Ryan Watkins and Wilson Withiam, senior research analysts at Messari, explain the nuts and bolts of Ethereum 2.0, including how it will transform ETH as an asset and why they believe it will be Ethereum’s most ambitious upgrade yet. Topics include:the different phases of Ethereum 2.0 and the functions they servethe problems Ethereum hopes to solve with this upgradethe technical requirements needed to ensure the launch can happenthe new proof of stake consensus and why Ethereum is leaving proof of work behindthe requirements necessary to maintain a validator node on the Ethereum 2.0 networkwhy users won’t be able to use their ETH once it is staked on Ethereum 2.0the incentives and services that will allow users staking on Ethereum 2.0 to continue using their ETH on Ethereum 1.0whether the appeal of DeFi is a threat to Ethereum 2.0 stakinghow Ethereum 2.0 incentivizes client diversitythe monetary policy of “minimum necessary issuance” that supports Ethereum 2.0how Ethereum 2.0 will allow ETH to achieve the unprecedented combination of a store of value, a capital asset, and a commoditywhat will be done in the short term to help ease the scaling problem while ETH 2.0 is being builtwhether scalability can be efficiently addressed in time to prevent migrations to other blockchainsand the most significant risks Ethereum 2.0 is facingThank you to our sponsor!Crypto.com: https://www.crypto.comEpisode links:Ryan Watkins: https://twitter.com/RyanWatkins_Wilson Withiam: https://twitter.com/wilsonwithiamMessari Crypto: https://messari.io/Messari report on Ethereum 2:0: https://messari.io/road-to-eth2  Amount of ETH in the Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa#analyticshttps://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/ethereum-2-0ETH issuance based on amount staked: https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-basics/monetary-policy/#proof-of-stake-impactDan Elitzer article on DETH: https://medium.com/ideo-colab/the-deth-of-ethereum-98553866e81bLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices