Weekly Layers 1 & 2 Update (Week 5, 01/02/2022 – 07/02/2022)

Sphere 3D to buy 60,000 units of BTC mining gear, plans to get 15% of global hashrate. Vitalik Buterin talks about near-future hard fork for ETH.

Key Takeaways

  • Sphere 3D has announced an agreement to buy 60,000 pieces of Bitcoin (BTC) mining equipment, with which it estimates to generate at least 15% of the hashrate of the current global network. This deal would also put Sphere 3D on pace to be one of the largest carbon-neutral bitcoin miners.
  • In a recent tweet, Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin discussed some proposals to add ‘blob-carrying transactions’ in a near-future hard fork, bringing higher scalability to rollups before full sharding is complete.
  • Polkadot (DOT) deposits and withdrawals are now live on the Crypto.com app via Cronos (CRO) chain. In addition, Crypto.com recently announced a multi-year partnership with the LeBron James Foundation to provide crypto education to underserved communities.
  • Cronos (CRO) saw a +7.99% increase in total transactions to 14.00M and an increase of TVL to $2.23B (+14.95% week-on-week). The total number of wallet addresses now stands at 344,336, up +1.37% from last week.

Highlights

Layer 1 Project Metrics

EthereumTerraAvalancheSolanaFantomBinance Smart ChainCronos
Market Cap of Native Coin$376.87B$23.70B$20.48B$37.36B$5.90B$73.11B$12.51B
7-Day Change+14.26%+8.68%+12.02%+16.48%+5.27%+11.75%+7.82%
Total Value Locked (TVL)$135.99B$15.08B$10.44B$8.60B$9.07B$13.65B$2.23B
7-Day Change+9.79%+12.49%+18.41%+4.08%+2.83%+11.72%+15.12%
Cap / TVL2.77x1.57x1.96x4.34x0.65x5.36x5.62x
7-Day Avg. Daily Volume (Native Coin)$14.79B$1.79B$0.74B$2.33B$0.75B$1.21B$0.12B
7-Day Change-11.35%-33.54%-11.50%-1.45%-46.69%-25.27%-23.78%
Price of Native Coin$3,152.29$58.91$83.50$117.74$2.32$434.82$0.50
7-Day Change+17.22%+13.00%+19.17%+17.87%+13.13%+15.49%+15.42%
Total # of Transactions since Launch1.46B88.63M†56.21B184.21M2.45B14.00M
# of Nodes / Validators538813012391487582126
* % change is based on the difference between two subsequent bi-weekly periods
† X-Chain total transactions plus C-Chain total transactions
 ‘-’ denotes missing, unavailable, or incomplete data
Sources: Coingecko, Etherscan, Ethernodes, Terra Station, Terra Etherscan, Avascan, Solana Beach, FTMscan, BSCscan, CronoScan, DeFi Llama

Layer 2 Project Metrics

PolygonLightning NetworkRonin Sidechain†Optimistic EthereumArbitrumBoba
TVL/ Capacity on Network$5.42B$151.03M$620.11M$354.26M$2.1B$93.89M
Total Transactions1.38B301.19M6.18M317,332
Nodes / Unique Addresses6734,3749.86M378,42616,329
* Figure refers to Lightning nodes with active channels
† Ronin is the sidechain developed by Sky Mavis for Axie Infinity
 ‘-’ denotes missing, unavailable, or incomplete data
Sources:  DeFi Llama, Polygonscan, Clark Moody Bitcoin, 1ML, Ronin Explorer, Coingecko, Optimistic Etherscan, Arbiscan, Boba Explorer

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