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Ether May ‘Inevitably’ Turn Into a Store of Value After Ethereum’s Merge, ConsenSys Economist Says
Lex Sokolin, head economist of decentralized protocols at ConsenSys, joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” to discuss why ether could be seen as a store of value as regular and institutional users stake their tokens on the network.
Updated Apr 9, 2024, 11:36 p.m. Published Sep 12, 2022, 10:40 p.m.
Ethereum’s historic Merge may change the way its native token, ether , is used, according to Lex Sokolin, head economist of decentralized protocols at software company ConsenSys.
“A fairly large portion of people are going to be staking their ETH in the protocol to secure the protocol,” Sokolin told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” on Monday, “which in a sense is going to inevitably turn at least some ETH into a store of value inside of the network.”
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Ethereum is expected to transition from a proof-of-work (PoW) to a quicker and less energy-consuming protocol known as proof-of-stake (PoS) in a matter of days.
Read more: How Does Ethereum Staking Work?
Sokolin, who focuses on areas of decentralized finance and autonomous organizations (DAO), said Ethereum’s use as collateral in DeFi suggests there are those who are “certainly supportive of ETH as a store of value, ultra sound money type asset.”
Sokolin added that ETH is not only “being used to power the protocol” but it is also oftentimes being used as “a unit of account for all sorts of goods and NFTs inside of Web 3.” NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, give collectors ownership of the digital items they’ve bought.
Read more: Ethereum Blockchain’s Upgrade May Lead to Greater Institutional Adoption of Ether: Bank of America
“It has both of those functions,” Sokolin said. “The sound money function as well as the store of value function.”
In the short term, Sokolin predicts the growth rate of ETH will be higher than bitcoin.
“The thing I would be excited about in regards to Bitcoin would be to see more Bitcoin incorporated into Web 3, likely through bridging or rapping,” Sokolin said. “And if it could be used as collateral inside of Web 3, that would be even more powerful.”
Read more: Ethereum Merge May Not Be Immediately Deflationary, Crypto Trading Firm QCP Says
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