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Ethereum (ETH) gas fees jumped to a 10-month high — prompted by a surge in meme coin mania.
Per <a href="https://twitter.com/glassnodealerts/status/1649295795366010881">Glassnode</a>, the median Ethereum gas price over a seven-day moving average (7DMA) reached 43.641 gwei — a price last seen on June 30, 2022.
Gwei is a denomination of ETH — with 1,000,000,000 gwei equaling 1 ETH, or 1 gwei equaling 0.000000001 ETH.
Over the past year, the median gas price over a 7DMA peaked at 150 gwei in May 2022 but dropped sharply by July 2022. It then gradually stabilized around the 20 gwei mark going into September 2022, when the Merge rolled out.
<figure id="attachment_319493" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-319493" style="width: 680px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-319493 size-full" src="https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FuN5yPLWYAErTdz.jpg" alt="Ethereum median gas fees" width="680" height="340" srcset="https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FuN5yPLWYAErTdz.jpg 680w, https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FuN5yPLWYAErTdz-300x150.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-319493" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Glassnode.com</figcaption></figure>
<h2 id="ethereum-gas-fees">Ethereum gas fees</h2>
The cost of using Ethereum has been a point of contention since the &#8220;<a href="https://bitpushnews.medium.com/if-defi-summer-was-2020-and-nft-summer-was-2021-what-will-summer-2022-be-ffae37697ff1">DeFi Summer</a>&#8221; of 2020 — when the average gas price reached as high as 700 gwei.
This period saw network activity surge as yield protocols, such as Curve, Compound, and Yearn, began taking off — triggering mania from the demand to farm unreal gains.
Ethereum&#8217;s architecture is such that high gas fees come about when network traffic and the demand for transaction verification is high.
While some assumed the Merge and the switch to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus would tackle this problem, it was <a href="https://cryptoslate.com/ethereum-merge-will-not-reduce-gas-fees-defi-researcher-says/">confirmed</a> that gas fees remain primarily driven by the demand for blocks and the network&#8217;s capacity to meet that demand — not the consensus mechanism used.
Recently, Ethereum network activity has skyrocketed with a wave of newly released meme coins — some of which netted early investors gains in the thousands of percent.
<h2 id="meme-coins-are-back">Meme coins are back</h2>
PEPE is one such meme coin, which has risen to become the sixth largest by market cap at $89.1 million in a few days.
<figure id="attachment_319553" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-319553" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-319553 size-large" src="https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Capture-5-1024x314.png" alt="PEPE ranks 6th biggest meme coin" width="1024" height="314" srcset="https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Capture-5-1024x314.png 1024w, https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Capture-5-300x92.png 300w, https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Capture-5-768x235.png 768w, https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Capture-5.png 1132w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-319553" class="wp-caption-text">Source: <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/meme-token">CoinGecko.com</a></figcaption></figure>
PEPE reached a local top of $0.000000391704 on April 20 and has been trending downwards since.
The success of PEPE has spurred social media chatter on which meme coin is next to spike. For example, a tweet from <a href="https://twitter.com/liquiditygoblin/status/1649353033988587520">@liquiditygoblin</a> said meme season is back — tagging &#8220;<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24PEPE&amp;src=cashtag_click">$PEPE</a>, <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24WOJAK&amp;src=cashtag_click">$WOJAK</a>, <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ny4l3l r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24COPE&amp;src=cashtag_click">$COPE</a>.&#8221;
<div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs">
<div class="css-901oao css-1hf3ou5 r-1bwzh9t r-18u37iz r-37j5jr r-1wvb978 r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr">Despite the mania surrounding meme coins, <a href="https://twitter.com/ManLyNFT/status/1649137742322843648">@ManLyNFT</a> warned that, while they can be fun, they are also high risk.</div>
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