A week ago, Ethereum tweeted some news on the Serenity Protocol update, which is about to become the most efficient opportunity to run a staking node on their platform. It was considered as a step in the transition from the PoW to a PoS consensus change since it causes a high expectancy among the Ether users.
Essentials of Serenity
You have probably heard that Serenity is the long-waited protocol, which is part of the PoS planned upgrade of the Ethereum ecosystem. It is going to use a consensus algorithm, called Casper and it’s expected to solve the scalability problem, caused by the increasing adoption of crypto word-wide. The Serenity is actually going to improve the Ethereum’s current condition by allowing it to resist to way much more transactions. Serenity takes all the improvement ideas of Vitalik Buterin’s team and put it all together in a basically new blockchain – the Ethereum 2.0.
Serenity Protocol Upgrade
As we’re all expecting the upgrade of the Ethereum 2.0 and the mechanism of its functioning, finally the co-founder of Ethereum give us something to speak for. During the Prague conference, he gave a few hints on what to expect from it but anyway nothing specifically to get an overview of the protocol itself. After the above-mentioned tweet, Ethereum users started discussion comparing the new implementation with the PoW mechanism, which made them basically blind to see the biggest advantage they might expect – the reduced cost to run a node.
If we accept that Ethereum finally switch to the PoS working mode, there will be more than 30 tokens ready to go on the staking field. By replacing the mining process with staking, users will have the ability to continue receiving block rewards and meanwhile profit reduced fees for their transactions, in a word it’s the so-called passive income.
Ethereum’s Price Fluctuations
I consider that the November price decrease might have finally a positive impact on the Serenity protocol, because this way the tokens with lose their value, so more stakers would be able to join the network and stake them.
Even after the few issues that developers experienced by working on the Serenity Protocol, Buterin thinks that the upgrade will get expanded faster than the PoW concept.
In breve, I can conclude that token will cost less than $5000, which will for sure attract many stakers to join the Ethereum 2.0 network.
Conclusion
Becoming more cost-efficient would mean to also be more or less economically and environmentally friendly, which is what’s going to send Ethereum back to the altcoin’s top. The construction of the new blockchain is supposed to start in March next year by putting together all the separate improvements, planned to implement in a completely new blockchain.