# Chain Insights — Analyzing Ethereum One Year Post-Merge 

Source: https://medium.com/@chaincom/chain-insights-analyzing-ethereum-one-year-post-merge-35d41cfb1fb6
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Chain-Insights-Analyzing-Ethereum-One-Year-Post-Merge?index=0x67a4f4654d48d97b5903193e463081ea698da91e5c16c28b58b5e40436bd1d724519f31d
Submitted by pfedprog.eth on 2025-02-06 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

Chain's one-year review of Ethereum after the Merge, its move from proof of work to proof of stake, says the change was a major milestone, while raising concerns about staking centralization, scalability and regulation. The article states that Ethereum's energy consumption fell by 99.99% according to the Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute, and that the amount of ether staked nearly doubled after the Merge. It says Lido accounts for 32% of all staked Ethereum, and that average transactions per second stayed in the teens. It also says the upcoming Dencun upgrade with proto-danksharding promises to scale Ethereum to over 100,000 TPS.