Ethereum Merge spikes block creation with a faster average block time

On Sept. 15, Ethereum completed the Merge upgrade after successfully transitioning the network to PoS. On the same day, the number of blocks created daily shot up by roughly 18% — from approximately 6,000 blocks to 7,100 blocks per day.

Complementing this move, the average block time — the time it takes the miners or validators within a network to verify transactions — for Ethereum dropped over 13%, as evidenced by data from YCharts.