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The "Shanghai Upgrade" is the first significant upgrade after the merger of Ethereum, which means the opening of Ethereum's pledge and withdrawal function, and also means that Ethereum will ultimately cut off its connection with encrypted "mining".The "Shanghai upgrade" is of great significance for the future development of DeFi (decentralized finance): promoting the decentralization process of the Ethereum network will also help usher in the DeFi 3

Image source @ Visual ChinaAt 23:00 Beijing time on February 7th, the Ethereum Zhejiang testing network successfully activated the Shanghai upgrade on epoch1350, taking 13 minutes to complete, and successfully simulated the withdrawal of pledged ETH for the first time. (Note: The term 'Shapella' originates from Shanghai and Capella and represents improvements in two plans, which can simplify the process of simultaneously extracting rights pledge ETH at the execution layer and Beacon chain

The current price of ETH is $1867.62

Recently, the Ethereum market has performed outstandingly, with its price breaking its recent high on May 5th, reaching $1945.During the same period, although Bitcoin remained volatile at a high point, it did not break a new high and its rise was significantly weaker than Ethereum.As of April 10th, ETH/BTC has risen by about 6.92% so far this month, reaching a maximum of 0.0679BTC, rebounding nearly 8% since March 20th.As of writing, Bitcoin has fallen below $28000, with a price of $27883 and Ethereum at $1830.The main reason why Ethereum has shown a strong upward trend and outperformed Bitcoin is due to the upcoming Shanghai hard fork upgrade on April 12th!Many experts believe that in the long run, hard forking is beneficial for Ethereum. up to now,The Shanghai craze helped Ethereum outperform Bitcoin in AprilCurrently, the positive signals surrounding Ethereum are evident:According to Glassnode data, the total value of ETH2.0 deposit contracts has just reached a 10 month high of $31601215618.82.According to data from the official website mainnet.beconcha. in of Ethereum, the total number of Ethereum pledges has exceeded 18 million ETHs, with a total of 18044134 ETHs pledged. The total number of Ethereum beacon chain validators has exceeded 560000.In addition, the Ethereum Beacon Chain ETH pledge APR (annual return rate) is 4.65%.L2BEAT data shows that as of now, the total lockup volume on Ethereum Layer2 is $9.17 billion, up 0.23% in the past 7 days. Among them, the largest lock-in volume is the expansion plan, ArbitrumOne, which is approximately 6.002 billion US dollars, accounting for 65.88%. The second largest lock-in volume is Optimism, which is 1.954 billion US dollars, accounting for 21.45%.The Ethereum Exchange showed a net transfer out status within 24 hours, with a net transfer out amount of 7.1344 million US dollars; Bitcoin experienced a net transfer phenomenon, with a 24-hour net transfer of $10.1 million.In addition to the good performance of data on the chain, the application scenarios of Ethereum are also constantly expanding, bringing hope for further breakthroughs in the market.Headquartered in Zurich, SwitzerlandFinancial bank IncoreBank announced that it will provide customers with Ethereum pledge servicesThe bank stated that customers using its Ethereum pledge service must fully comply with the "Know Your Customer (KYC)" and anti money laundering (AML) compliance requirements.Mark Dambacher, CEO of IncoreBank, stated that the bank will provide customers with Ethereum pledge services through quarantine wallets and comply with regulatory and tax regulations.However, although the Ethereum market is dominated by bullish sentiment, from today's market trend, the downward correction performance is still very obvious:Ethereum's price dropped as low as $1822 today, a daily decrease of 1.61%, while Bitcoin's price dropped as low as $27790, a daily decrease of 0.46%.Greeks.live macro researcher Adam tweeted that despite the upcoming upgrade in Shanghai, the implied volatility IV of Ethereum options has actually experienced a significant decline, with a drop of up to 8% in the past two days.He believes that the main reason for the decline in IV is the decrease in market liquidity caused by the Easter holiday. However, at the current level of volatility, it is abnormal for monthly IV to fall to the same level as Bitcoin, and a large number of users are adding positions to short the future volatility level.

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Reported by Zhao Yi, Hu Jinhua, a reporter from China Times (www.chinatimes

Do you regret missing out on the LSD bull market before the Shanghai upgrade? Don't worry, the Cancun upgrade - an upgrade that directly benefits Layer2 (L2) tokens is coming soon.What benefits will the Cancun upgrade bring and how will it affect L2s?In short, the Cancun upgrade will increase the speed of L2 by 10-100 times and lower the cost

Disclaimer: This article aims to convey more market information and does not constitute any investment advice. The article only represents the author's viewpoint and does not represent the official stance of MarsBit.Editor: Remember to follow meSource: MarsBitIt has been a week since the end of Ethereum Shanghai upgrade.After this upgrade is completed, the pledgor can withdraw funds, including 32 ETHs pledged and accumulated rewards.In the months before the upgrade, ETH doomsayers depicted terrifying scenarios, predicting that months of full withdrawals and suppressed selling pressure would be released from the beacon chain.The reality is clearly more positive: the scale and composition of queue exits are still encouraging, the number of net validators is increasing, and the development trend of the liquid collateralized derivative (LSD) market is very strong.Exit queueAttempting to remove all 32 pledged ETH users from the beacon chain is called complete exit. Exit must first queue up.Unlike partial withdrawals of cumulative pledge rewards, this type of withdrawal is not automatic and the process is more time-consuming. Under the current network restrictions, queuing to exit can only process a maximum of 1800 full withdrawal requests per day.Exit queue25.2%Kraken(23%)CEXCoinbaseLSD18.3%

The Ethereum blockchain is about to receive an important update on April 12th, namely the Shanghai Upgrade. The main purpose of this upgrade is to enable the extraction of Ethereum (ETH) already pledged on the Beacon Chain. Currently, over 17 million Ethereum coins are locked on the Beacon Chain, accounting for over 15% of ETH's total supply.How will this upgrade affect the price and market of ETH? We believe that from multiple perspectives, the upgrade in Shanghai is beneficial for ETH, for the following reasons:Enhancing the attractiveness of beacon chains Beacon chain is a core component of Ethereum's Proof of Rights (PoS) consensus mechanism, which enables Ethereum networks to be more secure, efficient, and environmentally friendly. Currently, to become a verifier of the beacon chain, at least 32 ETHs need to be pledged and cannot be extracted. For some users, this may be a high threshold and risk. After the upgrade in Shanghai, pledgers can freely extract their ETH and rewards, which will reduce the cost and risk of pledging, attract more users to participate in pledging, and increase the security and decentralization of the Ethereum network.Reduce the cost of second tier solutions