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Ethereum Transaction Fees Set a Record Once Again as DeFi Becomes Even Pricier

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Sep 1, 2020 at 15:18 UTCUpdated Sep 1, 2020 at 19:16 UTC

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Ethereum average and median network fees since 2017.

Ethereum transaction fees have soared to new all-time highs for the second time in three weeks, according to on-chain data analyzed by CoinDesk.

  • As of Tuesday, average and median transaction fees have skyrocketed to record highs of $10.33 and $5.68, respectively.
  • Average fees reached record highs of $6.04 on Aug. 13, as CoinDesk previously reported, while median fees stayed just below their all-time highs of $3.03.

eth-fees-athEthereum average and median network fees since 2017. Source: Blockchair

  • Steep network fees are a “double-edged sword” for Ethereum, said Wilson Withiam, Ethereum analyst at Messari, in a private message with CoinDesk. “They can ward off potential users,” he noted. But rising fees also signify “an increase in network utilization and demand for block space.”
  • As fees increase, entities responsible for large on-chain transaction volume are searching for techniques to reduce pressure on the network.
  • For example, leading stablecoin tether (USDT), the second-largest consumer of Ethereum gas fees, will “investigate” the addition of an Ethereum-scaling technique called zk-rollups that allows transactions to be batched off-chain and reduce transaction pressure on the network.
  • “The idea behind zk-rollups is aggregating multiple operations (transfers, smart contract calls, …) into one single L1 transaction that ‘compress’ all the underlying transactions,” Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino said in an email to CoinDesk. “Zk-rollups are at the moment the most comprehensive L2 solution for the Ethereum scalability problem.”
  • As transaction fees continue to increase, largely caused by the continued explosion of decentralized finance (DeFi), this is causing DeFi to “slowly become a game reserved for the wealthy,” Withiam said.

Read more: High Ethereum Fees Push Tether to Its Eighth Blockchain, OMG Network

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