Cijene transakcija Ethereum mreže su pale: Blok

The Ethereum network’s transaction prices (known as gas fees) have declined significantly since 2021, according to The Block.

The report stated that the Ethereum network was at its peak during the DeFi summer and boom in the non-fungible token (NFT) issuances in 2021.

The blockchain platform’s gas fees have fallen to the lowest point in the past years, as of Sept 22, data from The Block showed.

Ethereum’s average gas price for Sept 25, was 10.96 Gwei, according to Ycharts.com, and the highest was at 474.57 Gwei on May 1, 2022, down from 50.96 one year ago. This is a change of 20.73% from yesterday and -78.50% from one year ago.

The all-time high (ATH) of average gas fees even reached 709.71 Gwei, as of June 11 in 2020, which was much higher than the current level.

Source: Ycharts.com

Despite the fall in gas fees, Ethereum transaction count and daily active users have not dropped concurrently. According to The Block, the likely culprit could be that transacting users don’t see the need to pay high costs to complete their transactions quickly.

The Block Research data analyst Simon Cousaert explained that “people are not in a hurry and are not willing to pay more for their transactions to go through sooner.”

The report also added that statistics do not indicate nearing all-time lows, as shown by the total transaction count and active addresses on the Ethereum network. The opposite is the actual case; both have increased roughly 20% and 60% in the same two-year time frame, respectively.

uniswap, OpenSea, and ETH transfers were the highest gas-consuming smart contracts in the past month, according to The Block’s data.

NFT marketplace OpenSea has been a huge contributor to a huge portion of the total gas consumption during the entire 14-month period but has fallen significantly since January.

The Block added that this caused other transactions on the network, such as transfers and token swaps, to cost an astronomical amount more.

There has been significant growth in the Layer 2 space. The report added that the primary growth was seen in optimistic rollup solutions such as Arbitrum and Optimism. 

Transaction counts on the leading optimistic rollup solutions are on an upward trajectory, even though transaction costs are reaching new lows.

In another development, the latest upgrade on Ethereum (the Merge) is lowering the supply of Ether (ETH) in the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus, data from Ethereum tracker Ultrasound Money showed.

Druga veća kriptovaluta, međutim, još uvijek može imati dug put prije nego što postane deflaciona.

Neka od ključnih obećanja koja je nadogradnja obećala za Ethereum blockchain bila su poboljšati efikasnost i učiniti mrežu skalabilnijom, smanjiti ponudu Ethera, čineći ga deflacionom imovinom i drugo.

Pokazatelji web portala Ultrasound Money pokazuju da je opskrba eterom u okviru proof-of-stake mreže porasla za više od 5,990 od Merge događaja do sada. Ali ovaj broj je manji nego što bi mogao biti u okviru mehanizma konsenzusa o dokazima o radu, pokazuju podaci.

Besides that, the number is much lower than the supply of Bitcoin, whose network produces 6.25 BTC coins every ten minutes running on the proof-of-work mechanism.

Prema platformi Ultrasound Money, Eter može postati deflaciona kada su novčići iz blok subvencija niži od onih koji se spaljuju. Nadalje, ETH će postati deflaciona imovina kada broj ljudi koji obavljaju transakcije s novčićem poraste veći od onih koji ga ulažu.

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