I got the below snippet from the article. Can someone please tell me how Ethereum actually makes money I see that they have all these fancy upgrades to reduce gas fees. It seems to me, There is a lot of traffic but Ethereum is not making any money or very little money on the transactions.
From article:
The Ethereum blockchain recorded its strongest operational year in history in 2025, processing record transaction volumes and securing the vast majority of the DeFi market.
However, the crypto asset that powers the network failed to mirror that growth, posting double-digit losses for the year.
According to CryptoSlate's data, ETH is trading down 10% year-to-date at under $3000. Its performance against Bitcoin, the flagship digital asset, has also lagged, with the ETH/BTC ratio falling 6% since the start of the year.
This divergence highlights a fundamental shift in the economics of the world’s most widely used commercial blockchain.
While network utility has soared, technical upgrades designed to lower costs for users have significantly reduced the revenue flowing to the core network, decoupling the price of Ether from the activity on its rails
Ethereum lost over $100 million in fees this year, and one corporate giant kept the profit
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How are you saying Eth made very little money? Compared to the amount of traffic on Eth currently than in the past you can say they aren’t making as much per a transaction but this was the idea. Everyone always complained of Eth gas fees, and no one would use Eth because of the cost.
Well the upgrade changed that in order to get more traffic on Eth by lowering gas fees. So there’s many new L2 s built on Eth and more continuing to grow as the tech is evolving in today’s time. JP Morgan for example built their own blockchain, basically their own coin but it’s built on ethereum. They still need ethereum network to send. The idea behind lower fees is to steer quantity at the cost of less in transactions. Would you rather $1 million passing on your network at 3% in revenue or $1 trillion passing at 1.7%?