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Ethereum’s upcoming ‘Merge’ a milestone but ‘forks’ abound, says crypto community

Chloe Lim
Chloe Lim • 9 min read
Ethereum’s upcoming ‘Merge’ a milestone but ‘forks’ abound, says crypto community
While both the PoS and PoW systems help users perform secure transactions by making it difficult to commit fraud, the Ethereum community believes the move into the PoS system will bring about several benefits. Photo: Unsplash
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The global community of cryptocurrency holders and investors will have their eyes on Ethereum for the next few weeks as this high-profile cryptocurrency is poised for a significant structural upgrade on Sept 19 that promises to be more sustainable, accessible, yet, secure.

This so-called “Merge” event will see the Ethereum platform merge its existing execution layer with its coordination mechanism, Beacon Chain, which is now running in parallel.

The Beacon Chain coordinates the network of “stakers” and following Merge, will see Ethereum moving into a new proof-of-stake (PoS) system from the previous proof-of-work (PoW) system.

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