Ethereum by the Numbers — The Year of 2019

Check out the network activity, Ethereum statistics, DeFi analytics, and more facts and figures from the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem throughout 2019.

Year over year, the Ethereum ecosystem continues to expand and evolve. This year brought a new wave of innovation and blockchain growth. The Ethereum network improved via both network upgrades and increased developer mindshare. DeFi brought hundreds of millions of dollars in value into the Ethereum ecosystem while over 520 new decentralized applications were created throughout the course of the year. Let’s take a minute to analytically reflect on this past year while gaining optimism for the future years to come.

Network

• 20m+. Total Ethereum accounts created this year
• 4 million. New active Ethereum addresses in 2019
• 3. Ethereum went through three network upgrades
• 4,728,152+. Ether issued his year from block rewards.
• Approx 2m. Increase in the average gas limit from 8 million gas to just under 10 million gas
• 8,516. Live Ethereum nodes

Dapps

• 520. New dapps created in 2019
• 2019 brought crypto to mobile: MetaMask Mobile, Argent, Coinbase Wallet and more all release wallets this past year.
• 1–2. The average Ethereum Name Service owner purchased 1–2 domain names while some “whales” own hundreds. And (while this data point is no longer accurate) at one point there were over 600k auctions of ENS domains.
• The longest ENS domain is: Forwhatshallitprofitamanifhegainthewholeworldandsufferthelossofhissoul.eth
• OpenSea has become the leading marketplace for NFT sales totaling over $7 million in auctions over its two-year lifespan of which $1.7 million came from October alone.
• Gods Unchained, one of the most popular dapps on Ethereum has created over 6,714,445 items
• Moloch, MetaCartel, Ethereum Marketing, and at least 25 other DAOs were summoned this year.

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