{"id":60249,"date":"2026-01-23T10:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/ethereum-mainnet-daily-active-addresses-surpass-all-layer-2s\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:02:38","slug":"ethereum-mainnet-daily-active-addresses-surpass-all-layer-2s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/ethereum-mainnet-daily-active-addresses-surpass-all-layer-2s\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum mainnet daily active addresses surpass all layer-2s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Network activity on the Ethereum mainnet has now surpassed that on layer-2 scaling blockchains as gas fees remain low, though it may not all be organic users.<\/p>\n

Token Terminal said<\/a> on Thursday that there has been a \u201creturn to mainnet,\u201d with daily active addresses on Ethereum outranking all leading layer-2s.<\/p>\n

A recent spike<\/a> in active addresses closed in on 1 million per day, with Etherscan showing<\/a> that active addresses surged to around 1.3 million on Jan. 16 but have since settled to around 945,000 daily active addresses.<\/p>\n

The figure is higher than all layer-2 blockchains, including the popular networks Arbitrum One, Base Chain and OP Mainnet. The total value secured across all layer-2s currently stands at $45 billion, down 17% over the past 12 months, according<\/a> to L2Beat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ethereum<\/a> network activity has surged this month following the Fusaka upgrade in December, which dramatically reduced gas fees. However, it might not all be from genuine users.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ethereum L1 surpasses all L2 networks for daily active addresses. Source: <\/em>Token Terminal<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Address poisoning attacks spike<\/h2>\n

Security researcher Andrey Sergeenkov said on Monday<\/a> that the spike in network activity could be attributed in part to dusting or address poisoning attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Address poisoning involves scammers sending small transactions from wallet addresses that resemble legitimate ones, duping users into copying the wrong address when making a transaction.<\/p>\n

This has been made viable economically by the slump in network fees, making it cheaper to spam the network.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Related: <\/strong><\/em>Efforts to bulletproof Ethereum are paying off in user metrics<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s reasonable to conclude that the recent spike in Ethereum network activity is being materially driven by address poisoning campaigns,\u201d analysts at blockchain security firm Cyvers told Cointelegraph on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n