During the $ARB airdrop launch, Arbiscan and homepage were down, while transactions failed.
What was happening behind the scenes?
Here is a summary of what happened on-chain, in under 5 min.⏳
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1️⃣ @DefiLlama
$ARB climbed to 3rd place among all chains by fees accrued.👀
Notice that $UNI flipped $ETH and took 1st place.🤯
Uniswap had the most volume among other DEXs=$888M
2️⃣DEX & stablecoin activity
Both experienced massive growth in volume.
Dex volume ⬆️
Stablecoin inflows⬆️
3️⃣ @ultrasoundmoney
Transaction fees skyrocketed.🚀
Some people paid 5-10$ tx fee just to claim $ARB airdrop.
However, $ARB was the second biggest $ETH burner in the last 24h.
193.42 $ETH burned.🔥
They probably also contributed to $ETH transfers and $UNI burn.
4️⃣ @Artemis__xyz
$ETH, $OP and $ARB comparison.
Arbitrum's
•Fees
•Revenue
almost surpassed $ETH.
5️⃣Flippening
Txs and daily active addresses surpassed $ETH.
Transactions managed to spike to 2x of Ethereum's.🚀
While daily active addresses were not much higher.
6️⃣ @DuneAnalytics
Transactions hit ATH≈2 730 000🤯
$OP had≈486k on airdrop day
Although fees were high, they were nowhere near what they were when Odyssey began.
Nitro upgrade:
•Reduced tx fees
•Increased throughput
7️⃣Daily active addresses
Daily active addresses of $ARB were up almost 6x from $OP.
On airdrop day:
• $ARB≈611 000
• $OP≈106 000
8️⃣Airdrop stats📊
Only 625,143 addresses were eligible.
Average allocation=1,859 $ARB
Most people got the smallest amount of 625 $ARB
As of now, ≈ 80% of tokens are already claimed.
9️⃣A total of 1.275B $ARB tokens were allocated.
It's only 12,75% of the total airdrop allocation.
The total value of the airdrop is $1.94B.
FDV is $15.21B
Thanks to @blockworksres for providing this data.
@blockworksres 1️⃣0️⃣CEXs deposits
Three biggest CEXs by $ARB deposits:
✔️Binance
✔️KuCoin
✔️OKX
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