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How to get and sell Ethereum forks: Ethereum PoW (ETHW) and EthereumFair (ETF)?

by Patricia

When Ethereum went live, all ETH owners received an equivalent number of ETHW and ETF tokens. We explain how to get and sell them.

An update not popular with miners

As you know, Ethereum made its update, The Merge, last week. Some miners did not want to switch from mining (PoW) to staking (PoS) and therefore chose to support a fork of the Ethereum blockchain to continue securing a network via mining. Thus, two forks have emerged: Ethereum PoW, the best known and most supported, and EthereumFair, less expected and therefore less capitalised.

How to get your Ethereum PoW (ETHW) back

You had Ethers on an exchange platform

If the exchange supported the fork, then it credited your account with as many ETHW as you had ETH. This allows you to sell them immediately if you wish. Here is a list of some platforms that support the ETHW fork:

  • Kraken
  • FTX
  • Bybit
  • Bitfinex

You had your ETH on a MetaMask wallet

To get your ETHW back, you need to add the Ethereum PoW network to your MetaMask, here are its features:

  • Network Name: ETHW-mainnet
  • New RPC URL: mainnet.ethereumpow.org
  • ChainID: 10001
  • Symbol: ETHW
  • Explorer: mainnet.ethwscan.com

To add a new network, first click on the “Ethereum mainnet” at the top of your extension and then on “Add a network”.


By selecting the Ethereum POW network, you can now see all the tokens you have on that blockchain.

If you want to sell them you will then have to send your ETHW to a platform supporting the fork like FTX or Bybit for example.

You had ETH on a Ledger wallet

You’ll have to do a little more complicated manipulation, but nothing insurmountable don’t worry.

Connect your Ledger to your MetaMask. Be careful not to import the seed of your Ledger into your MetaMask but just to connect a hardware wallet.

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You will be reusing the EthereumPoW network features shown above.

Once the network is added you should see the same amount of ETHW as you have ETH on this wallet.

How to get your EthereumFair (ETF)

The manipulations are almost identical. However, far fewer exchanges support this fork. Only Huobi, Gate.io and Poloniex support this new cryptocurrency.

If you want to get your ETFs on MetaMask or on your Ledger then you will have to indicate the information when adding the EthereumFair network on MetaMask:

  • Network Name: EthereumFair
  • New RPC URL: rpc.etherfair.org
  • ChainID: 513100
  • Symbol: ETF
  • Explorer: explorer.etherfair.org

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