When Arbitrum first launched, it took the DeFi market by storm. Following its enlargement inside a really brief span of time. Nevertheless, the Layer 2 answer appears to be dropping warmth, of late. In truth, its dependence on Ethereum has additional restricted its capabilities.
Ethereum fuelled Arbitrum at present
As an L2 answer, Arbitrum has finished a superb job in scaling Ethereum, however the issue is that whereas the answer is stable, individuals are nonetheless unwilling to take part in it.
Arbitrum is the most important Layer 2 answer after Polygon on the Ethereum community and its progress in simply 4 months has been distinctive. At its top, the DeFi chain was conducting 270k transactions. Nevertheless, for the reason that finish of September, the chain has been persistently dropping individuals.
The common day by day txns have decreased to 20k-25k and the avg quantity is all the way down to $62 million continues to drop which signifies that Layer 2 doesn’t have many customers.
Arbitrum day by day transaction | Supply: Coin98
However, the larger challenge is its dependence on Ethereum. Ethereum ($ETH) is chargeable for 91.5% of all of the transactions on the bridge. This in flip interprets to that nearly 71% of its $6.43 billion quantity is coming from Ethereum’s transactions.
Arbitrum complete transaction quantity | Supply: Alpha Alarm
Aside from ETH, of the remaining 29% quantity, 18% is usually dominated by USDC and DPX, and the remainder 11% of the txn quantity is shared between SPELL and MIM (Magic Web Cash) amongst others.
Arbitrum inflows | Supply: Alpha Alarm
When it comes to outflows, aside from Ethereum surprisingly SPELL has domination there. As for MIM, it looks like customers are using its merchandise on the L2 answer.
Arbitrum outflows | Supply: Alpha Alarm
Arbitrum’s progress
Arbitrum’s TVL not too way back crossed the $2 billion mark however over the month it has upped the entire worth locked in it by solely $200 million.
In truth, the month-on-month progress of the TVL has come down considerably. The expansion in September was 192,578%, in October it got here all the way down to 134%, and as of at present, November’s progress has solely been 6%.
Arbitrum TVL | Supply: DeFi Llama
Whereas there are a number of moments of fine efficiency from a dApp or two, by and enormous, Arbitrum hasn’t been making a lot progress as an L2 answer. And, for the Layer 2 chain to really develop into a viable long-term scaling answer, it should scale back its dependence on ETH and incorporate extra tokens.
