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Ethereum’s Broken Promise: Did Layer 2s Break the Money Thesis? | Daily Crypto Deep Dive
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Ethereum finally solved one of the biggest problems in cryptocurrency.
Transactions became cheaper, the network gained significantly more capacity, and millions of users moved onto layer-2 platforms such as Base, Arbitrum and Optimism.
But that success may have created an entirely new problem.
As activity moved away from the main network, transaction fees collapsed, the amount of ETH being burned fell sharply, and one of the asset’s most powerful investment narratives began to weaken.
In today’s Daily Crypto Deep Dive , we investigate whether layer 2s saved Ethereum or accidentally damaged the economic system supporting its native asset.
Why the network desperately needed layer-2 scaling
How rollups and blobs reduced transaction costs
Why lower fees caused the ETH burn rate to collapse