Examining Coin Metrics’ New Staking Metrics
Walking through Coin Metrics’ new staking-related Ethereum metrics released alongside The Merge.
Ethereum’s Successful Entry into the post-Merge Era
At 2:43 AM Eastern Time at block 15537393, Ethereum’s Proof-of-Work era came to an end, ushering in a new age of Proof-of-Stake Ethereum. In this special update, we share what we saw on the ground at the time of The [...]
SOTM September 8-14, 2022
If you're reading this, Ethereum is proof-of-stake. After reaching the Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) of 58,750,000,000T early Thursday morning, the ecosystem's 2nd largest cryptoasset successfully executed "the Merge," fusing the existing smart contract layer with the consensus layer. The transition [...]
The Final(ity) Countdown
Coin Metrics is excited to continue providing data-driven coverage of The Merge, Ethereum’s imminent protocol upgrade. In this piece, we explain the differences between slashing and penalties, and how transaction finality assumptions change post-Merge.
Ethereum’s Bellatrix Upgrade Goes Live in Final Preparation for The Merge
Ethereum moved one step closer to The Merge Tuesday with the activation of Bellatrix, a network upgrade to Ethereum’s Consensus Layer (CL), also known as the Beacon Chain. This upgrade prepares the CL to include Ethereum users’ transactions from the Execution [...]
SOTM September 1-7, 2022
Stablecoins are back in the spotlight as regulators, issuers, and exchanges spar at the intersection of fiat and crypto. Russia stepped into the ring on Tuesday, with deputy finance minister Aleksey Moiseyev reportedly planning to "work with friendly countries"to create [...]
SOTM August 25-31, 2022
Market sentiment has gone for a dip in the wake of Jay Powell's salient symposium at Jackson Hole. Though many pundits predicted the Fed chairman would pivot away from his campaign to escalate rates, Powell once again reaffirmed the central [...]
Mapping Out The Merge
As part of Coin Metrics' support for Ethereum’s major network upgrade, we are excited to be releasing a new data-driven research report explaining the essential features of The Merge and its implications for the future of Ethereum’s security, economics, and [...]
Mapping out The Merge
After years of research and development, The Merge will transition Ethereum to Proof of Stake fundamentally changing the network’s security and economics, and realizing the most significant upgrade since its 2015 launch.