Here’s How Much ETH Has Been Burned By EIP-1559

More than 70,000 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) coins have been burned or removed from the network’s circulation. 

  • The transaction fee-burning update, EIP-1559, came into effect on August 5.
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  • The EIP-1559 burns ETH that had been used to pay for transactions on the Ethereum network. 
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  • Before EIP-1559, the Ethereum network didn’t burn tokens; instead, gas fees went to Ethereum miners, a decentralized network of powerful computers that keep the network running.
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  • The network is used to determine the gas price according to the demand. 
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  • EIP-1559 replaced that with a flat fee which costs 32 gwei ($2.1) to process a simple transaction in 3 minutes. 
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  • It costs approximately $8.80 to transfer a token on NFT marketplaces.
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  • Ethereum stakers verify transactions by pledging ETH to the Ethereum 2.0 smart contract. 
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  • According to data from blockchain analytics firm Nansen, the amount staked on Ethereum surpassed 7 million ETH, worth $22.9 billion.
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  • Staked ETH is locked until an update that will follow the “merge”—when Ethereum 1.0 and 2.0 communicate for the first time.

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