The "merge" will be one of the most significant shifts in crypto’s history, and could have a slew of far-reaching effects.

Ethereum's so-called merge is set for sometime around Thursday, according to the Ethereum Foundation. The switch from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake blockchain is meant to resolve high traffic ...

What is the Ethereum Merge? The Merge integrated Ethereum’s original execution layer with its new proof-of-stake consensus layer, officially transitioning the network’s consensus mechanism to proof-of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Charlyn Ho is CEO of Rikka, focusing on technology and privacy issues. Ethereum’s shift from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in ...

What does the Ethereum Merge mean for Ethereum mining and GPU miners? Ethereum upgraded from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, meaning miners will be out of work, and their equipment will be useless.

Late in the day on September 14 and into the early hours of the following morning, Vitalik Buterin and a few dozen crypto developers crowded into an office space in Berlin to flip the switch on the ...

Ethereum has shown worrying signs of centralization and censorship since its merge last month. Correspondent Last month, the blockchain Ethereum celebrated the successful completion of the merge, a ...

In the run-up to The Merge, some investors focused on Polygon (CRYPTO: MATIC) as a potential beneficiary of the major technological upgrade Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) was about to undergo. After all, ...

But what is the Ethereum Merge and why is it so important not just to crypto investors but to the environment? In short, the Merge is the second step in upgrading the Ethereum blockchain — it ...