Listen, think about how much cheaper it is to use blockchains now! If earlier it cost like a cup of coffee to transfer bitcoin or ethereum, now it costs like candy from a vending machine. Let me tell you what happened.
Exactly one year ago, in April 2024, an average of $16.16 had to be deposited per transaction on the Bitcoin network. This was due to the high load on the network, especially after halving — then block number 840,000 was mined, and the reward for it was halved. All this caused a surge in activity and, consequently, an increase in commissions.
And now, attention — as of April 18, 2025, the average commission is only $0.913! It's less than a dollar per transfer, and if you don't need it urgently, you can pay a penny at all — $0.35, and you'll still be included in the next block.
There are only about 21,000 applications in the mempool (this is a queue of unconfirmed transactions). For comparison, a year ago on the same day there were almost 250 thousand of them! In other words, the load on the network dropped significantly, and this immediately affected the transfer prices.
And things are even more interesting in Ethereum. Fees fell by 92.36%, from $4.03 to $0.31. That is, if you just send ETH, you pay about 1 guinea (this is a local unit of measurement, like a "penny" for ether), and a priority transaction costs 0.01 dollars in general. Confirmation takes place in half a minute!
Now look at this:
Token exchange — $ 0.22
NFT Sale — $ 0.37
Moving across bridges (bridging) — $0.07
The loan is also about $ 0.37
A year ago, the same actions cost 20-35 dollars each! It's just an incredible difference.
So users are really benefiting now. You can actively use decentralized applications, transfer crypto, buy NFT — and all this is almost free. This opens up a lot of possibilities for mass use.
So tell me, do you think this is a temporary downturn, or are we really entering the era of an affordable crypto economy?
