In 2023, the Polygon project registered 15.24 million new accounts, approaching the number of Ethereum accounts, of which there were 15.4 million. This information was presented in a report from Flipside.
Several interesting facts were discovered in this report:
Polygon attracted almost as many new users in 2023 as Ethereum.
Users with a large number of transactions (100 or more) bought more NFTs than they sold.
85% of wallets made transactions on only one blockchain network, but this percentage was lower than in previous years.
Polygon outperformed Ethereum in attracting new users in the first half of last year, but subsequently reduced its growth rate.
The researchers noted that Polygon started the year with an impressive 2.8 million new users in January, representing more than 40% of the total number of network users in 2023.
The bitcoin blockchain took third place with 10.65 million new accounts. Solana and Arbitrum rounded out the top five.
The total number of users involved in the eight protocols studied was 62 million.
Analysts note that growth began in March, which coincided with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which may have increased interest in decentralized alternatives and reduced confidence in centralized organizations.
It should also be noted that the Base L2 solution project was launched only in August 2023, but has already shown significant results, attracting 1.94 million new accounts. Flipside expects further growth in the number of users in this project this year.
The company's data also shows that 85% of wallets interacted with only one blockchain network. In addition, "super users" with more than 100 transactions bought more NFTs than they sold.
Recall that on November 16, POLS tokens inspired by Ordinals were launched on Polygon, and in this regard, commissions on the network increased by 1000%. Later, the Polygon Labs team introduced the AggLayer solution, an aggregation layer that aims to connect blockchains based on zero-knowledge evidence.
