How to Benefit from Ethereums Merge: CoinGeckos Co-Founder Hints
With the much-anticipated Ethereum Merge only days away, Bobby Ong, co-founder and COO of major cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko, has shared some ways on how ETH holders can best take advantage of the upcoming event. Sa isang tweet na thread on Monday (September 5, 2022), Bobby Ong said that one of the best ways for existing ETH holders to get ETH proof-of-work (POW) airdrops will be to have their tokens in a hardware wallet. Meanwhile, Ong noted that it would be easier for the investor if their ETH coins were held on exchanges that support the impending fork. Other ways to ensure receipt of ETH POW tokens is to withdraw liquidity from decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, while also advising traders to borrow ether from Aave and Compound. The CoinGecko executive also said it was important for holders to unwrap wrapped ether (WETH) before the Merge occurs, and also bridge all their ETH tokens back to the mainet rather than holding them on layer 2 scaling solutions like Optimism, Avalanche, Polygon, or Arbitrum. While Ong believes he could be eligible for the forked tokens if his ETH is held on non-custodial wallets, the CoinGecko co-founder noted that claiming them all may not be wise as some