Base has topped the Ethereum layer-2 leaderboards by transaction count and has been the most profitable Ethereum scaler for three consecutive months.
The total value locked (TVL) on the Ethereum layer-2 network Base has surpassed $8 billion days after overtaking Optimism’s OP Mainnet.
L2Beat data shows that its TVL as of June 10 is $8.05 billion, including $2.14 billion of canonically bridged value — assets locked on Ethereum to be represented on Base — and $5.92 billion in natively minted assets.
The Coinbase-supported chain surpassed OP Mainnet as the largest chain within the Superchain ecosystem last week and is now the second-largest Ethereum scaler in TVL, trailing Arbitrum One’s $18.27 billion.
Base notched the $1 billion TVL mark on Feb. 27, about seven months after it launched in August 2023. But it’s been on a tear since then, increasing eig over the last 104 days
It also leads all Ethereum layer 2s by transactions per second over the last month at 30.36 — beating out Arbitrum One at 23.52, according to L2BEAT. Base processed 64.86 million transactions over the last 30 days.
Base is raking in the profits
Base has cashed in the most on-chain profits over the last three months, including a record $16.9 million for the chain in March, according to a Dune Analytics dashboard by “niftytable.”
Base’s on-chain profits fell 58.6% to $6.98 million in May but still leads the next most profitable Ethereum layer 2, OP Mainnet, which recorded $1.57 million in profits last month.
Much of these profits were captured from the recent memecoin mania in the first few months of 2024.
However, Base’s popularity with memecoins also attracted scammers, and as a result, the network saw an 18-fold increase in funds stolen from phishing scams from January to March.
Ethereum layer-2 scaling networks are expected to notch a combined $1 trillion market cap by 2023, according to analysts at asset manager VanEck.
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