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

Deep Tide TechFlow message. On April 3, according to Cointelegraph, Edward Felten, co-founder of Offchain Labs, said in 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 current practice of sharply fluctuating Gas prices is still the main way to defend against network overload, but this volatility poses a significant obstacle for mainstream users. He said that 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 that of EIP-1559. Cyprien Grau, head of the Status Network project, believes that while this model improves fee accuracy, it still does not solve structural problems— as expansion-related competition intensifies, layer-2 Gas fees will tend toward zero over the long term, and dynamic pricing is fundamentally still a revenue model built on continuously depreciating assets.