EthereumPoW team plans to freeze selected contracts, community pushes back
Ethereum (ETH) is all set to transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) network by Sept. 15-16 that would see an end to its current proof-of-work (PoW) chain. This event would eliminate PoW mining from the Ethereum ecosystem.
The terminal total difficulty has been set to 58750000000000000000000.This means the ethereum PoW network now has a (roughly) fixed number of hashes left to mine.https://t.co/3um744WkxZ predicts the merge will happen around Sep 15, though the exact date depends on hashrate. pic.twitter.com/9YnloTWSi1
In light of such a major upgrade, the PoW proponents, especially miners, have decided to keep the PoW chain alive. EthereumPoW (ETHW), the core PoW team on Tuesday recommended ETH holders withdraw their assets from liquidity providers (LPs) such as Uniswap Sushiswap, Aave, Compound, and other decentralized exchanges (DEX).
The core team said they would temporarily freeze ETHW tokens in certain LPs of DEX and lending protocols after the hardfork to protect user assets.
The core team believes right after the Ethereum PoW hard fork, especially for the initial several blocks, users’ ETHW tokens deposited in the LPs will be swapped or lent out by hackers and scientists using deprecated and valueless USDT, USDC, and WBTC, which would create a “huge mess for the community.”
The core team said:
The team also said freezing will not be applied to the staking contracts that only involve a single asset such as ETH2.0 deposit contract and Wrapped Ether.
The idea of freezing users’ assets without their consent didn’t go well with many in the community. Users reminded the core team that freezing hardcoded LP smart contracts into the ETH clients is definitively not decentralized.
Converting ETHW into a slow, centralized chain,
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