Overview
- Glassnode reports roughly 4 million new active addresses this month, lifting monthly active users to about 8 million as retention in the “New” cohort nearly doubled.
- Daily throughput set a new high at 2.8 million transactions, up about 125% year over year, with daily active addresses topping 1 million versus roughly 410,000 a year ago.
- Analysts link the surge to record stablecoin settlement and cheaper transactions on Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism, with some reports attributing added capacity to the Fusaka upgrade’s ~33% block-size increase.
- U.S. spot Ether ETFs recorded sustained net inflows, including $175 million on January 14 and $164 million on January 15, according to SoSoValue data cited by CoinCentral and WuBlockchain.
- Staking is at all-time highs but reported levels diverge, with CoinCentral citing over 36 million ETH staked (nearly 30% of supply) versus Coinspeaker’s claim of more than 50%, alongside 976,117 active validators and 2.3 million ETH waiting to stake.