More discussion on the value accrual problem to ETH asset from Dankrad - an Ethereum Researcher at Ethereum Foundation:
Currently Ethereum is making almost zero fees from both L1 and L2 transactions *because it chooses to*: If we were a company, we would put a reasonable price tag on transactions, and raise it when there is congestion. But instead, we currently charge very close to zero for transactions and DA when there is no congestion, and the result is there is almost zero fees. Looks bad when you want to evaluate Ether based on that!
But here comes the more tricky part: In its current form, it may well be that Ethereum DA does not have much of a moat. It provides very little UX benefits, and only very abstract security benefits that will probably be very closely replicated by alt-DA. Therefore, the moat for DA is low and it's likely Ethereum will never charge significant fees over a long time period.
So what should be the plan? My best guess is:
- scale L1 to make sure that integration with Ethereum remains attractive
- scale DA to make sure that we lower the incentives for alt-DA (this doesn't have to mean lower fees. We can just charge a fee!)
- work on shorter block times, single-slot L2 interop etc. to maximize value of Ethereum DA