3 Cryptocurrencies Expected to Outperform ETH Price Thanks to Ethereum Merger

It's not just the price of ETH that will benefit from Ethereum's move to proof-of-stake in September. Market analysis

After years of waiting, Ethereum is finally ready to become a full-fledged proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain. Besides Ethereum's native Ether (ETH) token, the valuation of several other tokens has not only benefited greatly, but may also continue to outperform ETH after the merger.

Ethereum nears merger

The leading smart contract platform completed the last of its three public testnets dubbed "Goerli", on August 11. Therefore, there should be no delays in the Ethereum "merger", which should go live on September 19.

Ether price jumped 5% to around $1,950, its highest level in more than two months, after the Goerli update. Meanwhile, some crypto assets that could benefit from a successful merger are seeing upward moves and have even outperformed ETH over the past month.

ETH/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingView

Will these tokens continue to outperform ETH price in September? Let's take a closer look.

Lido DAO (LDO)

The merger will replace Ethereum's army of miners with validators, who will face 32 ETH as an economic stake.

This major staking requirement has opened up opportunities for intermediaries, i.e. platforms that collect Ether from underfunded stakingrs and aggregate the profits to become a validator on the Ethereum blockchain. Lido DAO is one of them.

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Lido DAO is the main staking service in terms of value locked in the official Merge smart contract. Notably, he paid 4.15 million ETH into the so-called ETH 2.0 contract, leading Coinbase, which staked around. 1.55 million ETH on behalf of its clients.