With Ethereum’s highly-anticipated Shanghai upgrade slated for March, the blockchain’s validator count has just hit a massive milestone. According to BeaconScan, there are now over 500,000 validators securing the network with over 16 million ETH staked. Besides the bullish node count, a new report from Alchemy also revealed that 2022 was a massive year for Ethereum developers. Compared to 2021, last year saw a whopping 293% rise in the number of smart contracts deployed to mainnet.
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