Despite Ethereum’s proposal to fix its high fees, some feel that more needs to be done to improve the network.
The crypto market has been on the receiving end of a market downturn during the past week, with many cryptocurrencies facing drops in valuation almost overnight, raising concerns that a bear market has commenced.
Furthermore, in the wake of this market turmoil, Ethereum network transaction fees have surged, recently achieving an all-time high, thanks in part to the influx of many new on-chain transactions initiated by various decentralized finance protocols that have made their way into the crypto domain in recent months.
And while DeFi has provided investors with financial products through decentralized exchanges by way of various lending protocols that reward liquidity providers, this very facet of the technology has resulted in the creation of an undesirable environment of high transaction fees that, in turn, has gravely affected the value of many tokens.
Technically speaking, Ethereum’s existing gas prices respond to the relatively limited number of transactions that one can facilitate using a single block.
