Ethereum's Median Gas Fee Surges to 12-Month High as PEPE Frenzy Grips Market

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Executing transactions on Ethereum has become costly amid frenzied trading in the frog-themed $PEPE token. reports godbole17.

The daily median gas price, or transaction cost, hit a 12-month high of 87 gwei early this week. The value has increased more than 50% since the launch of the PEPE token on April 18, according to pseudonymous analyst @hildobby's Ethereum Gas tracker on Dune Analytics. At one point on Monday, the one-minute median gas price surged well past 150 gwei.

The increase represents strong demand for the Ethereum network, mainly from meme-coin traders, according to analytics firm CoinMetrics. "As BTC births a nascent memecoin scene, the ETH ecosystem continues to crank out multi-million dollar altcoins," CoinMetrics said in a weekly note sent to subscribers on Thursday referring to bitcoin and ether by their acronyms."ERC-20 heavyweight PEPE soared +300% over the weekend, snagging a near-$600M fully-diluted valuation.

PEPE surpassed the $500 million mark in market capitalization within three weeks of the launch. Similar frenzied activity has been seen other smaller coins. For instance, CHAD and 4TOKEN have rallied 450% and 250% in one week, while DINO has risen 500% in two weeks.

 

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