The launch date for ETH 2.0, which was originally planned for 2019, will now likely take place between 15 and 16 September, the Ethereum Foundation has announced. This follows the succes of the Goerli Testnet merge, which was the third and final testnet merge before the official Merge of the Ethereum mainnet. ETH 2.0, now known as the ‘consensus layer’, will see the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency move from the energy-hungry proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to the leaner, greener...