I write and talk about The Merge a lot - and for good reason - it’s the largest upgrade to the Ethereum network in its entire history pulling together 100’s of researchers & developers as well as many years of hard work. And while The Merge itself is a grand technical achievement, there’s a large economic part that plays a role in it too - and in today’s piece I want to go over some of the major economic merge-related themes.

A little over a year ago I started The Daily Gwei YouTube channel after having a few months worth of success writing my daily newsletter of the same name. Since then, the channel has grown to over 14,000 subscribers and has thousands of daily watchers/listeners across both the videos and the podcast. I am honestly so humbled by the support I’ve gotten - I never thought this many people would enjoy listening to me go on about Ethereum for 30 minutes every week day - but here we are!