Here's How Much ETH Has Been Burned By EIP-1559

More than 70,000 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) coins have been burned or removed from the network’s circulation.

The transaction fee-burning update, EIP-1559, came into effect on August 5.
The EIP-1559 burns ETH that had been used to pay for transactions on the Ethereum network.
Before EIP-1559, the Ethereum network didn’t burn tokens; instead, gas fees went to Ethereum miners, a decentralized network of powerful computers that keep the network running.
The network is used to determine the gas price according to the demand.
EIP-1559 replaced that with a flat fee which costs 32 gwei ($2.1) to process a simple transaction in 3 minutes.
It costs approximately $8.80 to transfer a token on NFT marketplaces.
Ethereum stakers verify transactions by pledging ETH to the Ethereum 2.0 smart contract.
According to data from blockchain analytics firm Nansen, the amount staked on Ethereum surpassed 7 million ETH, worth $22.9 billion.
Staked ETH is locked until an update that will follow the “merge”—when Ethereum 1.0 and 2.0 communicate for the first time.

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