<p>Ethereum was inching closer toward a network milestone when its fifth birthday arrived: nearly $1 trillion in aggregate transaction volume since July 30, 2015.</p> <p>As reported in The Block's five-year data breakdown of the network, July 30 saw Ethereum reach roughly $986 billion in aggregate transaction volume. As shown in the chart below, Ethereum saw a significant swell of activity beginning in 2018, with the increase becoming more gradual toward the end of that year.</p> <div id="attachment_73486"class="wp-caption alignnone" style="max-width: 2774px;"><img class="has-caption has-caption wp-image-73486 size-full" src="https://www.tbstat.com/wp/uploads/2020/07/Transaction-Volume.png" alt="" width="2764" height="1254" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Source: Coin Metrics</p></div> <p>To read the full article on "Charting Ethereum's five-year journey by the numbers," click <a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/daily/73483/ethereum-five-years-charts">here</a>. </p>