CoinVoice recently learned that on October 9, according to the Ethereum Status Report for the third quarter of 2023 released by crypto analysis company Messari, L2 transactions accounted for 61% of all Ethereum transactions in the third quarter. This growth mainly came from the launch of the Base mainnet and the popularity of the decentralized social protocol friend.tech. In a short period of time at the end of this quarter, the transaction volume of Base alone exceeded that of the Ethereum mainnet.
Optimism also saw significant growth in the quarter, with a 40% increase in trading volume. Base and Optimism appear to have "cannibalized" some of Arbitrum's activity, with its trading volume falling 36%. Despite this, Arbitrum remains the largest L2, with an average daily trading volume of 600,000 transactions, while Optimism and Base have a daily trading volume of about 400,000 transactions. [Original link]
