The Ethereum community eclipsed Bitcoin when it comes to complete transaction quantity final yr, although the king of crypto has managed to retain its crown relating to on-line search curiosity.

In response to knowledge from Nasdaq and Ycharts shared on Reddit on Jan. 2, Ethereum had 338% extra complete transaction quantity in 2022 (408.5 million) than the Bitcoin community (93.1 million).

The values proven within the chart are in thousands and thousands of transactions with the common every day transactions at round 1.1 million for ETH and 255,000 for BTC.

Nevertheless, transaction volumes on the Bitcoin community had been steadier and extra periodic than Ethereum, which skilled far more volatility in transaction volumes. This was attributable to spikes in demand at sure occasions resembling NFT launches and different gas-guzzling occasions resembling XEN minting.

Ethereum’s heftier transaction volumes have continued into the brand new yr, with the Ethereum transaction rely on Jan. 2 reaching 924,614, a 300% enhance in comparison with Bitcoin’s 229,191 on the identical day, in response to Bitinfocharts.

The analyst who posted the metrics mentioned he was “skeptical about folks saying {that a} flippening might occur sometime,” including that these advocating for it have motive to take action now.

A flippening happens when one chain surpasses a higher-ranked one for a similar metric, on this case, transactions and exercise.

The charts additionally don’t embrace layer 2 transactions which might put Ethereum even additional forward of Bitcoin for this metric. In response to L2beat, the variety of L2 transactions per second (TPS) truly surpassed these on layer 1 Ethereum in mid-October and has remained above it ever since.

Why the battle for low or no transaction charges actually issues

Nevertheless, whereas Ethereum could also be forward in transaction and exercise phrases, Bitcoin stays probably the most searched cryptocurrency on-line.

On Jan. 1, a newsletter from “In Bitcoin We Belief” revealed that BTC attracted probably the most consideration on the Google search engine in 2022, with 28.4 million month-to-month Google searches internationally.

The report concurred with Cointelegraph which revealed that Ethereum didn’t make second and even third place for search reputation. These spots had been occupied by meme cash Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Dogecoin (DOGE) respectively.

Ethereum, in fourth place, had 3.8 million international month-to-month searches in response to the info.