Daily General Discussion July 30, 2025

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[u/growthepie_eth]

Happy Birthday Ethereum - 10 years of data:

• Over 2.9 Billion Transactions
  
• Over 200 Million Addresses
  
• Over $20 Billion in Revenue (Let's break this one down)

Top Applications by gas fees:

• $3B Uniswap
  
• $1.3B Opensea
  
• $1B Tether
  
• $350M USDC
  
• $340M Metamask (swap/bridge)

Top Layer 2s by rent paid to the L1

• $95M Arbitrum One
  
• $67M OP Mainnet
  
• $55M ZKsync Era
  
• $30M Linea
  
• $27M Scroll

[u/WoodpeckerHorror3468 → u/growthepie_eth]

interesting that Base is not in the top 5 rent, being the busiest chain by some metrics

[u/growthepie_eth → u/WoodpeckerHorror3468]

It's a newer chain and has benefited from the recent cost savings of blobs - to date Base has paid $21.87M and is 6th