Arbitrum keeps its dominance in the layer 2 landscape as it continues to grow in 2023. ^^as the number of unique addresses on Arbitrum reaches an all-time high.
Layer 2 Network Arbitrum Exceeds Ethereum in Daily Transactions
On February 21, layer 2 network Arbitrum outranked Ethereum in daily transactions, once again underlining Arbitrum’s dominance as the leading layer 2 rollup. The number of daily transactions on the Arbitrum, the fourth-largest blockchain overall in terms of total value locked (TVL), significantly increased from 159,919 in daily transactions on January 1 to over 1,103,398 on February 22, representing a roughly 590% increase in less than two months, according to block explorer Arbiscan.
For exaple, the number of daily transactions on Ethereum increased a meager 46% in the same period to 1,084,290, per Etherscan. In addition the number of unique addresses on Аrbitrum’s network has reached about 2.95 million addresses, which makes it an all-time high number since company’s establishment. TVL aggregator DeFiLlama showed that Arbitrum’s TVL jumped 81% since January 1 to roughly $1.85 billion.
Аrbitrum’s outranking Ethereum follows GMX, a decentralized perpetual exchange native to Аrbitrum, overtaking Ethereum in daily fees last week. The rapidly growing layer 2 ecosystem has also seen many financial applications emerge like Camelot, Vela Exchange and Radiant Capital. According to Nansen data, all these applications have seen their users and transactions increase by over 100% in the past 24 hours.
But despite increasing transactions and addresses, Аrbitrum is still behind Ethereum in terms of network fees. According to cryptofees.info, Ethereum’s one-day fees are about $6.7 million, while Аrbitrum’s one-day fees sit at roughly $154,000, which is less than 2.3% of Ethereum’s network fees for the day. Vice president of digital asset strategy at Fundstrat Global Advisors Walter Teng says that increased activity on Аrbitrum may be caused by users hoping and speculating about a potential Аrbitrum airdrop, despite the lack of announcements from Аrbitrum developers about token drop.
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