The variety of energetic customers inside Ethereum’s Layer 2 ecosystem is surging to new all-time highs.

Ethereum L2s hosted exercise from almost  3.5 million distinctive wallets between Feb. 26 and March 3, in keeping with information from GrowThePie. The variety of weekly energetic Layer 2 customers has now grown 788% since opening 2023 at 386,393.

The milestone marked the third week ever that Layer 2s hosted greater than 3 million energetic customers, beating out the earlier week’s file of three.12 million.

Knowledge from L2beat additionally reveals the mixed throughput of Layer 2s trending between 107.5 transactions per second (TPS) and 125.6 TPS over the identical interval — marking the strongest exercise on file excluding the present all-time excessive of 152 TPS and Dec. 16 and 131.9 TPS on Feb. 25.

For comparability, the Ethereum mainnet hosted between 13.7 TPS and 14.3 TPS.

The unprecedented exercise highlights the success of Ethereum’s rollup-centric  scaling roadmap, which has  prioritized facilitating excessive throughput and low cost transactions on Layer 2 as a substitute of attempting to realize such on Ethereum’s mainnet base layer.

However the spike in Layer 2 transactions has been accompanied by rising charges, that are up by between 100% and 320% throughout the 5 most energetic L2s.

Nonetheless, Ethereum’s highly-anticipated  Dencun improve, which is scheduled to go stay on March 13, is predicted to drive a big discount within the prices of transacting on Layer 2 by changing calldata with Binary Massive Objects (blobs). Merchants punting on a Polymarket prediction market are at the moment  betting that blobs will probably be greater than 98% cheaper to supply than calldata.

ZkSync Period tops L2 rankings amid airdrop hypothesis

ZkSync Period continued to rank as the highest by energetic customers, internet hosting a file of 948,400 distinctive wallets final week. Arbitrum got here second with 580,360 customers, adopted by Linea with 417,500, and OP Mainnet with 284,900.

Notably, ZkSync was the only real L2 to host a higher variety of wallets than have been energetic throughout a number of Layer 2s, with 944,300 customers transacting on a couple of Layer 2. Nonetheless, the community’s stats are doubtless bolstered by  airdrop opportunists in search of to maximise their exercise throughout the ZkSync ecosystem in a bid to qualify for any future token drops from the challenge.

Linea, the rollup from Consensys, the outstanding Ethereum software program developer, ranks second by transaction quantity after posting a file above 1.12 million alongside a brand new excessive for energetic customers of almost  386,000 on March 2. Exercise on Linea has skyrocketed greater than 800% since opening February at 123,900 every day transactions.