{"id":9256,"date":"2025-01-23T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9256"},"modified":"2025-01-23T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:47:02","slug":"ethereum-layer-2-protocols-achieve-record-transaction-throughput","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9256","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Layer-2 Protocols Achieve Record Transaction Throughput"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ethereum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/learn\/what-are-layer-2s\/\" target=\"_blank\">layer-2 protocols<\/a> are processing transactions faster than ever, with Coinbase&#8217;s BASE at the forefront of this progress.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.growthepie.xyz\/fundamentals\/throughput\" target=\"_blank\">growthepie.xyz<\/a>, the cumulative transaction throughput for layer 2s has skyrocketed to 29.64 million gas units per second (Mgas\/s), the highest pace ever recorded. BASE leads the way, accounting for 67% of the total. Gas is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/learn\/what-are-ethereum-gas-fees\" target=\"_blank\">fee users pay<\/a> to conduct a transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Layer-2 protocols are scaling solutions built on top of primary blockchains like Ethereum, and are designed to handle a higher volume of transactions at lower cost. The metric of millions of gas units per second reflects the number of transactions the network processes each second.<\/p>\n<p>This surge in throughput comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/01\/20\/ethereum-l2s-are-about-to-hit-a-brick-wall-polynomial-protocol-founder\" target=\"_blank\">amid concerns that<\/a> sustained demand for layer 2 solutions could quickly exhaust available capacity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum layer-2 protocols are processing transactions faster than ever, with Coinbase&#8217;s BASE at the forefront of this progress. According to data from growthepie.xyz, the cumulative transaction throughput for layer 2s has skyrocketed to 29.64 million gas units per second (Mgas\/s), the highest pace ever recorded. BASE leads the way, accounting for 67% of the total. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-9256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}