Ethereum Shatters Records: Highest Daily Transaction Count of 2025 Follows Major Upgrades

Ethereum's network just hit its highest daily transaction count of the year. The surge follows a series of critical upgrades—proof that the blockchain's evolution is finally translating to real-world use.

The Numbers Don't Lie

Forget the hype. The metric that matters—daily transactions—just printed a yearly high. It's a concrete signal that developer activity and user adoption are accelerating in tandem with the network's technical improvements.

Upgrades Delivering Results

The recent protocol enhancements are doing their job. They're cutting gas fees during peak times and bypassing previous bottlenecks, making the network more efficient and accessible. It's a textbook case of infrastructure investment paying off.

A Network Under Load

This record isn't a fluke. It's stress-test evidence. The network handled the volume, validating the scalability roadmaps that have been in the works for years. For once, the roadmap met reality.

So, while traditional finance wrestles with legacy systems and quarterly reports, Ethereum's ledger just quietly notched a win based on pure utility. Take that, Wall Street.

What is the highest number of transactions on Ethereum?

Ethereum stakeholders believe the 2025 transaction count record can be linked to a combination of high throughput and low costs, which were directly linked to the two major network upgrades that occurred during the year: the Pectra and Fusaka upgrades.

The Fusaka upgrade went live earlier this month and has been singled out as the most probable and immediate cause for the achievement of the new record. The upgrade directly expanded the capacity of the ethereum L1 blockchain, increasing the size of each block by roughly 33%.

That increase may seem minute, but it has allowed the L1 network to fit significantly more transactions into every block. In the past, all nodes were tasked with downloading all data, which resulted in a bottleneck.

The Fusaka upgrade introduced PeerDAS, a new feature that has made it possible for nodes to verify data “blobs”, large chunks of transaction data, by sampling just tiny parts of them. Blobs are like sidecars attached to the main block and carry data cheaply without competing with standard transactions.

The Fusaka upgrade follows the Pectra upgrade, which was implemented in May, laying the groundwork for scaling by optimizing how Layer 2 networks, such as Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base, interact with the main chain.

Pectra doubled the number of the aforementioned “sidecars” from 3 to 6 per block. And because there was suddenly double the supply of space for Layer 2 data, the cost for L2s to “settle” on Ethereum dropped.

Ethereum still faces some critical issues

The Pectra and Fusaka upgrades have kept the overall network uncongested and resulted in lower average gas fees. However, scaling challenges still exist within the ecosystem.

There is also the fact that the Ethereum ecosystem as a whole is fractured, and users still find it challenging to use L2 funds, as that involves navigating complicated bridges and routes.

The fragmentation issue remains a big one, but every now and then, a new L2 pops up, and the database of all accounts, balances, and smart contracts (the “State”) keeps growing larger and larger.

If this keeps up, the State becomes terabytes or petabytes in size. And if it gets too big, it becomes impossible for a normal person to buy a hard drive big enough to run a node.

Despite the critical issues fragmentation poses, Ethereum continues to attract institutional players.

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