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ETHEREUM'S FUSAKA UPGRADE WILL GO LIVE TODAY 🚨 And most people still don’t understand how big this is for $ETH. The last major upgrade (Pectra) pushed ETH up 50% in one week and Fusaka is a much bigger upgrade than Pectra. Ethereum has one major problem right now: L2 data congestion. Rollups like Base, Arbitrum, OP and zkSync all push their data back to Ethereum, but today every node must download the entire blob file to verify it. This slows the network, increases bandwidth use, and keeps L2 fees higher than they should be. Fusaka fixes this in a very simple way. First, block capacity increases from 45M → 150M gas. This instantly gives Ethereum almost 3× more room for transactions, smart contracts, and rollup data. More room means more activity, and more activity means more ETH burned. Second, Fusaka adds PeerDAS. Instead of downloading full blob files, nodes now check small random pieces. This reduces load on nodes, lowers costs for rollups, and makes Ethereum handle far more data without slowing down. Third, Fusaka adds Verkle Trees, which make Ethereum’s state smaller and easier to verify. This means nodes sync faster, storage becomes lighter, and Ethereum becomes easier to operate long-term. What does this mean for everyday users? Faster confirmations. More stable gas fees. Cheaper L2 transactions. Less congestion during busy hours. Everything simply feels smoother without users changing anything. For L2s, the impact is even larger. Rollups depend on blob space. Fusaka increases that space and reduces verification costs at the same time. This lets L2s scale far faster, which means more transactions, more activity, and more ETH being used. And every L2 transaction eventually settles on Ethereum, which burns ETH. More rollup activity → more settlement → more burn → stronger ETH economics. This is why Fusaka is not just a performance upgrade. It directly strengthens Ethereum’s demand, usage, and fee burn model. And the price part matters too. When Pectra launched, ETH pumped 50% in a week, even though Pectra was smaller and focused on wallets and staking. Fusaka increases capacity, reduces costs, improves data handling, and boosts the burn rate. It is a deeper, more meaningful upgrade. Ethereum becomes faster, cheaper, lighter, and more scalable starting today and the market still hasn’t priced in how big this is for ETH.