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A Financial Advisor’s View of The Merge | August 24th Newsletter
A Financial Advisor’s View of The Merge | August 24th Newsletter
This week, we debut our Metric of the Week and go in-depth about how The Merge will reduce energy consumption and benefit the environment.
8/24/2022
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👨🏼💼 A Financial Advisor’s View of The Merge
August 24th Newsletter
Hi, there! This week, we debut our Metric of the Week and go in-depth about how The Merge will reduce energy consumption and benefit the environment.
Next, Adam Blumberg from PlannerDAO gives a financial professional’s perspective as we approach the Ethereum Merge.
Lastly, Index Coop’s csquared_eth chats in Twitter Spaces with the team over at Reimagined Finance about DeFI product innovation.
-@thekindeagle and the Index Coop team
METRIC OF THE WEEK
📈 TVL (Total Value Locked) Per Holder 📉
🥇 $icETH: $17,658 per holder 🥈$ETH2x-FLI: $4,802 per holder ⬇️ $MVI: $576 per holder Check more metrics for Index Coop on Dune Analytics
PRODUCT NEWS
🌳 ETH Gets Greener With The Merge 🌳
One of the biggest arguments against Ethereum and your collection of NFTs is going away next month. The Merge, the Ethereum network’s transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism from a proof-of-work (PoW) model, is set to have major implications on ESG. ESG—Environmental, Social, and Governance—is a set of standards measuring a business’s impact on society and the environment and how transparently it carries out operations. Specifically, The Merge will reduce the energy consumption of the Ethereum network by 99.95%.
INDEX EDUCATION
👨🏼💼 A Financial Advisor’s View of The Merge 👨🏼💼
The Merge is an exciting time for token holders, DeFi builders, and financial professionals that are immersed in the world of decentralized finance. We invited Adam Blumberg from PlannerDAO to provide his perspective. As a Certified Financial Planner, Adam shares his thoughts about Ethereum’s switch to proof-of-stake and the potential improvements in scalability and security that may be developed as a result. Along with benefits, he also lays out potential risks related to the implementation of The Merge.
INDEX IN THE NEWS
🔴 Talkin’ DeFi with Reimagined Finance 🔴
What are the latest product innovations and developments in DeFi? And how can people set themselves up for success with the approaching Merge?
Index Coop’s @csquared_eth joined the team at Reimagined Finance to discuss crypto-structured products on Twitter Spaces. The conversation spans the topics of abstracting away the complex trading strategies in an ERC-20 token to Index’s range of ETH yield products, it’s definitely worth a listen.
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