Vitalik Buterin believes that L2 scaling solutions need to become more efficient, and their transaction fees need to be as low as $0.05 to become truly acceptable
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted that layer-2 scaling solutions, despite their progress, need to bring down their transaction fees to as low as $0.05 in order to be truly accepted by the developer community and crypto masses.
Vitalik Buterin made this comment in response to a tweet by Ryan Sean Adams, the host of the Bankless podcast, who tweeted a screenshot displaying transaction fees of eight layer-2 scaling solutions. The screenshot had data insights from the website L2fees.info which compares Ethereum’s Layer-1 network to the Layer-2 network built on top of Ethereum.
Adams stressed that layer-2 scaling solutions play a significant role in keeping Ethereum affordable and noted that Ethereum is not expensive. But Vitalik stated otherwise and said that the network is still getting there. The average transaction fees on Ethereum currently stand at 1.7 ETH at the time of writing. He tweeted, “Needs to get under $0.05 to be truly acceptable, imo. But we're definitely making great progress, and even proto-danksharding may be enough to get us there for a while!”
The proto-danksharding or EIP-4844, referred to by Buterin in his tweet, is a recently proposed upgrade to provide a new and simplified design instead of the previous sharding designs for Ethereum. The upgrade will be implemented onto the network without any sharding upgrades activated on the Ethereum network.
The major goal of this upgrade will be to help the network attain large scalability in the short term, thereby reducing network congestion and gas fees. Buterin had talked in detail about the technical aspects and goals of the EIP-4844 upgrade in a blog post last month. The sharding upgrade is scheduled to happen sometime in 2023 after the Merge when the Mainnet integrates with the Beacon Chain.