# Ethereum Scales Its Base Layer

Successive Ethereum forks that raise base-layer throughput will keep pulling activity and fee revenue from general-purpose rollups back to layer one, compressing the economic case for rollups that do not offer something the base layer cannot.

- Conviction: 32 / 100 (weakening)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-10-12T14:07:13.213Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/trends/ethereum-l1-scaling-reprices-rollups
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Global

## Recent score history

- 2026-10-11: 34
- 2026-10-12: 32

## Recent evidence

- [contradicts] Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade goes live on Sepolia with a 200 million gas ceiling that early blocks leave half empty (2026-10-08): Sampled Glamsterdam blocks on Sepolia used less than half of the new 200M gas budget. Capacity is arriving ahead of demand, which weakens the claim that more L1 throughput will by itself pull activity and fees back from rollups. Testnet usage is a weak proxy, though.