18.36M Ethereum addresses joined the network in 2021

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New information reveals that the Ethereum community gained 18.36 million addresses with a stability better than zero in 2021. That works out to an astonishing progress price of 1.53 million new addresses per 30 days, however competitors is changing into more and more fierce for market share.

Blockchain intelligence agency IntoTheBlock shared its findings about Ethereum in a Feb. 15 tweet.

Regardless of Ether (ETH) reaching two new all-time highs in value in 2021, the expansion price of recent addresses was not notably correlated with value spikes. The community has gained about 10 million addresses since October.

Whereas total numbers are up, there, there was a lower within the proportion of lively addresses on the community. General, lively addresses have been 1.05% of all addresses on Jan. 1 2021, peaked at 1.66% on April 25 however havesince fallen to 0.86% as of Feb. 15. 

The variety of whales holding greater than 1,000 ETH has additionally been declining because the begin of 2021. On-chain analytics agency Glassnode reported on Feb. 13 that whale wallets had reached a 4-year low of 6,226.

The common every day quantity of transactions has stagnated round 1.2 million because the center of  December, in response to Ethereum statistics aggregator Ycharts. Excessive gasoline charges and options within the type of cheaper and infrequently sooner sidechains and Layer-2 options on Ethereum could also be components. This was famous as a motive in Cointelegraph Journal with Sameep Singhania for why he chose to build Quickswap on Polygon.

Following the large spike in utilization final Could, the Polygon (MATIC) sidechain has averaged greater than double the every day transaction quantity of Ethereum. Polygon at present enjoys about 3 million transactions per day.

Associated: Polygon and Cere network to launch Web3 media platform, DaVinci

Ethereum remains to be the main sensible contract platform by complete worth locked (TVL) within the ecosystem. On-chain statistics platform Defi Llama signifies that Ethereum at present has $124.24 billion in TVL, which vastly outstrips runner up Terra (LUNA) with $15.04 billion.