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Ethereum's fee market cools as rollups lean on cheaper data
Layer-2 networks are posting data more cheaply after the latest upgrade, pushing settlement costs down and nudging activity back on-chain.
Dan Reyes
Jul 7, 2026 · 5 min read
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4 stories and guides tagged scaling.
Layer-2 networks are posting data more cheaply after the latest upgrade, pushing settlement costs down and nudging activity back on-chain.
Jul 7, 2026 · 5 min read
A wave of parallel-execution L1s is competing on raw throughput, but sustainable demand, not benchmark numbers, will decide which of these networks matters.
Jul 6, 2026 · 4 min read
A busy week of launches pushed the network to a new sustained transaction rate, reviving the scaling debate.
Jul 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Layer 2 rollups scale Ethereum by processing transactions off-chain and posting proofs back to the base layer. Here is how optimistic and zero-knowledge rollups differ.
Jun 9, 2026 · 8 min read