Base

New flashblocks research post positing that mev is the bottleneck for ceiling

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In the worst case, spam neutralizes scaling altogether

From Nov '24 to Feb '25, Base added 11M in gas/s throughput. Three Ethereum Mainnets worth of capacity!

It was all consumed by spam bots
"

https://x.com/bertcmiller/status/1934657993939013851?t=yri2xJ4AccGV2qI6u4KdAQ&s=19

and right on time, we have additional fee market discussion to disincentivize spam from the base team

any research on how increasing the default base fee would price certain existing apps out?

That’s awesome how they’re tackling spam with fee adjustments, though I wonder if it might squeeze out some cool apps too