Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency, has completed a plan to drastically reduce its carbon emissions through a software upgrade known as “the merge”. Here we explain what has changed and what the implications might be.
Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency, will complete a plan to lower its carbon emissions by more than 99% in the next month, the foundation that controls the platform has confirmed.
Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency after bitcoin, is just "months" away from shifting its underlying infrastructure to a new model that would slash its carbon emissions a hundredfold, the project has announced.