The Next Cycle Is Won in Go-to-Market
Blockspace stopped being scarce, and almost nobody adjusted their strategy.
The numbers are not ambiguous. Ethereum mainnet fees have fallen materially after successive upgrades. Solana transactions cost fractions of a cent. Blob space, the data layer L2s post to,
runs under 30 percent full with blob fees a negligible share of total fee revenue, and Coin Metrics' read is direct: the L1 has scaled ahead of settlement demand, and the cost of settling on Ethereum is no longer a meaningful moat.
When the input everyone was competing to sell becomes abundant and cheap, competitive advantage moves. It moved to whoever can package the thing and stand behind it commercially in front of a buyer.
Capacity Is Abundant and Consolidation Started
Across Ethereum's scaling networks, total value locked exceeds $45 billion, and the top three chains hold more than 70 percent of it. Fifty-plus tracked networks divide the remainder, and many are approaching a cliff as the grant programs that funded them wind down.