USDT
transactions on the Ethereum network are increasing steadily. However, the
network is close to reaching its maximum capacity and as Tether continues to
print more stable coins, there’s less and less room for developers of
decentralized applications (DApps). This brings up the scalability issues of
Ethereum and it makes finding a solution even more urgent.
USDT
ERC-20 Transactions Take Up 25% Of Ethereum’s Network
Data from
Etherscan reveals that on September 6th, the Ethereum network processed a total
of 768,500 transactions.
On the same
day, there were 185,255 USDT ERC-20 transactions carried on the network. This
is almost 25% of all the transactions for that day.
Now,
according to Tether’s transparency page, there’s around $1.5 billion worth of
USDT which circulates on the network of Ethereum. This represents a total of
about 40% of Tether’s entire circulating supply.
As seen on
the chart above, the total transaction count of USDT actually reached its
all-time high on September 6th and it appears that it’s in an increasing trend
as it keeps on going up during the past couple of weeks.
Is It
Becoming a Problem?
Data reveals
that the Ethereum network is currently operating at 94.74% capacity. In other
words, there’s almost no room left.
Evidently,
one of the major consumers is Tether and its stable coin USDT. As the company
continues to print more and more of it, the amount which circulates on
Ethereum’s network is probably going to grow as well.
The more
this continues, the less space there will be available for developers of
decentralized apps to use. Given that this is Ethereum’s main intention, one
can easily see how this is becoming a problem.
As Tech Tic
Technologies reported, there are a couple of solutions already in the making,
namely Sharding and Plasma, but it remains unclear when we can expect their
actual implementation.
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