On June 30, Ethereum developers delayed the network’s difficulty bomb via the Gray Glacier update, which means The Merge won’t happen at least until September 2022. Meanwhile, there’s now more than 13 million ethereum locked into the Beacon Chain worth $15.8 billion using today’s prices.
More Than 13 Million Ether Worth $15.8 Billion Deposited Into the Ethereum 2.0 Contract
Šią savaitę ETH 2.0 contract has seen a total of more than 13 million ETH deposited and there are now 406,640 validators. In time, the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain is expected to transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) chain. Currently, the network has a hybrid system of both proof-of-work (PoW) for the main chain, and PoS for the Beacon chain. At the time of writing, the 13,012,469 ether locked into the ETH 2.0 contract is worth more than $15.8 billion using current ETH Valiutų kursai.
The 13 million in ETH stems from 76,506 depositor addresses and the aggregate represents 10.88% of the entire ETH supply today, according to Dune Analytics statistika. 31.73% of the share is staked via the liquid staking application Lido. Besides Lido, other large staking services include companies like Kraken, Staked.us, Stakefish, Bitcoin Suisse, and Figment. While many thought the PoS transition, otherwise known as The Merge, would possibly happen in rugpjūtis, the difficulty bomb update has pushed The Merge further away.
Ethereum Devs Aim to Avoid Network Degradation Due to a Premature Activation of the Difficulty Bomb
On June 30, the Ethereum network updated to Gray Glacier at bloko aukštis 15,050,000 XNUMX XNUMX which pushes the difficulty bomb back by 100 days. “The Gray Glacier network upgrade changes the parameters of the Ice Age/Difficulty Bomb, pushing it back by 700,000 blocks, or roughly 100 days,” Ethereum developer Tim Beiko atskleista on June 16, 2022. “With Ropsten now transitioned to proof-of-stake, the difficulty bomb only affects the Ethereum mainnet. This means Gray Glacier will not be deployed on any testnet,” he added.
Be to, delsimas, Ethereum network fees have liko žemas and at the time of writing, the average network fee yra 0.0018 ETH or $2.16 per transaction. Today, a median-sized Ethereum network fee is 0.00078 ETH or $0.955 per data transfer. Furthermore, since August 5, 2021, or since the implementation of EIP 1559, approximately 2,523,831 ETH worth $8.4 billion has been destroyed.
Iš esmės sunkumo bomba is a “Planned exponential increase in įrodymas apie darbą sunkumas setting designed to motivate the transition to akcijų paketo įrodymas, reducing the chances of a šakutė.” EIP 5133’s notes explain the motivation behind the delay is to “avoid network degradation due to a premature activation of the difficulty bomb.”
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