- Elevated L2 adoption has led to a bounce in transaction rely throughout Ethereum Mainnet and main optimistic rollups.
- Because of the launch of pal.tech, Base outperformed Optimism and Arbitrum final week.
The transaction numbers between Ethereum [ETH] Mainnet and main optimistic rollups not too long ago hit their second-highest worth ever, IntoTheBlock famous in an 18 August tweet.
Transaction numbers between Ethereum Mainnet & main optimistic rollups simply hit their 2nd highest worth ever! The overall variety of transactions is now roughly 3x increased than through the bull market peak #ETH #L2 pic.twitter.com/tV5e6ZIftJ
— IntoTheBlock (@intotheblock) August 18, 2023
Based on the on-chain knowledge supplier, the overall variety of transactions between Ethereum, Optimism [OP], Arbitrum [ARB], and newcomer Base surged to roughly thrice the extent noticed “through the bull market peak.”
Base guidelines over Optimism and Arbitrum
Lower than a month previous, elevated exercise on Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) community Base within the final week pushed its common every day transactions rely above that of Optimism and Arbitrum, knowledge from TheBlock knowledge dashboard revealed.
On-chain evaluation of every day transaction counts throughout the three networks over a 7-day shifting common confirmed that Base’s common every day transactions on 15 August totaled 557,140. Optimism trailed behind with 597,000, whereas Arbitrum got here in third place with a rely of 576,000.
Supply: TheBlock
By way of new every day distinctive addresses, Base outperformed Optimism and Arbitrum throughout the first six days of its launch. Nevertheless, with its hype plummeting, this metric has begun a descent.
As of 17 August, Base noticed the creation of 24,000 new addresses, whereas Optimism and Arbitrum recorded 32,000 and 29,000, respectively.
Supply: TheBlock
The surge in Base’s utilization final week was because of the launch of pal.tech on the L2 community. pal.tech lets customers purchase and promote tokenized shares of crypto personalities. Based on knowledge from Dune Analytics, pal.tech has processed over 450,000 transactions from 35,000 distinctive customers because it launched.
As of this writing, the cumulative rely of customers on Base stood at 755,471, whereas the overall rely of transactions accomplished to date rested above 10 million.
Supply: Dune Analytics
Relating to the overall worth of belongings despatched to the community, knowledge from Dune Analytics confirmed that $236.16 million has been bridged to date. Since its launch, $144 million price of Ether [ETH] tokens have been bridged to Base. This represents 61% of all belongings on the L2 community.
The L2 race continues
The adoption of L2 scaling options has elevated considerably this 12 months, and Optimism and Arbitrum have seen a major bounce in community exercise because of this.
As of 18 August, Optimism had 116,000 lively addresses and 592,000 transactions, whereas Arbitrum recorded 135,000 lively addresses and 595,000 transactions.
The warfare is on between @optimismFND and @arbitrum 🔥
Over the previous 6 months, Optimism’s lively addresses and every day transactions have been steadily rising
Yesterday Optimism hit 116k lively addresses and 592k txs, in comparison with Arbitrum’s 135k lively addresses and 595k txs pic.twitter.com/yHU8cyQF6X
— Nansen 🧭 (@nansen_ai) August 17, 2023
By way of whole worth locked (TVL), Arbitrum’s $6 billion represents 56% of all belongings locked throughout the L2 ecosystem. Within the second place, Optimism holds $3 billion in TVL, knowledge from L2Beat confirmed.
Supply: L2Beat
