A defining mechanism of Ethereum is how EIP-1559 reshaped its fee market. By introducing a base fee that gets burned instead of paid to validators, network activity now directly reduces supply. With
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#rollups expand, more transactions settle on increasing
#calldata and burn even when users operate off-chain. The trade-off is clearer fee predictability, but validator income shifts toward tips and . Ethereum’s monetary policy is now inseparable from demand for
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