Soaring growth of Ethereum layer-2 networks set to continue in 2023
Leading layer-2 networks on Ethereum have seen a surge in daily active users and fees recently. Ethereum layer-2 networks have gone through an explosive growth phase over the past couple of months, a trend that is set to continue in 2023. According to recent data, the leading layer-2 networks have seen an increase in daily active users thathas translated into a growth in fees for the respective ecosystems.
According to analytics provider Token Terminal, Polygon leads the pack with 313,457 daily active users as of Jan. 17, a metric that spiked to over 600,000 daily active users earlier in January. That’s a 30% increase in activity since the beginning of October, resulting in nearly $55,000 worth of daily fees for Polygon.
Optimism has seen even faster growth, with a 190% gain in daily active users over the past three months. This resulted in daily network fees of $119,475, a gain of almost 140% since the beginning of the year. Arbitrum One currently has 41,694 daily active users, an increase of around 40% over the past three months. Daily fees on the network are just over $40,000, according to the data.
Meanwhile, L2 ecosystem analytics platform L2beat states that Arbitrum has a market share of 52% in terms of total value locked (TVL), which is currently at $2.55 billion. Aribtrum has seen a 9% increase in TVL over the past week.
Optimism, the second-largest L2 network, has a TVL of $1.46 billion, giving it a market share of 30%. Its collateral locked has surged by 15% over the past seven days. The two together account for more than 80% of all the collateral locked in layer-2 platforms. There has been an increase of almost 10% in TVL for all L2s over the past week, pushing the total TVL up to $4.89 billion. However, that figure is still down 34% since its peak in April. Nevertheless, this decline is less than half of the retreat DeFi TVL has made since its all-time high. DeFi collateral has declined by 75% since December 2021, according to DeFiLlama, suggesting that there is greater demand and momentum for layer-2 networks at the moment.
Top Cryptocurrencies with Price Predictions
| # | Crypto | Prediction | Accuracy | CVIX | Price | 24h | 7d | Market Cap | 7d price change | |
| 1 |  BTC |
Bitcoin predictions | 91.2% | 10 | $26 805.87 | -1.40% | 2.56% | $519 755 870 988 |  |
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| 2 |  ETH |
Ethereum predictions | 94.4% | 5 | $1 854.67 | -0.84% | 4.20% | $223 015 422 400 |  |
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| 3 |  USDT |
Tether predictions | 96% | 1 | $1.000096 | -0.02% | 0.03% | $83 230 335 223 |  |
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| 4 |  BNB |
Binance Coin predictions | 95.6% | 1 | $303.98 | -1.00% | -0.22% | $47 377 323 224 |  |
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| 5 |  USDC |
USD Coin predictions | 94.4% | 1 | $0.999905 | -0.01% | 0% | $28 877 501 003 |  |
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| 6 |  XRP |
XRP predictions | 76.8% | 37 | $0.505541 | -0.88% | 12.34% | $26 279 740 617 |  |
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| 7 |  ADA |
Cardano predictions | 90% | 10 | $0.363936 | -3.17% | 2.01% | $12 695 439 313 |  |
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| 8 |  STETH |
Lido stETH predictions | 96% | 1 | $2 941.39 | -0.40% | -3.32% | $10 258 752 564 |  |
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| 9 |  DOGE |
Dogecoin predictions | 84.8% | 17 | $0.071531 | -0.10% | 1.71% | $9 984 428 154 |  |
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| 10 |  MATIC |
Polygon predictions | 81.2% | 35 | $0.889823 | 0.05% | 1.41% | $8 257 084 812 |  |
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| 11 |  SOL |
Solana predictions | 79.6% | 29 | $20.61 | -0.54% | 6.81% | $8 175 590 615 |  |
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| 12 |  WTRX |
Wrapped TRON predictions | 81.2% | 37 | $0.074658 | -1.32% | -3.61% | $7 590 887 095 |  |
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| 13 |  LTC |
Litecoin predictions | 80.4% | 37 | $92.37 | 3.38% | 9.85% | $6 747 710 768 |  |
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| 14 |  TRX |
TRON predictions | 81.6% | 35 | $0.074386 | -1.89% | -3.97% | $6 711 481 387 |  |
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| 15 |  DOT |
Polkadot predictions | 90% | 10 | $5.22 | -2.17% | -0.51% | $6 213 935 139 |  |
