The crypto community often refers to ETH as ultrasound money due to its underlying economic properties. Specifically, in EIP-1559, the base gas fee of every transaction is burned. As a result, if gas fees are high and there is significant network demand, ETH can become a deflationary asset (more ETH is burned than mined). Ultrasound is a homage to the bat and sonar emojis used by the crypto community symbolizing ETH as ultrasound money and is composed of EIP-1559 source code from go-ethereum.