DeFi Builders Speak Out. What the Crowd Is Getting Wrong About the Ethereum Merge

“Ethereum and Bitcoin, the two oldest and largest blockchain projects, are both still using PoW which is widely (and rightly) considered wasteful,” Mihailo Bjelic, co-founder of Polygon, told CoinDesk in an email. “Lately that has started to significantly impact the public opinion about Ethereum as a development platform and some startups, and enterprises became hesitant to explore Web3.”