There has been growing discussion around the possibility of increasing Ethereum’s gas throughput, either by raising the gas limit or reducing slot time. The key argument in favor of this is that the hardware requirements for running a validator have steadily decreased over the past four years.

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According to Etherscan data, the current Ethereum network gas fee has fallen below 1 gwei, currently at 0.937 gwei.

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Christine Kim, Vice President of Galaxy Research, summarized the main content of the 139th ACDC conference call. The debugging of Pectra's upgraded Devnet 2 is currently underway, and the release date of Devnet 3 is yet to be determined. Developers will hold weekly testing update meetings starting from Monday to better coordinate the release of Pectra's Devnet. The decision to include EIP-7688 in Pectra's upgrade has been postponed again.

According to Ether­scan data, the current gas fee on the Ethereum network has dropped to 1 gwei.

According to DappRadar data, DApp activity on the Ethereum network increased by 55% in the past seven days. The surge in activity on the Ethereum network was mainly driven by Uniswap, followed by 1inch Network and CoW Swap. Other notable contributors include Curve, Instadapp, and Morpho Optimizers.

1.Jump Trading is redeeming 120,000 wstETH in batches into ETH and then transferring it to CEX

According to the monitoring of on-chain analyst Yu Jin, Jump Trading may be selling ETH: they are currently redeeming a wstETH (120,000 pieces) worth $410 million in batches into ETH and then transferring it to exchanges such as Binance/OKX. So far, they have unpacked and redeemed 83,000 wstETH into 97,500 ETH in the 9 days since July 25. Among them, 66,000 ETH (191.4 million US dollars) have entered the exchange.At present, there are still 37,600 wstETH in their wstETH storage address that have not been transferred out; 11,500 stETH in the redemption ETH address is being redeemed into ETH; and 20,000 ETH in the ETH transfer address to the exchange are waiting to enter the exchange in batches.