It's wild how quickly both L2 solutions and Ethereum mainnet fees have dropped—even those of us who experienced it don't fully grasp the scale of the shift until you see the numbers laid out.

Remember 2023? We were thrilled getting L2 transactions down to $0.3-0.5 because mainnet gas was absolutely brutal—we're talking three-digit dollar transactions just to move funds around. That was the reality back then.

Now? The gap has completely flipped. Both layers have become significantly cheaper. L2s have pushed costs down to pennies or fractions thereof, while mainnet gas fees have come down substantially too. The infrastructure improvements, scaling solutions, and increased throughput have genuinely reshaped what's possible.

Looking at the data really drives it home. The fee structure we'd have considered a win two years ago would barely register as notable today. That's real progress on-chain.