The Ethereum Merge to proof-of-stake is complete — What’s next?

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On this week’s episode of Market Talks, we welcome Julian Hosp, CEO and co-founder of Cake DeFi.

Julian Hosp is the CEO and co-founder of Cake DeFi, a extremely intuitive on-line platform devoted to offering entry to decentralized monetary companies. He’s broadly thought to be a number one influencer within the crypto and blockchain area with over a million followers throughout all of his channels globally. He’s additionally a best-selling writer and his imaginative and prescient is to convey blockchain consciousness and understanding to a billion extra folks by 2025.

The Merge has been everywhere just lately, with totally different information retailers, influencers and YouTube channels masking the occasion as a lot as potential, however why does the Ethereum Merge really matter, and why is it such a major occasion in crypto? We ask Julian to interrupt it down for us.

Now that the Merge is lastly full and Ethereum has efficiently moved from proof-of-work to proof-of-stack, what has really modified? Will the community be any totally different for customers or will it behave in a different way for day-to-day transactions? Additionally, what’s subsequent for Ethereum? Are there extra upgrades or modifications deliberate for the longer term? Will the Merge convey extra institutional adoption now that the community is extra environmentally pleasant? 

After all of the information and a spotlight the Merge acquired, lots of people have been anticipating there to be an enormous pump or dump within the worth of Ether (ETH) and different cryptocurrencies. However the markets have been largely unaffected by the occasion. This begs the query, was all of it simply hype? We get Julian’s tackle the matter.

Shifting on from Ethereum to the brand new Client Value Index (CPI) knowledge, we get Julian’s tackle what the info means and why it brought about Bitcoin (BTC) and different cryptocurrencies to dump as quickly because it was launched. Bitcoin has been hovering near the $20K stage, we ask Julian if he thinks it could go under once more and the way low can it go this time contemplating all of the macroeconomic elements world wide. We additionally talk about what essential worth ranges he’s maintaining a tally of for Bitcoin and why they matter.

Tune in to have your voice heard. We’ll be taking your questions and feedback all through the present, so you’ll want to have them able to go.

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