Alistair Milne, a major crypto influencer and CIO of Altana Digital Currency Fund, has predicted that Ethereum will have two chains after the Ethereum Merge. Milne is one of the few experts predicting a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain after the merge.
Milne also believes that the new hard-forked ETHw token will be worth 9% of the Proof-of-Stake layer. That is equivalent to the same market cap as that of Ripple’s XRP.
The Different Scenarios After Ethereum Merge
There is intense speculation regarding the post-merge future of Ethereum. The Ethereum Merge replaces an energy-intensive Proof-of-Work with a more efficient Proof-of-stake. However, the move replaces the miners, currently running the Ethereum.
Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, believes that Proof-of-Work supporters should support Ethereum Classic. However, Justin Sun, the founder of Tron and Poloniex Exchange, has stated that PoW should exist after the merge. His exchange, Poloniex, has listed both ETHw and ETHs tokens.
Buterin and Sun engaged in a war of words over the future of Ethereum. Kevin Zhou of Galois Capital has revealed that he can envision as many as three separate chains after the merge.
