ConsenSys' Ben Edgington On The Future Of Ethereum After The Merge
The Defiant23 Syys 2022

ConsenSys' Ben Edgington On The Future Of Ethereum After The Merge

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Ben Edgington, the product owner of Teku, an Ethereum 2.0 client being developed at Consensys.

It’s been a week since Ethereum switched from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and Ben has been heavily involved in the process. We start our conversation by taking a look at the aftermath of the Merge.

One of the biggest criticisms of The Merge was that Ethereum under PoS would become centralized. Proof-of-stake enables individuals to delegate their ETH to entities that stake on their behalf, as running a node might be inconvenient or infeasible. We discuss how roughly half of the staked Ether is held by a handful of validators and what Ben thinks about this.

Finally, Ben shares his thoughts on the future of Ethereum and what comes next, now that the Merge is complete.

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