On January 20th, Polynomial co-founder Gautham Santhosh warned that the continued demand for Ethereum Layer 2 is rapidly depleting the mainnet blob capacity. Currently, 55% of the blob is occupied by two chains, BASE and World Chain. Since November last year, the blob base fee has exceeded $50 several times, resulting in a significant increase in user transaction costs. The upcoming Pectra upgrade, which will go live in March, will increase the per-block blob limit to 9, but Santhosh believes that this will only temporarily alleviate the problem. Long-term scaling still requires more solutions.