Mercado Bitcoin's Rony Szuster on the Ethereum Shapella upgrades

Rony Szuster covers Ethereum and smart contract platforms for Mercado Bitcoin’s research team. He was kind enough to join the podcast to help us understand these critical updates, the impacts they may have on the market and how they fit into the broader Ethereum roadmap.

In this episode we cover:

• the difference between Ethereum’s Consensus Layer and Execution Layer, and how the two chains communicate with one another

• potential impacts to the market and network security should a large amount of staked ETH be withdrawn and sold

• the role of liquid staking platforms like Lido and Rocketpool once withdrawals have been enabled

• the viability of ETH staking as an investment opportunity in the Brazilian investment climate

You can find Rony’s latest report on the Shapella fork here. You can connect with him and the rest of the MB research team in the Mercado Bitcoin Discord server.

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