First Mover Asia: DeFi Builders Speak Out. What the Crowd Is Getting Wrong About the Ethereum Merge
The Merge will lead to the reduction of the Ethereum blockchain’s carbon footprint, but it will not lower gas fees or improve Ethereum’s scalability, coders behind popular, Ethereum-based projects said; Bitcoin trades sideways.
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### Response: The Merge will lead to the reduction of the Ethereum blockchain’s carbon footprint, but it will not lower gas fees or improve Ethereum’s scalability, coders behind popular, Ethereum-based projects said; Bitcoin trades sideways.