Ethereum - KaveriBridge/crypto GitHub Wiki

About

• An open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system
• Features smart contract functionality.

Eth 2.0 changes

• Validation: From proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS)
• Backward compatiblity: Fully compatible with Eth 1.0
• Transactions: Upto 100K transactions per second (TPS) as compared to 4.7 TPS (Bitcoin) and 15 TPS (Ethereum 1.0).

Key people

• Vitalik Buterin

Hard forks

Fork	Date	Details
Berlin Hard Fork	Apr 21
London Hard Fork	Jul 21?
Shanghai Hard Fork	Oct 21?

See also

• Ether
• Bitcoin