For nearly two years, between Jan. 2021 and will 2022, the typical gas fee required by the Ethereum network was roughly $40, with May 1, 2022 recording the highest average daily gas cost of $196.638. 


The Ethereum ecosystem’s biggest roadblock to thought dominance is usually attributed to the extremely high group action fees — called gas fees — it needs to complete a group action. However, with Ethereum’s average gas fees coming right down to 0.0015 Ether (ETH), the narrative is set to alter.  

The average transaction fee on the Ethereum blockchain fell down to 0.0015 ETH or $1.57 — variety previously seen in December 2020. However, beginning in January 2021, Ethereum’s gas fees surged, because of the promotion around nonfungible tokens (NFT), decentralized finance (DeFi) and a promising bull market. 

Ethereum average transaction fee YTD. Source: BitInfoCharts

For nearly 2 years, between January 2021 and should 2022, the typical gas fee needed by the Ethereum network was roughly $40, with May 1, 2022 recording the best gas cost of $196.638 — as proven by data from BitInfoCharts.  

Supporting this sudden drop in gas prices, Cointelegraph uncovered on Saturday that the daily NFTs sales have also born to annual lows. The NFT scheme recorded its worst performance of the year in June because the total range of daily sales fell to roughly 19,000, with an calculable price of $13.8 million. 

Number of daily NFT sales between June 2021 - June 2022. Source: NonFungible

In November 2021, back once various investors according outrageous gas fees, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a decrease-cost-and-cap proposal to cut back new levels of strain on the network. Buterin had proposed a short-run answer to further cut rollup costs by introducing a call-data limit per block to lower ETH gas prices.

( Arijit Sarkar, Cointelegraph, 2022)