Ethereum L1 Hits 2025 Record with Over 1.9 Million Daily Transactions

Cover image via www.freepik.com Read U.TODAY on Google News What made this possible? More scaling challenges Advertisement According to a recent social media post by Etherscan, the Ethereum network processed a record-breaking 1.91 million transactions on Layer 1 (L1) in a single day. At the same time, the fees are incredibly low at $0.16. 📊 Ethereum L1 recorded its highest daily transaction count in 2025 Yesterday, Ethereum processed 1,913,481 transactions with an average transaction fee of $0.16 Ethereum is scaling ⧫ pic.twitter.com/AL9T5b8RHj — etherscan.eth (@etherscan) December 24, 2025 This shows that the network can now handle massive traffic without pricing out normal users. HOT Stories Ethereum L1 Hits 2025 Record with Over 1.9 Million Daily Transactions Morning Crypto Report: Legendary XRP Community Insider Drops $589 Riddle; 51,231,999,673 Shiba Inu (SHIB) Deposit Stuns Major Korean Exchange; -39% for Bitcoin? Get Ready, Bollinger Bands Signal Ripple Exec Makes Massive 2026 Prediction Crypto Market Prediction: Shiba Inu (SHIB) 50% Downtrend Should End, Ethereum (ETH) Mini-Death Cross Is Nothing, Bitcoin $80,000 Drop: Flip or Flop? What made this possible? This combination of high throughput and low costs is the direct result of two major network upgrades executed in 2025: Pectra and Fusaka. Advertisement Fusaka, which went live earlier in the month, is the most immediate cause of the record was the upgrade. This upgrade directly expanded the capacity of the Ethereum L1 blockchain. The upgrade has managed to increase the size of each block by roughly 33%. This allowed the L1 network to fit significantly more transactions into every block. Previously, all nodes had to download all data, which created a bottleneck. PeerDAS, a new feature introduced in Fusaka, has made it possible for nodes to verify data "blobs", large chunks of transaction data, by sampling just tiny parts of them. Blobs, which were introduced in an earlier update called Dencun but expanded here, are like sidecars attached to the main block. They carry data cheaply and don't compete with standard transactions. Advertisement You Might Also Like Wed, 12/24/2025 - 13:29 Christmas Ethereum Surprise: Almost 1,000,000% Profit Triggers Epic Whale Awakening By Gamza Khanzadaev The Pectra upgrade, which took place in May, laid the groundwork for scaling by optimizing how Layer 2 networks of the likes of Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base interact with the main chain. Pectra doubled the number of these "sidecars" from 3 to 6 per block. Because there was suddenly double the supply of space for Layer 2 data, the cost for L2s to "settle" on Ethereum dropped. This kept the overall network uncongested. More scaling challenges Ethereum scaling is still not "finished" despite the massive success of the 2025 upgrades. The Ethereum ecosystem is still fractured. Users often have funds "stuck" on one L2 and cannot easily use them on another without using complicated bridges. Hence, the fragmentation remains a major issue. The database of all accounts, balances, and smart contracts (the "State") grows larger and larger. Eventually, the State becomes terabytes or petabytes in size. If it gets too big, a normal person can't buy a hard drive big enough to run a node. #Ethereum News