Ethereum’s high gas fee crisis won’t be solved by EIP-1559: Coin Metrics report

by Cointelegraph By Martin Young | Mar 24, 2021 | EIP 1559, ETH, ETHEREUM, Gas, Transactions

Consistently full blocks are the primary reason that gas prices have reached all-time...

Ethereum devs grumble as Harvest Finance and Value Defi eye Binance Smart Chain

by Cointelegraph By Andrew Thurman | Feb 12, 2021 | Binance, Centralization, Decentralization, Gas, Harvest, Value DeFi, Yield Farming

Two Ethereum-native DeFi protocols are headed to Binance Smart Chain, but critics doubt the layer-1 has staying...

Cardano, Polkadot Market Caps Surpass XRP as Some Bet on Alternatives to Ethereum

by Muyao Shen | Feb 8, 2021 | Cardano, DeFi, ETHEREUM, Ethereum Killer, Gas, Markets, Polkadot, XRP

The price of gas continues to rise on Ethereum, squeezing smaller retail traders using DEXs.

One Big Pool: Balancer’s New Version Cuts Down Transactions and Gas Fees

by Brady Dale | Feb 2, 2021 | Automated Market Makers, Balancer, business, DeFi, ETHEREUM, Gas, Tech

Version 2 of the DeFi site also has an "asset manager" where idle funds earn yield.

High Gas Fees Prevent Ethereum From Being Ethereum

by Michael Garbade | Oct 14, 2020 | ETHEREUM, Gas, Opinion, Scaling, Tech

Miners are incentivized to keep Ethereum gas fees high, and in doing so limit one of the network's principal use cases.

DeFi projects rush towards Layer 2 as Ethereum clogs up

by Cointelegraph By Martin Young | Sep 24, 2020 | Aave, DeFi, ETHEREUM, Gas, L2, Synthetix, Uniswap

Leading DeFi protocols are rushing to implement Layer 2 to ease the burden of high gas...