According to "The Block" report, the number of independent depositors of Ethereum's second-layer rollup solutions (especially Optimistic and ZK Rollups) has reached a yearly low, with only 34,920 in the past week, a 33% decrease compared to the previous week, and This is in stark contrast to more than 250,000 unique depositors in a single week in mid-April.
Number of unique depositors on Ethereum cross-chain bridge, source: The Block
The decline in L2 depositors may be attributed to a variety of factors, including shifts in user preferences, the ecosystem’s lackluster growth in decentralized applications (dApps), and users continuing to use Arbitrum, Optimism, ZKSync, and Starknet following their airdrops The motivation for Rollups is insufficient, and the token airdrops for these projects have all occurred within the past two years.
With the recent decline in independent depositors, the total value locked (TVL) of Ethereum’s second-layer rollups has also seen a corresponding decline.
Towards the beginning of June, Rollups had 36,100 unique depositors in a week, which was the lowest since October 2022. It is worth noting that the total TVL of Optimistic rollups and ZK rollups during this period hit a record of $25.7 billion. An all-time high, but total TVL has dropped more than 20% since then to just over $20.5 billion at press time.
Among them, the total TVL decrease of ZK rollups is higher than that of Optimistic rollups. This may be due to the fact that depositor numbers for Starknet and ZKSync dropped following token airdrops in recent months. The decline in ZK rollups can further be explained by the surge in independent withdrawals in recent weeks. Last week alone, ZK rollups had over 20,000 unique withdrawals. While this number is substantial, it is significantly lower than the previous two weeks.
Although TVL on the Ethereum L2 network has declined recently, it has still grown this year, with TVL on the L2 chain surging 74.77%, from $22.6 billion to $39.5 billion.
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