Bitcoin and Ethereum: Soft touch for landmark crypto hard fork

All eyes were on Ethereum (ETH) in the past 24 hours, as the high-stakes Shanghai hard fork, which has finally allowed the tens of thousands of ETH stakers to access and potentially sell their coins, went live. Unlike the years of delays that blighted Ethereum’s last major upgrade ‘The Merge’, Shanghai went off without a hitch, dead on the expected time stamp of 10.27pm UTC.