Cryptocurrency funding agency Grayscale Investments is taking extra time to determine whether or not it ought to purchase and promote post-Merge forked Ethereum tokens.

Grayscale introduced on March 16 that the corporate intends to increase the assessment interval for evaluating the market atmosphere to find out whether or not it might purchase EthereumPoW (ETHW) tokens — the forked asset that emerged after Ethereum’s Merge in September 2022.

In the course of the assessment interval, the agency additionally goals to determine whether or not, when and in what method Grayscale might promote ETHW on behalf of the report date shareholders. “Such assessment interval isn’t at the moment anticipated to exceed 180 days from the date hereof,” Grayscale famous within the announcement.

Grayscale reasoned the extension of the assessment interval to the continuing uncertainty relating to the assist of ETHW tokens by digital asset custodians and buying and selling venues. “If digital asset custodians do assist the ETHPoW tokens and/or buying and selling markets do develop, it’s anticipated that the ETHPoW token’s worth will fluctuate broadly for a while,” Grayscale stated, including:

“It isn’t potential to foretell whether or not Grayscale, as agent, will be capable to purchase the ETHPoW tokens or the worth, if any, that Grayscale, as agent, will be capable to understand from gross sales of the ETHPoW tokens.”

Ethereum, at the moment the second-largest blockchain community by market worth after Bitcoin, accomplished the Merge, a serious consensus improve in September 2022. The improve moved the Ethereum community from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm. As some folks within the Ethereum group have been prepared to maintain utilizing the mining-based PoW Ethereum mannequin, Ethereum has forked into two totally different blockchains, the primary PoS-based Ethereum and EthereumPoW.

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The emergence of ETHW has introduced a major problem for crypto funding corporations providing publicity to Ethereum as a result of some buyers would possibly need to have publicity to ETHW. Some corporations, such because the European exchange-traded product (ETP) issuer ETC Group, determined to launch a brand new ETP offering unique publicity to ETHW.

“The brand new ETP appears higher as a result of we simply don’t know what’s going to occur whether or not ETHW will succeed or not,” ETC Group founder Bradley Duke advised Cointelegraph in September 2022.

Grayscale beforehand introduced in September that its two Ethereum-related merchandise, the Grayscale Ethereum Belief and the Grayscale Digital Giant Cap Fund, declared a distribution of rights to ETHW. The tokens have been acquired by every product on account of a fork by late September.