‘Keanu’ Explained: What It Means to Merge Two Ethereum Projects

[Tanimariya]

In the traditional business world, corporate mergers often create behemoths that come to dominate markets and, on occasion, drive political leaders to break them up again.

This is the story of a merger in the making, but in the decentralized world of blockchain-based projects it might help to set aside all prior assumptions about what a “merger” means.

Two encryption projects, Keep and NuCypher, both running on the Ethereum blockchain, have begun discussing what they are calling a “hard merge,” codename: Keanu. Crucially, this would be a merger of their protocols’ functions and communities, not of their companies.
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