Year over year, the Ethereum ecosystem continues to expand and evolve. This year brought a new wave of innovation and blockchain growth. The Ethereum network improved via both network upgrades and increased developer mindshare. DeFi brought hundreds of millions of dollars in value into the Ethereum ecosystem while over 520 new decentralized applications were created throughout the course of the year. Let’s take a minute to analytically reflect on this past year while gaining optimism for the future years to come.

Network

20m+. Total Ethereum accounts created this year

4 million. New active Ethereum addresses in 2019

3. Ethereum went through three network upgrades

4,728,152+. Ether issued his year from block rewards.

Approx 2m. Increase in the average gas limit from 8 million gas to just under 10 million gas

8,516. Live Ethereum nodes

Dapps

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