Offchain Labs Co-founder: Ethereum L2 needs to adopt a dynamic pricing mechanism to achieve scalable expansion

Deep Tide TechFlow message, April 3, according to Cointelegraph, Offchain Labs co-founder Edward Felten said during a keynote at EthCC 2026 that Ethereum layer-2 networks need to introduce a “dynamic pricing” mechanism to support a scale of billions of users and reduce fee volatility during periods of network congestion.

Felten noted that the sharp volatility in current Gas prices is still the main way to fend off network overload, but that volatility poses a significant barrier to mainstream users. He said a dynamic pricing mechanism can carry more transaction throughput at lower Gas prices while avoiding infrastructure overload.

In response, developer Julian Kors pointed out that the main drawback of dynamic pricing is that its predictability is lower than EIP-1559. Status Network project lead Cyprien Grau, meanwhile, believes that although this model improves fee accuracy, it still doesn’t address structural problems: as scaling competition intensifies, Gas fees on layer-2 networks will trend toward zero in the long run, and dynamic pricing is essentially still an income model built on continually depreciating assets.