ChainCatcher message, the Rollup-as-a-service project Conduit announced on social media that it has activated the Ecotone network upgrade on 9 mainnet OP Stack chains, with current transaction fees below $0.001.

ChainCatcher message, OP Labs officially stated that 4844 will go live on OP Chains in sync with the Ecotone upgrade on March 14 at 00:00:01 UTC, provided that the upgrade proposal is approved by Optimism. Node operators need to take measures to prepare for the upgrade. Once the basic Ecotone configuration is set up, nodes will need to configure the new Beacon endpoint. This is because shortly after Ecotone is activated, batch transactions will be sent as 4844 blobs, and the blobs can only be retrieved from the Beacon node.

ChainCatcher news, Base developer Roberto Bayardo stated that Base and OP Labs have activated the Ecotone hard fork on their respective Goerli development networks and have enabled the functionality to publish batch transactions via EIP-4844 blobs today.