Base profits are down 90% despite 80% surge in transactions

It’s still very much a bull market for Base. But that hasn’t exactly converted to major profits just yet.

The Ethereum layer-2 is setting new records for transaction counts and unique active addresses every other day — recording over four million transactions per day from more than one million unique addresses right now.

Both those metrics can be easily boosted by Sybil bots and whatnot, but in any case, volumes on Base DEXs Aerodrome and Uniswap are holding steady, while some others across other blockchains have fallen. 

The blue line on the chart below shows the weekly transaction count for Base. The orange one plots the combined count for rival networks Arbitrum, Optimism and…

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