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Scroll users pay excess transaction fees, Layer 1 data costs surge. 🌀 Scroll major "car crash" scene: users overpaid by $50k, L1 fees skyrocketed by 1280 times!

Everyone, who understands! The Ethereum L2 star project Scroll recently caused an epic blunder — the team accidentally (or out of brain fart) set the L1 data fee multiplier to the maximum 1280 times, causing many users to unknowingly pay over $50k in excess fees!

Originally, everyone used L2 for cheaper and faster transactions, but this time it turned into a reverse "wool pulling" experience: you think you're transferring a few cents on Scroll, but behind the scenes, it silently deducts dozens or hundreds of dollars — the wallet shows a fee as if joking, and the actual bill is straight into "hell mode."

Why did this happen? Simply put, the "meter" responsible for calculating L1 data fees on Scroll was dialed up too high.
L2 transactions are supposed to bundle data back to Ethereum L1 for notarization, normally charging a small "storage fee" based on data size. But this time, due to a parameter error, a $1 fee was charged as 1280 units, making all users the unwitting victims.

Even more hilarious:
Many users completed transactions without noticing, until the on-chain data was revealed, and they were stunned.
The project team took a long time to respond, and the community exploded first: "This L2 is more expensive than L1, what's the point?"
$50k is not a small amount — enough to buy several Bitcoin, enough for the entire community to drink coffee for a year.
Clearly a project operation mistake, but users paid the price first, with a "I made the mistake, you pay" attitude.

Currently, the project team has urgently fixed the issue and promised refunds, but this incident also exposed that L2, which seems "low-cost," actually relies entirely on L1 data fees. Once the parameters go wrong, users suffer.

All I can say is: blockchain is no small matter. A tiny decimal point or a coefficient mismatch can turn the money you saved into a sky-high bill.