The State of Ethereum Scaling

As Ethereum passes the milestone of a quarter of a billion unique addresses, daily gas used has remained over 100 million for more than a year, the number of ENS names registered approaches 2.6 million and market cap once again flirts with $250 billion, its worth taking a step back to look at the numerous scaling solutions that are enabling this growth without also triggering the sky-high transaction fees the network has seen during several periods of high blockspace demand. How Ethereum would scale was a key issue from the time the network’s launch in 2015, and by 2017 its inventor Vitalik Buterin was discussing its status in interviews, such…