How The Merge Impacts Rollups and Bridges

September 1, 2022, 1:20PM EDT

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The Ethereum Merge is drawing significant attention from the crypto community and many traders are attempting to speculate on the developments pre- and post-Merge
One of the main implications is that traders will attempt to maximize the amount of Ether held by their private keys pre-Merge, which may include borrowing Ether from alternative ecosystems
Rollups, bridges and alt L1s will likely see an outflow of Ether from their TVL and liquidity pools and into Ethereum mainnet
There will likely be a scramble post-Merge where traders would seek to unwind any leveraged positions on alternative ecosystems

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