All You Need to Know
Second only to $547.44B Bitcoin market cap, Ethereum network
market cap stands at $226.23B, and live trading price $1,889.13
with more than 50% gains year-to-date (at the time of this
writing). Ethereum is a strategic, high-value, Turing-complete
smart contract application implementation network with 36% decentralised application (d'app)
largest market share. Therefore, its Shapella Upgrade completion
event is certifiably primed for huge impact across crypto-asset
market length, breadth and width April, and beyond.
Shapella Upgrade
The Ethereum mainnet hard fork event happens 22:27:35 UTC, April, 12, 2023. This biggest
crypto-asset market April event completes Ethereum Proof of Stake
(PoS) transition from Proof of Work (PoW). "Shapella" is
a portmanteau from combining Shanghai—Devcon 2 event China
city name, and Capella—Auriga northern constellation
brightest star name first and last two syllables respectively.
Ethereum consensus layer