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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

Zhitong Financial APP learned that the Ethereum network will undergo technical transformation on April 12, allowing users to withdraw tens of billions of dollars of native token Ethereum. This is called "Shanghai" upgrade, and it is a necessary step for the consensus mechanism of Ethereum, the world's most commercially important cryptocurrency platform, to change from proof-of-work to PoS

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 Mars Finance

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

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Reporter | Si LinweiAfter the successful upgrade of "Merge", which is closely watched by the entire network, the cryptocurrency market, including Ethereum, has not been able to break out of its independent market.On September 20th, the latest market data showed that Ethereum's current quotation reached $1360, a weekly drop of 20%; Bitcoin also fell to the critical $20000 level, quoting $19312, a weekly decline of 13

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.

Ethereum prices have been in the range of $1800 to $1900 over the past week.The decrease in whale activity and the flat foreign exchange balance indicate a contemplative mood among ETH traders