Ethereum L2s Need Responsive Pricing to Scale, Says Offchain Labs
Summary
Offchain Labs co-founder Edward Felten advocates for "responsive pricing" on Ethereum layer-2 networks to manage congestion while maintaining predictable fees for mainstream users. Unlike the EIP-1559 model, which can lead to volatile gas spikes, responsive pricing aligns costs with actual network bottlenecks. While Arbitrum One has already implemented this model to improve efficiency, industry experts remain divided on whether it sufficiently addresses the structural limitations of gas-based fee markets as the ecosystem scales.
(Source:Cointelegraph)