Lately ETH fees have been skyrocketing and I have been paying 50 cents for a normal eth transaction and over $1 for contract functions. Used to be a few pennies at most to get your transaction confirmed quickly.
I've been experiencing a huge increase in transaction fees lately, i think there is congestion causing the network to clog. It might be due to the #DEFI wave that brought about many projects launching their products on eth network.... I heard that the blocksize also got increased by almost 10times and with ethereum 2.0 around the corner to launch, i believe we'll see an improvement real soon
I had to pay $5 ++ for smart contract functions for some stupid thing just to get my ETH unlocked out of a stupid platform I never want to use again. I actually even waited a couple of weeks but the price of gas got actually worse, not better. Ethereum really needs to fix this because Bitcoin fees were a problem for a short time and you knew it does not last but ETH seems to be getting worse and worse.