Today's Topic - One of the four Layer2 will issue tokens next month
Jack Niewold, the founder of Crypto Pragmatist, revealed on his social networking site that one of Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync and Starknet will release tokens next month.
Jack said, "Arbitrum has always been the top in the Rollup field, so Arbitrum is the one most likely to launch tokens."
Do you think Arbitrum will be the trump card?
Today's Chart - The number of addresses holding SHIB for one year surged by 1900%
According to the data tracked by IntoTheBlock, a blockchain analysis company, the number of "holders" or addresses holding SHIB for more than one year has surged by 1900% to 3750 since late January. The number of "traders" holding less than a month fell by 38% to 49790.
Over the same period, the balance held by long-term investors increased by 127% to 27.93 trillion SHIBs. In the past 30 days alone, this figure has increased by 57%. Since January this year, the number of addresses with a holding period of 1 to 12 months has decreased by 2%, while the number of SHIBs held by traders has increased by 40% to 32 trillion.
Today's Influencer - Tim Beiko, Ethereum merger leader: Ethereum merger is expected to be completed within this year
On April 13, Tim Beiko, Ethereum merger leader, responded on social media that: (Ethereum merger) will not be completed in June, but may be in the next few months. There is no definite date at present, but we are definitely in the final stage of Ethereum PoW. He then added that the Ethereum merger would be completed within 2022.
In fact, as early as 2018, it has been reported that Ethereum will switch to PoS in 2018. However, the author believes that this is an extremely optimistic attitude, which not only underestimates the complexity of PoS security design, but also underestimates the complexity of the transition from PoW to PoS security. Now, Tim Beiko, the leader of Ethereum merger, replied that it will be completed within 2022. We can keep an eye on specific progress. Let's wait and see the smooth transition of Ethereum’s PoS.
Author: Gate.io Observer Byron B.,Translator: Joy Z.
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