The crypto markets just dropped 15% to 20% in a day with Bitcoin going to 21k, and Ethereum to 1100. The ATH for Ethereum was 4800, so this is now more then a 70% correction! It is getting rough out there with some projects under real stress. 

Let’s take a look how is this effecting the network. Data on the numbers of transactions, new wallets, hash rate and the overall activity. 


 
![01.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmaZbEM9drP8hahY8xK8Uj5jKv8PyNTYiRtsGGqrhhYqEn/01.png)

We will be looking at:
-	Total number of wallets
-	Active wallets
-	Transactions
-	Hash rate
-	Fees
-	Market cap 

The data presented here is mostly gathered from [the etherscan charts]( https://etherscan.io/charts).

## Number of Wallets
Here is the chart for the total number of Bitcoin wallets created.


 

![image001.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmU5zBLZVyQByKB9KCS8Ps3a6GRUA6wtDbyhfh7GcsDfv7/image001.png)

Ethereum is now closing on **200M** wallets!
It is the leading blockchain in crypto by the number of wallets. Just a 1M shy of 200 now. For comparison bitcoin is still under 100M wallets. 


When we look at the number of **new wallets created** daily we get this chart. 
 

![image003.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmVDru51WTBh4q68oSH6t334nQdKZC9CekqqR8D48m6pAb/image003.png)


This is starting from 2021.
We can see that the peak in the number of wallets created was in June 2021, then we have a drop during the summer of 2021, and small up trend in November 2021, and a continuous downtrend since then. 
In the last period the numbers of wallet created per day is around 80k. 
The numbers of new wallets created follows the price action. 


## The yearly chart for new Ethereum wallets

The chart for the number of new Ethereum wallets per year looks like this.

 
![image005.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmSeRP3pXkyUaiMAuvGVqBFCzhsFUnHM4SwcWGyvQbToQN/image005.png)

We can see that the ATH for new wallets is in 2021 with more than 50M wallets created in a single year. In 2020 that number was also high with 47M wallets. 2022 is not over yet, but from the first months we can see that it will most likely ends with less wallets created then 2021. Almost a half a year in and there is around 16M wallets created. 


## Active wallets
How many of the are being used? 
Here is the chart.

 
![image007.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmby67ALyzNX1utE3vYVGbNc5qeoCrPi9yYvunVXenhuMr/image007.png)



The record high numbers for active Ethereum wallets per day was reached in May 2021 with **800k** active wallets per day. We can notice that in the last two years the average is somewhere around 500k wallets per day.

If we **zoom in** in the last two years we get this.

 

![image009.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmbVvEUSBFG4JV6BfR7qnBZMsN6SDYcEcwggu127bQX6wu/image009.png)

We can see the ATH here as well with 800k touched in May 2021 and a sharp downtrend afterwards. Since then we are in a range between 500k to 600k, with a slight drop in the last month to a 400k active wallets per day. 


## Transactions 
The activity on the network is mostly represented by the number of daily transactions.


 
![image011.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmRtqRMT1eAu4HAF9pMz2cx7KxHwhscHuJ16aqpZD7v4jL/image011.png)

Ethereum has been know by its expensive fees, so all the above have paid some nice fees to be included, especially in the last two years. We can notice that the ATH was reached in May 2021 with transaction number of 1.7M in a day. This is probably some of the technical capacity that the ETH network can handle, although it depends a lot of what type of transactions are made as well, since some of them require more resources then others. 
We can notice a drop in the number of transactions in 2022, but still above 1M per day. 


## Hash Rate
The network security in a proof of work chains is measured in hash rate, or how difficult is to mine. The bigger the completion, the higher the hash rate.


 
![image017.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmXNscxQCMqpojsGVsTfwJL7UbJHkWnye9oXi1PAZBrU1A/image017.png)


The hash rate has been going mostly up, until June 2021, when we can see a sharp drop. This is because of the ban on Chinese miners. An increase again since then, and just a tiny drop in the last month. 
The Ethereum network is set to transit to Proof of stake, and all the miners will then shut down. Whoever wants to run a miner, or a validator as it is the new name will need to stake at least 32 ETH. We will be following the number of validators and ETH staked then.


## Fees
A bit unpopular topic the fees. 

 

![image015.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmc1NCyzbu2ap6gktipF127Q2LqcMDaYfPJqpzWFHsLNf5/image015.png)

Ethereum has been the blockchain with the highest fees. As we can see from the chart they have been more then 50$ per transaction on a multiple days, and on a few of them even reached a 100$. The ATH was again back in May 2021, then an increase again in November 2021, and a decline in the fees since then. In the last period for most of the days the fees have been under 10$, into the single digit number, that has been a rare thing for ETH.

## Market cap

At the end a look at the market cap in 2021 and 2022. 

![image019.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmY9mxsKWFbeHz6Zp29hcfNUB1d13Z4ePotyag6Xba7DZ5/image019.png) 


At the beginning of 2021 the Ethereum market cap just reached 100B and continue to grow to more than 500B in November 2021. Since then we have a drop in the market cap to around 150B where it is now. 

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New wallets are created on Ethereum daily adding up to the current base. ETH is now very close to the 200M mark in the numbers of wallets. There is a slowing down in 2022, but still more wallets keeps adding up. The numbers of transactions, have also seen a drop in the last period. The hash rate has been one of the strongest parameter for the network, and we can barely see a drop in the last month after a long period of the hash rate increasing. One positive side of the numbers going down is that fees are also going down. ETH now seats around 150B 


All the best
@dalz

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