Anyone have insights to share on this phenomena?

tx fees collected on L2's shows Base significantly topping the charts.

L1 gas fees, however, shows Base riding a very low and steady 'baseline'...

What's the story here? Or what am I not seeing that explains this? How is Base so much more (and consistently) efficient at rolling up on mainnet?

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Ahh that makes so much sense. Thank you, that actually clarified it even more for me.

there's also one more obvious detail I should note for the sake of the graph – blob fees are relatively low at the moment, so the cost per transaction decreases as more transactions are handled, and given base is one of the most used L2s, that essentially flatlines their gas used on L1 per L2 tx. Other L2s with significantly more variable but lower usage also using blobs (OP, for example) will register as more costly on the graph.