Ethereum Fees Cool After Huge Spike Caused by Terra Chaos
According to data provided by Santiment, Ethereum gas prices have plunged to the level since last summer.
Ethereum gas fees are denominated in giga wei (Gwei). Users must pay them in order to perform any activity on top of the Ethereum blockchain.
Gas fees usually get significantly higher when the network becomes too congested.
Earlier this month, Ethereum fees saw a huge increase due to Terra’s implosion despite Ether’s price seeing a huge drop
After TerraUSD (UST) lost its peg, users started transferring more Ethereum-based centralized stablecoins. Tether (USDT) and Circle’s USDC briefly became the biggest gas guzzlers on the Ethereum network.
Ethereum continues to come under fire for having high transaction fees. Its lack of scaling has led to the emergence of competing blockchains like Avalanche and Solana.
That said, Ethereum is expected to solve the aforementioned issue with the help of sharding after the merge.
As reported by U.Today, co-founder Vitalik Buterin predicted that Ethereum 2.0, the proof-of-stake iteration of the second-largest blockchain, could end up launching as early as August.
Apart from eliminating high gas fees, the merge is also expected to drastically reduce Ethereum’s energy consumption.
