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The Protocol: Ethereum Struggles With Sprawl as Optimism Airdrops $27M

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The Protocol: Ethereum Struggles With Sprawl as Optimism Airdrops $27M Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Ethereum’s historic “Merge” – the shift to a more energy-efficient proof-of-stake network. But in some ways the largest smart-contract blockchain has become a victim of its own success: Staking is so popular that the number of network validators is mushrooming toward 1 million, introducing new concern…

Coindesk 1.0k 2023-10-22