Ethereum Layer-2 Fees Need To Be Under $0.05: Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum layer-2 fees need to be under $0.05 according to Vitalik Buterin and though he thinks the project is making great progress, there’s much to be done still so let’s read more today in our latest Ethereum news.

Ethereum, the world’s biggest smart contracts platform was plagued by high transaction costs, and developers were trying to address the issue via the layer-2 solutions which help scale applications by processing the transactions of the ETH Mainnet while maintaining the same level of security and decentralization. While transaction fees on most layer-2 networks are lower when compared to the ETH mainnet, Vitalik Buterin reckoned they need to be under five cents to be acceptable:

“Needs to get under $0.05 to be truly acceptable [in my opinion]. But we’re definitely making great progress, and even proto-danksharding may be enough to get us there for a while!”

This is Ethereum and it's not expensive. pic.twitter.com/6xUpapFbY1

— RYAN SΞAN ADAMS – rsa.eth 🦇🔊 (@RyanSAdams) May 3, 2022

The Ethereum layer-2 fees need to be lower and Buterin proposed improvements for the network that is designed to help the network scale in the short term. The upgrade enabled the new type of transaction called a blob-carrying transaction which carries extra data which can’t be accessed by the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Buterin’s response came as a post from Ryan Sean Adams who shared a screenshot of the average gas fee for eight popular layer-2 networks and calculated by L2 fees.

The highest was Arbitrum One at $0.66 to send ETH and $0.92 for a token swap while the lowest was at the Metis network at $0.02 to send ETH and $0.15 for a token swap. For comparison, the average transaction on the ETH minute now costs 0.005 ETH as per the data from Bitinfocharts. The figure was higher following the Yuga Labs’ latest NFT collection launch which resulted in average gas fees and surged to nearly $200. this is not the first time the ETH co-founder outlined the issue of gas fees on the network and Buterin called for the ETH Fee market reform and argued that the high gas cost can make the network less secure. He also said that he supports previous comments that the internet of money should not cost more than 5 cents per transaction:

“That was the goal in 2017, and it’s still the goal now. It’s precisely why we’re spending so much time working on scalability.”