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<ul><li>The much anticipated Ethereum Merge is upon us - on September 15 UTC, Ethereum mainnet will be merging with the proof-of-stake consensus layer, the Beacon Chain.</li><li>The Beacon Chain was created on December 1, 2020, and has since existed as a separate blockchain to Mainnet, running in parallel.</li><li>This will be one of the most significant upgrades in Ethereum’s history, and took years of research and development.</li></ul>

The much anticipated Ethereum Merge is upon us - on September 15 UTC, Ethereum mainnet will be merging with the proof-of-stake consensus layer, the Beacon Chain.The Beacon Chain was created on December 1, 2020, and has since existed as a separate blockchain to Mainnet, running in parallel.This will be one of the most significant upgrades in Ethereum’s history, and took years of research and development.

The Ethereum Merge: Past, Present and Future

Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets, Kaiko

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<ul><li>Price Movements: Markets experienced a strong rebound dominated by ETH, which closed the week up 12%. </li><li>Market Liquidity: USDC, TUSD, and USDP accounted for just 3% of total stablecoin volume on Binance before the exchange announced plans to de-list pairs and auto-convert deposits to BUSD.</li><li>Derivatives: Open interest for Ethereum Classic (ETC) recently hit all time highs as miners shift computational resources to the hard-forked PoW Ethereum chain.</li></ul>

Price Movements: Markets experienced a strong rebound dominated by ETH, which closed the week up 12%. Market Liquidity: USDC, TUSD, and USDP accounted for just 3% of total stablecoin volume on Binance before the exchange announced plans to de-list pairs and auto-convert deposits to BUSD.Derivatives: Open interest for Ethereum Classic (ETC) recently hit all time highs as miners shift computational resources to the hard-forked PoW Ethereum chain.

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<ul><li>The current context is messy. Prices of BTC and ETH slumped twice this year (following the Terra and the Celsius/3AC crises) and show no symptoms of long-lasting recovery (yet).</li><li>Trading volume on top NFT marketplace OpenSea down 99% in USD from May peak, and DeFi is going through an identity crisis after the Tornado Cash case (more on this later), the most notable example of the increasing regulatory pressure coming from a dozen angles.</li><li>And all of this within a backdrop of global financial crisis and stagnation. Suppose you’re not heavily invested in crypto, financially or intellectually.</li></ul>

The current context is messy. Prices of BTC and ETH slumped twice this year (following the Terra and the Celsius/3AC crises) and show no symptoms of long-lasting recovery (yet).Trading volume on top NFT marketplace OpenSea down 99% in USD from May peak, and DeFi is going through an identity crisis after the Tornado Cash case (more on this later), the most notable example of the increasing regulatory pressure coming from a dozen angles.And all of this within a backdrop of global financial crisis and stagnation. Suppose you’re not heavily invested in crypto, financially or intellectually.

<ul><li>Price Movements: Historically, crypto assets have performed worse than equities during the September market slump.</li><li>Market Liquidity: Market share of volume for Binance's BUSD stablecoin hit all time highs. </li><li>Derivatives: Ether options reveal investor apprehension ahead of the Merge but bullish sentiment prevails post-Merge.</li></ul>

Price Movements: Historically, crypto assets have performed worse than equities during the September market slump.Market Liquidity: Market share of volume for Binance's BUSD stablecoin hit all time highs. Derivatives: Ether options reveal investor apprehension ahead of the Merge but bullish sentiment prevails post-Merge.

ETH Open Interest Retraces From All Time Highs

<ul><li>The perpetual futures market serves as the battleground for institutions, risk-hedgers and speculators alike.</li><li>In the bull run of 2021, perpetual futures acted as one of the main catalysts for all time highs as new money piled into the market with excessive leverage.</li><li>Flash forward to September 2022 and we’re seeing this new money return to perpetual futures markets more ferociously than ever, specifically for ETH, with open interest recently breaking all time highs, ahead of one of the biggest idiosyncratic catalysts crypto has seen in some time, the Ethereum Merge. </li></ul>

The perpetual futures market serves as the battleground for institutions, risk-hedgers and speculators alike.In the bull run of 2021, perpetual futures acted as one of the main catalysts for all time highs as new money piled into the market with excessive leverage.Flash forward to September 2022 and we’re seeing this new money return to perpetual futures markets more ferociously than ever, specifically for ETH, with open interest recently breaking all time highs, ahead of one of the biggest idiosyncratic catalysts crypto has seen in some time, the Ethereum Merge. 

Derivatives Dominate ETH Markets Ahead of Merge

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Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes. Ethereum also provides a cryptocurrency token called "ether", which can be transferred between accounts and used to compensate participant nodes for computations performed. "Gas", an internal transaction pricing mechanism, is used to mitigate spam and allocate resources on the network.

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The Ethereum Merge: Past, Present and Future

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Derivatives Dominate ETH Markets Ahead of Merge

In the bull run of 2021, perpetual futures acted as one of the main catalysts for all time highs as new money piled into the market with excessive...

Kaiko

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