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Otherdeed Burns, Looming Signals, & Intro to Webaverse
This resulted in gas prices hitting as high as 79k Gwei from their low points of 25 Gwei on the same...
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NFTs
May 2022
Top Performing Layer Ones, Market Metrics, and Axie's Sharp Growth
While the average gas price bottomed out at 11 gwei, transactions settled for even 7-8 gwei for short...
4 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2021
Black Wednesday
Over $2 billion of BTC exposure liquidated today Deribit futures trade at -75% basis Gas hits 1700 gwei...Key Takeaways Gas eclipsed 2000 gwei briefly and was between 1500 and 1700 gwei for about an hour.
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DeFi
May 2021
ETH Active Addresses Surge, Deep Dive on Soulbound Tokens
Since then, the average gas fee has typically remained above 40 gwei, with even higher fees during popular...More recently, the average gas fee has trended lower around 25 gwei.
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Layer 1 / L1
Aug 2022
Post-Merge Fallout: A Closer Look Into Price and Issuance
On the flip side, the average price of gas over the last week has only been 10-12 Gwei....In fact, the average daily gas price since the beginning of 2020 is 76 Gwei....However, even if we double the amount of ETH staked at the average gas price of 76 Gwei, ETH net issuance...
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Macro & Markets
Sep 2022
What You Should Know About MEV and How It Affects Gas Costs
As opportunities popped up in every nook and corner, arbitrageurs were paying as much as 3000 gwei per...When multiple transactions are paying the same amount of gwei for gas, Ethereum miners running Go Ethereum...The median gas price peaked in Feb. 2021 at 300 gwei, and rising costs were further extended by ETH’s...
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Block Production
Apr 2021
NFTs: The Lay of The Land
CryptoKitties network congestion when over 50,000 transactions happened in a single day gas reached 60 gwei...February 2021 with significantly developed DeFi and NFT ecosystems and average gas costs have reached 250 gwei...
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NFTs
Feb 2021
Revenge of the Yams (Yam Finance)
Currently on Uniswap,1 uGAS-MAR21 = 0.076 ETH (76 gwei)....He buys 10 ETH worth of uGAS-MAR21, going long gas at 131.6 of those tokens (=10 ETH /0.076 gwei)....Let’s say ETH gas prices rise this month to a 30-day median price of 0.15 ETH (125 gwei)....Mark’s tokens now total 19.7 ETH (=131.6 gwei x0.15 ETH).
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Derivatives
Feb 2021
Sushiswap on Polygon, ETH Outperforms BTC, and Rising Gas Prices
Key Takeaways Gas prices are up 10x in the last week, after bottoming out at 35 gwei last week....A majority of the increase happened over the last few hours as gas soared from 100 gwei at 7 AM UTC to...
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Infrastructure
May 2021
Relief for DAI, Multi-Chain Competition, and Exchange Balances
For comparison, a DEX swap costs ~$70 (~70 gwei gas price) on Ethereum while the same on Solana or Terra...
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Infrastructure
Dec 2021
Cheap Gas, DAO Updates, & DeFi Perps Plunge
Gas prices have significantly decreased from their peak last month of 218 Gwei to just around 60 Gwei...
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Stablecoins
Feb 2022
Diamond Hands: This Week’s Debrief
Gas hits 1700 gwei. BTC exchange inflows at highest level since March 2020.
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Derivatives
May 2021
Ethereum Congestion & L2's Needed Jolt
Ethereum is Congested It costs $10 to do a simple ETH transfer again, and median gas is now up to 150 gwei...with occasional spikes to 1000-5000 gwei (not a typo).
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Infrastructure
Sep 2021
Will ETH Remain Inflationary Despite The Merge?
On the flip side, the average gas price over the last week has only been 10-12 gwei....The average gas price since 2020 has been 76 gwei.
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Macro & Markets
Sep 2022
ETH Supply Turns Net Deflationary Since the Merge
Median gas prices on Ethereum have remained at elevated levels after spiking to reach 35 Gwei on Oct....During 2021, gas prices were frequently over 100 Gwei.
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Proof-of-Stake
Nov 2022
Is FTX's Serum The DeFi Cure?
Despite miners voting up the gas limit, Gas prices have ballooned from an average of ~10-15 Gwei  in...March to ~50-75 Gwei in July.
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Infrastructure
Jul 2020
NFTs: The Lay of The Land
CryptoKitties network congestion when over 50,000 transactions happened in a single day gas reached 60 gwei...February 2021 with significantly developed DeFi and NFT ecosystems and average gas costs have reached 250 gwei...
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NFTs
Feb 2021
zkVerify: The Missing Layer in The Modular Era
Groth16 proofs cost around 200k-300k gas (roughly $20 at 30 gwei and $3k ETH)....In times of network congestion, gas prices have reached over 100 Gwei....Currently, Starknet pays $154 (4 Gwei / $2.6k ETH price) in fees to submit and verify a single proof...Keep in mind, this is the best-case scenario assuming Ethereum maintains 4 Gwei all year, which isn’t...
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Infrastructure
Aug 2025
BTC Leading The Way, Polygon Transactions Drop
Average gas has spiked and is consistently above 50+ Gwei since then and the increased fees have likely...
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Layer 1 / L1
Oct 2021
Get Ready for Balancer’s First-Ever Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool ($PERP)
...this current fee environment, open and closing positions would cost around $100 when gas is at 500 gwei...
4 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020