OpenSea Will Not Assist NFTs on ETHPoW Fork

The world-leading NFT market OpenSea has publicly declared its assist for the Ethereum Merge later this month. 

As such, it won’t assist any speculative Ethereum forks that observe its activation – reminiscent of a possible ETHPoW fork. 

• {The marketplace} confirmed its assist for the Merge in a tweet on Wednesday. “We’re dedicated to solely supporting NFTs on the upgraded Ethereum PoS chain,” it learn.
• It additionally famous that any NFTs circulating on a potential ETHPoW fork, after the merge, won’t be mirrored on or supported by OpenSea.
• Apart from that, the corporate expects a easy transition to proof of stake (POS) Ethereum. “We’re dedicated to monitoring, managing, and speaking all through,” it mentioned. 
• The merge will cut back Ethereum’s power consumption by over 99% whereas making ready it for sharding – a scaling answer additional down the protocol’s roadmap. It’ll additionally enable ETH holders to stake their cash and safe the community for revenue. 
• Nevertheless, a group of Chinese language Ethereum miners have been orchestrating an Ethereum fork that may retain proof of labor previous September. Although not but confirmed, BitMEX has already begun providing leverage buying and selling for the non-existent chain. 
• Organizations like OpenSea can solely assist belongings circulating on one of many chains to stay purposeful. Thus far, most main firms are planning to deal with the POS Ethereum chain as canonical.
• For instance, the 2 largest stablecoin issuers – Circle, and Tether – have already agreed to solely assist the merge. Which means that USDC and USDT circulating on different forks will lose their peg to the greenback.