There are rumors circulating around the web, that the ETH 2.0 upgrade will finalize this year. It would be a major upgrade on the ETH blockchain, after a long period of delays. The competition became much more intense ever since gas fees increased on the ETH blockchain. If the ETH 2.0 upgrade comes into fruition, then ETH's position on the market will solidify like never before. Depending on the impact, competing chains will experience less demand on the market.
Still, I'm having my doubts if ETH will upgrade to PoS this year due to the delay in ETH's difficulty bomb. How long will it take for mining on the ETH blockchain to come to an end is beyond me.
Do you think 2022 will be the year of ETH 2.0? If not, why? What will happen with ETH after the upgrade is successfully implemented? Will it mark the end of alternative smart contract platforms for good? Will ETH gas fees decline massively after the upgrade? Or will everything else remain the same? Your input will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
The next two stages of the Ether update (the merge and shard chains) will be completed in 2022 and 2023 respectively. After these two upgrades, the ether network will be able to transact at 100,000 per second, and it is hoped that this will solve the traffic problem on the Ether network, resulting in a much lower gas fee for the transaction. Many say the upgrade will bring the Ethereum network's gas charges to zero. As a result, the value of other projects of smart contracts such as ada, bsc, sol, matic, avax will be greatly reduced. Defi platforms basically use the Ethereum network as the primary base. So I think Defi users will be more inclined to use the Ethereum network, which will reduce the competition between Ethereum and other networks.
There is no way we can be so sure this will happen but if everything goes according to plan we can see a similar scenario.