Ethereum official website: The merger will not reduce the gas fee, and the pledged withdrawal will be enabled after the upgrade in Shanghai.

[Ethereum official website: The merger will not reduce gas fees, pledged withdrawals will be enabled after the upgrade in Shanghai] On August 17th, the Ethereum official website ethereum.org launched by the Ethereum Foundation clarified the merger guidelines in the Ethereum upgrade guide. Misunderstandings, including: 1. The statement "32 ETH is required to run a node" is wrong, anyone can freely synchronize their own self-verifying copy of Ethereum (that is, run a node), without using ETH, no matter before and after the merger. 2. The merger is a change in the consensus mechanism, not an expansion of network capacity, nor will it reduce gas costs. 3. The statement that "transactions will be significantly faster after the merger" is wrong, although there are some minor changes, the transaction speed of L1 will remain basically the same. 4. Pledge withdrawal will not be enabled immediately after the merger, and pledge withdrawal will be enabled in the subsequent Shanghai upgrade. 5. After the Shanghai upgrade, the fee reward will be credited to the mainnet account controlled by the validator and available immediately. 6. When withdrawals are enabled, the rate at which validators/stakers withdraw is limited for security reasons. 7. More up-to-date estimates predict a post-merger staking APR closer to 50%, not 200%. 8. The merged upgrade aims to transition to proof-of-stake with zero downtime.

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