$ETH gas fees:
• 2021 = $100 🚀
• 2022 = $40 💸
• 2023 = $5 😌
• 2025 = $0.03 🧊
Ethereum just entered a new phase—and no one’s talking about it.
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1. The “High-Gas Era” (2021-2022):
NFT mania, DeFi summer, and insane network congestion.
Gas fees hit $100+ for basic swaps.
Ethereum was powerful, but not scalable.
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2. The Merge (2022):
Ethereum shifted from Proof of Work ➡️ Proof of Stake.
This reduced energy use by 99.9%, but gas fees were still high.
Scalability wasn’t solved—yet.
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3. The Rollup Revolution (2023):
L2s like Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, Base began to explode.
Fees dropped from $5 ➡️ cents.
Users started moving off L1 to L2.
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4. 2025: Ethereum = Settlement Layer 🧠
Mainnet is now the base layer, handling large transfers and finality.
L2s do the heavy lifting.
With EIP-4844 (proto-danksharding) & blobs, fees dropped to $0.03.
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5. What this means:
Ethereum is now:
• Cheap
• Fast
• Modular
• Decentralized
But no one’s screaming about it, because it just… works.
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6. TL;DR:
Ethereum isn’t just alive—
It’s silently dominating.
The gas fee narrative is dead.
The Ethereum scalability dream is now real.
