{"id":58424,"date":"2022-02-28T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58424"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:44:40","slug":"ethereum-gas-costs-fall-as-on-chain-activity-wanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-gas-costs-fall-as-on-chain-activity-wanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum gas costs fall as on-chain activity wanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against a backdrop of waning transaction activity, the average gas price on the Ethereum network fell to a six-month low, near 46 Gwei. This is according to data from <a href=\\\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=ETH&#038;category=&#038;m=fees.GasPriceMean&#038;s=1614521378&#038;u=1646057378&#038;zoom=365\\\">Glassnode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-large\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"1024\\\" height=\\\"576\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-mean-transaction-gas-price-gwei-1024x576.png\\\" alt=\\\"Ethereum gas price falls amid waning on-chain activity\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-166606\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-mean-transaction-gas-price-gwei-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-mean-transaction-gas-price-gwei-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-mean-transaction-gas-price-gwei-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-mean-transaction-gas-price-gwei-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-mean-transaction-gas-price-gwei.png 1800w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=ETH&#038;category=&#038;m=fees.GasPriceMean&#038;s=1614521378&#038;u=1646057378&#038;zoom=365\\\">Glassnode<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-large\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"1024\\\" height=\\\"576\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-number-of-transactions-1-1024x576.png\\\" alt=\\\"Number of transactions on Ethereum network\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-166608\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-number-of-transactions-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-number-of-transactions-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-number-of-transactions-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-number-of-transactions-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-number-of-transactions-1.png 1800w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=ETH&#038;category=&#038;m=transactions.Count&#038;s=1630332556&#038;u=1646057356&#038;zoom=182\\\">Glassnode<\/a>. <br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The daily number of transactions on the Ethereum blockchain has been falling since October 2021. At the time of writing, this figure stands at 1.1 million transactions, well below the six-month peak in October (1.47 million).<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image size-large\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" width=\\\"1024\\\" height=\\\"576\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-percent-of-supply-in-smart-contracts-1024x576.png\\\" alt=\\\"Share of ETH supply in smart contracts\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-166609\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-percent-of-supply-in-smart-contracts-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-percent-of-supply-in-smart-contracts-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-percent-of-supply-in-smart-contracts-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-percent-of-supply-in-smart-contracts-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/glassnode-studio_ethereum-percent-of-supply-in-smart-contracts.png 1800w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\\\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/studio.glassnode.com\/metrics?a=ETH&#038;category=Favorites&#038;m=distribution.SupplyContracts&#038;s=1630336292&#038;u=1646061092&#038;zoom=182\\\">Glassnode<\/a>. <br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Vitalik Buterin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/vitalik-buterin-proposes-ways-to-cut-ethereums-transaction-costs\">proposed two proposals<\/a> aimed at reducing transaction costs in the Ethereum network. Both rely on ZK-Rollups technology.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In February 2022, the Matter Labs team <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/developers-roll-out-zksync-on-testnet-to-scale-ethereum\">deployed zkSync 2.0 on the Ethereum testnet<\/a> as the first EVM-compatible Layer 2 solution based on ZK-Rollups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against a backdrop of waning transaction activity, the average gas price on the Ethereum network reached a six-month low near 46 Gwei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-58424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58426,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58424\/revisions\/58426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}