{"id":82334,"date":"2023-07-28T16:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82334"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:22:21","slug":"optimism-overtakes-arbitrum-in-daily-transaction-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/optimism-overtakes-arbitrum-in-daily-transaction-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism overtakes Arbitrum in daily transaction count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, the daily transactions on the Ethereum Layer-2 network <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-optimism-op\">Optimism<\/a> reached 944,000, outpacing Arbitrum.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.44.10-1024x438.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.44.10\" class=\"wp-image-212460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.44.10-1024x438.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.44.10-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.44.10-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.44.10.png 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Daily transaction count on Optimism. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/optimistic.etherscan.io\/chart\/tx\">Etherscan<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">L2<\/a>-the rival protocol on the same day recorded only 658,000 transactions. Optimism surged into the lead for the first time since January 2023.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.46.03-1024x439.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.46.03\" class=\"wp-image-212461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.46.03-1024x439.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.46.03-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.46.03-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-07-28-v-15.46.03.png 1227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Daily transaction count on Arbitrum. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/arbiscan.io\/chart\/tx\">Arbiscan<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Likely, the surge in transaction volume is related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sam-altmans-worldcoin-project-launches-its-own-token\">recently launched project by Sam Altman, Worldcoin (WLD)<\/a>. In May, the startup <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sam-altmans-worldcoin-migrates-from-polygon-to-optimism\">announced<\/a> the migration of its &#8216;gasless wallet&#8217; World App and the decentralized World ID identification protocol from <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-polygon-matic\">Polygon<\/a> to the Optimism ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"forklog\/32140\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, Optimism <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/optimism-team-activates-bedrock-update\">activated<\/a> the Bedrock upgrade. Since then, the average transaction fee on the L2 network <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bedrock-update-halves-fees-on-the-optimism-network\">has fallen by 56%<\/a>, from $0.57 to $0.16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, daily transactions on the Ethereum Layer-2 network Optimism reached 944,000, surpassing Arbitrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1335,1268,1362],"class_list":["post-82334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-arbitrum-arb","tag-on-chain-analysis","tag-optimism-op"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82336,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82334\/revisions\/82336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}