# Base Layers Reprice Throughput

Major layer-1 networks keep raising throughput and cutting on-chain costs through protocol repricing rather than pushing users to other layers, which repeatedly breaks downstream tooling and compresses the fee advantage that rollups and rival chains have relied on.

- Conviction: 54 / 100 (strengthening)
- 7-day move: +6
- Horizon: Medium term (3-9 months)
- Tracking since: 2026-08-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-08-27T14:00:27.996Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/trends/l1-throughput-repricing-race
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Global

## Recent score history

- 2026-08-27: 54
- 2026-08-28: 59

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Ethereum's Glamsterdam Gas Repricing Would Break Wallets, Indexers and a Subset of Live Contracts (2026-08-28): Replay testing of historical mainnet transactions ahead of Ethereum's Glamsterdam gas repricing found that a subset of live contracts with hardcoded gas assumptions will need higher gas limits, code changes or migration as the block gas limit moves from 60 million toward 200 million. This is the thesis's exact mechanism: a base layer buying throughput through protocol repricing and pushing the breakage cost onto wallets, indexers and already-deployed contracts.
- [confirms] Solana Cuts Block Spacing to About 365 Milliseconds in First Step Toward Sub-Second Finality (2026-08-27): Solana's epoch 1021 averaged 365.4 milliseconds between slots with a 0.077% skip rate, the first step toward sub-second finality, with the next reduction stage unreleased. A base layer is again buying performance at the protocol level rather than pushing users to another layer, compressing the latency advantage rollups and rival chains market against it.

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