CryptoSlate’s evaluation of fuel consumption on the Ethereum (ETH) community primarily based on transactions interacting with non-fungible tokens contracts confirmed that OpenSea’s fuel utilization has declined to virtually zero.
The evaluation included token contract requirements (ERC721 and ERC1155) and different NFT marketplaces like LooksRare, Rarible, and SuperRare.

In accordance with the above chart, general fuel charges in transactions associated to NFTs peaked between October 2021 and January 2022. Throughout this era, OpenSea accounted for roughly 20% of NFT fuel consumption on Ethereum.
The most important NFT market was nonetheless in a position to keep its dominance in fuel consumption till July, when it started to say no quickly –this coincided with when the bear market was negatively impacting NFT gross sales.
OpenSea’s Ethereum NFTs buying and selling quantity has declined for 5 consecutive months, in line with dune analytics information.
Layer2 networks’ fuel consumption crosses $100 billion
In the meantime, Ethereum layer2 networks spent over $100 billion in fuel charges to validate transactions and function their bridges on the mainnet in November, in line with information shared by Paolo Rebuffo.
In November 2022 for the primary time, L2 techniques consumed greater than 100b fuel to validate transactions and function their bridges on L1. 6 months in the past in Could 2022 the 50b fuel threshold was exceeded for the primary time.A doubling time of the fuel consumed by the l2 techniques of 6 months. pic.twitter.com/hgUmKrx9pl
— funnyking.eth zkHODLER 🦦🐛🦈 (@PaoloRebuffo) November 28, 2022
This represented an over 100% progress from the beginning of the 12 months when the fuel charges was $33.2 billion.
In accordance with the information, Optimism was accountable for virtually 50% of the fuel charges, whereas Arbitrum took 30% of the charges. Different networks like dYdX, Loopring, and Starkware accounted for the remainder.