Ethereum TPS Charts Have A New Leader In Degen Chain

Degen Chain, a recent addition to the Ethereum layer-3 network, has demonstrated the highest transaction per second (TPS) rate within the Ethereum ecosystem in the past 24 hours. In this period, Degen saw its TPS surge by 62%, reaching 35.7 TPS, surpassing its foundation blockchain, Base, which achieved 29.7 TPS, as reported by L2BEAT. Other contenders in the top five include Arbitrum One, Ethereum, and zkSync Era.

The Importance Of TPS

TPS is an essential metric in blockchain technology because it measures the capacity to process transactions within a given timeframe. A higher TPS indicates greater scalability and efficiency, allowing more transactions to be confirmed quickly and reducing congestion on the network. This is crucial for mainstream adoption of blockchain technology, especially in applications requiring high throughput, such as payment systems or DeFi platforms.

Calculating the aforementioned 35.7 TPS over 86,400 seconds in a day implies that the meme coin chain handled 3.08 million transactions during that time frame. Despite this, Degen Chain saw a modest trading volume of $819,600 in the last day, ranking it 35th out of 44 blockchains monitored by CoinGecko.

This results in an average transaction value of $0.27, significantly lower than Ethereum and Base, which stand at $1,867 and $170, respectively. Although TPS is commonly used to gauge the scalability of a blockchain, industry experts argue its limitations, as it overlooks the computational complexity of each transaction.

Accumulating Social Worth

Degen Chain operates on the Degen (DEGEN) token, originally conceived as a tipping mechanism for users engaging with the Degen channel on Farcaster, a decentralized social media platform. According to Thomas Tang of Ryze Labs, this demonstrates how a meme coin can accumulate social worth through widespread usage.

With $4.1 million locked in total value and a $326 million market capitalization for the three-month-old DEGEN token, Degen Chain represents an ultra low cost, application specific layer 3 blockchain, utilizing Arbitrum Orbit and building upon the settlement layer of Base, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution.