Declining Ethereum Gas Fees Are Causing a Significant Increase in ETH Supply: Kaiko Report
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Read more: Ethereum Gas Fees Plummet to 5-Year Low!
The Dencun upgrade allowed layer 2 networks to process their data blobs directly on the Ethereum mainnet, resulting in a notable decrease in Ethereum gas fees.
The fall in Ethereum gas fees bears big implications for Ethereum (ETH). Given that less money is lost to fees, even less and less ETH is now expected to be burnt, effectively increasing the total supply of the token positively.
Starting in April, the total supply of ETH has been increasing unabated. Hence, even strong demand factors like listing spot Ethereum ETFs may be countered by price-inhibiting supply increases in the near term.
Gas fees are paid in Ether or its more minor denomination, Gwei. This is to compensate the validators for securing the Ethereum network. These fees are pegged to supply, demand, and network capacity, usually rising during congestion periods.
On the other side of things, new data has been pointing toward Ethereum whale activity seeing a decline as well. According to Santiment, transactions of at least $100,000-worth of ETH fell drastically, from 5,371 on August 12 to 2,138 at press time.
As per Kaiko’s report, overall financial conditions also bled into the market. When the Bank of Japan raised some of its policy rates in late July, financial markets took that as a cue for higher volatility.
In justifying a major sell-off at the beginning of August, trading volumes on Japanese crypto exchanges such as Bitbank and Bitflyer surged to their highest levels since early March when Bitcoin set new record highs.
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