<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More than 3.1 billion transactions were broadcast across two dozen cryptocurrency networks during the past ten years, a company that tracks the Ethereum transaction mempool has found. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The research, </span><a href="https://blog.blocknative.com/blog/one-billion-transactions?hs_preview=uvqGqHNh-25763534560"><span style="font-weight: 400;">conducted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by San Francisco-based <a href="https://www.blocknative.com/">Blocknative</a>, shows that the twenty-four blockchains together have facilitated over $4.6 trillion in aggregate transfer value from 2009 to 2019, 96% of which occurred between 2017 to 2019. </span></p> <p>The public networks surveyed were: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, EOS, Tron, Stellar, Tether, Ethereum Classic, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, Bitcoin SV, Binance Coin, Dogecoin, Zcash, Verge, Tezos, Decred, Dash, Neo, Waves, DigiByte, Bitcoin Gold and GAS. Those networks were chosen because they have the highest transfer transaction counts, citing CoinMetrics.</p> <p>According to the published data, there were 259.2 million BTC transactions in 2019 and 242.8 transactions on Ethereum during the same year. There were a total of 1.1 billion transactions across all the surveyed networks during 2019, according to the company.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team also expects Bitcoin and Ethereum to surpass the 1 billion transactions per year threshold in 2023. On a broader scale, they predicted that the group of networks could account for nearly 20 billion transactions over the next five years. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I recommend taking this forecast with a big grain of salt, as our future probably will not follow any linear growth projection," </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blocknative CEO Matt Cutler cautioned in the blog post. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Still, these numbers remain dwarfed by those from traditional finance. For example, Visa <a href="https://s1.q4cdn.com/050606653/files/doc_financials/2019/ar/Visa-Inc.-Fiscal-2019-Annual-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> $8.8 trillion in payments volume for the twelve months ending September 30, 2019.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"If we compare it to traditional payment rails, for instance, that there's a huge amount of upside in terms of things that we could do right</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think it begs the question of where do future transactions come from? So there's all this work happening to increase throughput, but where is that going to come from?" asked Cutler. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cutler proposed the so-called "net new transactions," or transactions that couldn’t have happened without blockchains, as one of the major driving forces of the next billion blockchain transactions. As an example, Cutler pointed to </span><a href="https://medium.com/sablier/introducing-sablier-continuous-payments-on-ethereum-c2bf04446d31"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sablier</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an Ethereum-based Dapp that lets employees receive incremental payments via smart contracts. This payment cadence has previously been difficult to deploy due to the burdens involved. </span></p> <p>The team at Blocknative was first prompted to conduct such a report because of its business model. The firm <span style="font-weight: 400;">provides APIs to Ethereum-based projects to track all inbound and outbound transactions before they are confirmed. As such, the team was initially interested in knowing the total transaction volume in the market. </span></p> <p>"T<b></b>he more transactions that are happening, the more opportunity there is for our infrastructure to track those transactions and add value to them. So we have the question, well, so how many transactions have happened and how many transactions are going to happen," said Cutler. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blocknative raised $2 million from Foundry Group in June 2018 and has mostly operated in stealth. Since its inception, the firm has worked with 40 projects, although its service is only limited to Ethereum for now. </span></p><br /><span class="copyright"><p>© 2023 The Block Crypto, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.</p> </span>