# Ethereum Network Revenue: Daily Fees, Tips and Burn

> Ethereum network revenue by day: fees users pay, split into the burned base fee, priority fees to validators and blob fees, in ETH and USD with receipts.

Markdown copy of https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/ethereum-network-revenue

**Question:** How much do users pay in fees on Ethereum per day, and how much of it is burned?

- Kind: Dashboard in Voltfin Vantage
- Topic: [Ethereum](https://voltfincrypto.com/topics/ethereum)
- Chains: Ethereum
- Status: Planned. The data is not published yet, so this page states no figure; each figure will open its receipt when it is.

Ethereum's revenue is what its users pay to get transactions and blobs into blocks. It has two parts: the base fee, which the protocol burns, removing it from supply rather than paying it to anyone, and the priority fees paid to the validators who propose blocks. This dashboard adds up both, plus blob fees, every day, in ETH and in USD.

Read the split to see who receives what: burned fees reduce supply, tips reward validators and blob fees show what rollups pay for data. Over time, the series shows how much of Ethereum's fee income comes from mainnet activity and how much from layer 2s posting their data.

## Blueprint

### Daily

Fees for the latest complete day and how they split.

- **Fees paid, latest day** (ETH): Total fees users paid on the latest complete day: base fees, tips and blob fees.
- **Burned, latest day** (ETH): Base fees and blob fees burned on the latest complete day.
- **Tips to proposers, latest day** (ETH): Priority fees paid to block fee recipients on the latest complete day.
- **Share burned** (%): Burned fees as a share of all fees users paid on the latest complete day.
- **Fees by day and recipient** (ETH): Fees per day over the selected period, split into burned base fees, burned blob fees and tips to proposers.

### Trend

Fees over time, blob fees and builder payments beside them.

- **Fees, last 30 days** (ETH): Total fees users paid over the last 30 days, with the change against the 30 days before.
- **Blob share of fees** (%): Blob fees as a share of all fees over the last 30 days: what layer 2 data adds to the total.
- **Builder payments to proposers** (ETH): What builders paid proposers per day through MEV-Boost, shown beside fees and never added to them.
- **Fees in USD by day** (USD): Total fees per day in USD at each day's oracle price over the selected period, with the burned part drawn beneath.

Filters: Period (Last 30 days, 90 days, a year or since the Merge); Unit (ETH, or USD at each day's oracle price).

## How it will be measured

- Burned fees are base_fee_per_gas times gas_used for every block, from the block headers.
- Tips are the effective gas price minus the base fee, times gas used, for every transaction, from receipts; they are paid to each block's fee recipient.
- Blob fees are blob gas used times the blob base fee derived from excess_blob_gas, and are burned like the base fee.
- Payments from block builders to proposers through MEV-Boost are shown apart and never added to fees, because users do not pay them through the protocol's fee fields.
- USD values use the Chainlink ETH/USD feed at each day's last block; every figure names its blocks and reads as its receipt.

## Data it needs

- `chain_fees_daily` (to build): Fees paid per chain per day in the native token: base fee and priority fee percentiles, total fees, and the share burned where the chain burns fees.
- `blob_usage_daily` (to build): EIP-4844 blobs posted per day, blob gas used, blob base fee, and the rollup that posted them.
- `mev_daily` (to build): Blocks by builder, MEV-Boost relay share, and detected sandwich attacks with the value taken from users, per day.
- `native_prices_daily` (to build): Reference prices of major assets read from on-chain oracle feeds (Chainlink latestRoundData) at each day's last block, with each round's update time.
- Source: Block headers: base_fee_per_gas, gas_used, blob_gas_used and excess_blob_gas
- Source: Transaction receipts: effective_gas_price and gas_used, for tips
- Source: The last transaction of builder-made blocks, from the builder's fee recipient to the proposer's
- Source: Chainlink ETH/USD latestRoundData() at each day's last block

## Questions

### What is Ethereum's network revenue?

It is the total fees users pay to have transactions and blobs included. The base fee and blob fees are burned, and the priority fee goes to the block proposer. Some definitions also count MEV payments to validators; this dashboard shows those separately.

### Is burned ETH revenue?

Burned fees are paid by users but received by no one: they leave the supply. Many analysts count them as revenue to ETH holders as a group, because a smaller supply leaves each remaining ETH a larger share. The dashboard keeps burn and tips apart so either reading is possible.

### Why do Ethereum fees change so much?

Fees follow demand for block space. Busy markets, popular mints and liquidations push the base fee up, while more gas per block and activity moving to layer 2s push it down. Blob fees follow a separate market, set by how much data rollups post.

### How do blob fees fit in?

Rollups pay blob fees to post their transaction data to Ethereum. The blob base fee rises when blocks carry more blobs than the target and falls when they carry fewer, and it is burned. It shows what layer 2s pay Ethereum for data, apart from what mainnet users pay.

### Are MEV payments included?

No. When a block is built through MEV-Boost, the builder pays the proposer, usually in the block's last transaction. That value comes from builders and searchers rather than from users' fee fields, so it is shown as its own series and left out of the totals.

## Glossary

- **Priority fee**: The tip a transaction adds on top of the base fee, paid to the block's proposer or its builder.
- **Fee recipient**: The address named in a block to receive its priority fees, set by the proposer or by the block's builder.
- **MEV-Boost**: Software that lets validators take blocks from outside builders through relays, paid by a transfer in the block.

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- [Blockchain Fees by Chain: Daily Totals](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/blockchain-fees-by-chain)
- [Ethereum Block Builders: Market Share of Blocks](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/ethereum-block-builders)
- [Solana vs Ethereum: Fees, Activity and Revenue](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/solana-vs-ethereum)
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