 Wars following last week's surge in L2 crypto prices
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 2 min read 
The United States operates 47% of Ethereum nodes, with around 33% going through Amazon AWS. While the consensus layer may become more decentralized, the infrastructure still relies on a few large US companies.
Observers expect the Merge to happen in September, while skeptics believe that the upgrade could still be met with more delays.
Ethereum’s high gas fees have pushed many users to rival L1 blockchains like Solana, Cardano etc.
Ethereum validators in profit are those who made their deposits when the digital asset was trading under $1000.
A new report by Nansen walks through the events that led to 3AC and Celsius exiting their stETH positions amid the collapse of Terra and the unwrapping of 600K bETH.
The Gray Glacier upgrade will delay the Difficulty Bomb, meaning devs expect the Merge to take place later than planned.
The Ethereum community has raised fears of lido staking dominance leading to centralization. What does that mean for ETH 2.0?
dYdX is moving to a native chain on the Cosmos ecosystem. But why is the DEX ditching Ethereum, the world's most popular Turing complete blockchain?
