by Michelle Zaremskas, Golda Velez and Nishant Sharma The Ethereum Foundation laid down a challenge to the community to analyze the performance and behavior of the chain before and after the Merge. So, here is our possibly naive analysis, performed without having done any prior work in the Ethereum ecosystem. The primary tool we used was the Alchemy API to retrieve blocks and transactions, as well as some additional libraries to examine miner rewards. Our first impression was that much remain...