How is "growing fastest" measured?

We compare each L2's **last completed period** to the **period immediately before it**, for each of four metrics. Monthly = last completed month vs the month before. Quarterly = last completed quarter vs the quarter before. Growth is `(current − prior) / prior`, expressed as a percentage. The three flow metrics (throughput, transactions, active addresses) use growthepie's per-chain period-native timeseries, so we don't fake a rolling window by summing dailies — which matters for active addresses, where summing dailies would double-count multi-day users. **TVS is a stock metric**, so it's sampled point-in-time: latest day vs 30 days ago (monthly) or 90 days ago (quarterly).

Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest throughput growth month-over-month?

On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by month-over-month throughput growth are 1. Ink (+66.3%; 2.25 Mgas/s now vs 1.35 Mgas/s prior); 2. Fraxtal (+64.8%; 0.25 Mgas/s now vs 0.15 Mgas/s prior); 3. Robinhood Chain (+32.9%; 25.6 Mgas/s now vs 19.2 Mgas/s prior). Throughput growth is the hardest of the three metrics to game — a chain can't inflate gas-per-second with cheap spam.

Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest transaction growth month-over-month?

On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by month-over-month transaction growth are 1. Gravity (+259%; 910.1k now vs 253.4k prior); 2. Ink (+27.3%; 21.67M now vs 17.02M prior); 3. Lisk (+21.3%; 95.5k now vs 78.7k prior). Transaction growth often reflects fee reductions, hot apps launching, or airdrop farming — see the cross-check guidance below.

Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest active-address growth month-over-month?

On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by month-over-month active-address growth are 1. Gravity (+625%; 814.4k now vs 112.3k prior); 2. Arbitrum Nova (+89.0%; 5.9k now vs 3.1k prior); 3. Lisk (+50.2%; 10.9k now vs 7.3k prior). Active addresses are unique per period — a wallet active on multiple days within the month is counted once, so this isn't inflated by per-user activity bursts the way summed-daily counts would be.

Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest total-value-secured (TVS) growth month-over-month?

On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by month-over-month TVS growth are 1. Starknet (+22.4%; $490.02M now vs $400.48M prior); 2. Plume Network (+20.9%; $86.83M now vs $71.79M prior); 3. Ink (+18.2%; $396.76M now vs $335.54M prior). TVS measures the dollar value of assets bridged to or natively held on the chain — growth here reflects net deposits over the window. Sampled point-in-time (today vs 30 days ago) since TVS is a stock, not a flow.

Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest throughput growth quarter-over-quarter?

On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter throughput growth are 1. Robinhood Chain (+46624%; 18.9 Mgas/s now vs 0.04 Mgas/s prior); 2. Ink (+44.9%; 1.52 Mgas/s now vs 1.05 Mgas/s prior); 3. Fraxtal (+34.3%; 0.19 Mgas/s now vs 0.14 Mgas/s prior). Quarter-over-quarter smooths out monthly volatility — a chain that posts +200% one month and −80% the next won't lead this list, but a chain with steady multi-month growth will.

Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest transaction growth quarter-over-quarter?

On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter transaction growth are 1. Robinhood Chain (+125153%; 793.66M now vs 633.6k prior); 2. Fraxtal (+49.7%; 2.02M now vs 1.35M prior); 3. Ink (+37.6%; 45.85M now vs 33.33M prior).

Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest active-address growth quarter-over-quarter?

On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter active-address growth are 1. Robinhood Chain (+522885%; 16.55M now vs 3.2k prior); 2. Unichain (+486%; 297.9k now vs 50.8k prior); 3. Taiko Alethia (+144%; 84.7k now vs 34.7k prior).

Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest TVS growth quarter-over-quarter?

On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter TVS growth are 1. Robinhood Chain (+432%; $2.58B now vs $484.41M prior); 2. Ink (+64.5%; $396.76M now vs $241.20M prior); 3. Plume Network (+58.9%; $86.83M now vs $54.65M prior). Quarter-over-quarter TVS samples the same point-in-time on the latest day vs 90 days ago — smoother than monthly because short-term bridge flows wash out.

Why exclude tiny chains from the growth ranking?

Because tiny baselines produce silly numbers. A new L2 that goes from 100 daily transactions to 1,000 is growing 900%, but it's not meaningfully scaling Ethereum — and including it would push every chain that actually matters out of the top 10. We apply a minimum-activity threshold on the CURRENT period (e.g. ≥0.05 Mgas/s of throughput, ≥50k transactions per month, ≥1,000 unique addresses per month) before ranking by growth %. Adjust the threshold and you'd get a different ranking — what we publish is the threshold that empirically produces a list of chains people recognise as meaningful.

What does "current period" mean exactly?

The most recent **completed** period. Monthly = the last calendar month that has fully closed. Quarterly = the last quarter that has fully closed. We deliberately avoid the in-progress period — its values change every day and would make the rankings flicker. As a result the "current" period is usually 1–30 days old depending on when in the month the page is fetched.

Is Polygon PoS counted as an L2 here?

No. Polygon PoS is a sidechain with its own validator set and is excluded from these growth rankings, matching the rest of the answer pages on growthepie. Polygon zkEVM is a ZK rollup and is included.

Where does this answer come from?

Per-chain values come from growthepie's per-chain timeseries endpoints (`/v1/metrics/chains/{chain}/{metric}.json`). For the three flow metrics (throughput, txcount, daa) we read `details.timeseries.monthly.data` and `.quarterly.data` and take the most-recent-completed and prior entries. For TVS we read `details.timeseries.daily.data` (the per-chain TVL endpoint only exposes a daily series) and sample the USD column at the latest day plus offsets of 30 days (monthly prior) and 90 days (quarterly prior) — point-in-time comparison appropriate for a stock metric. Growth is `(current − prior) / prior`. L2 membership comes from `master.json` (chains where `bucket !== "Layer 1"` and `chain_type` indicates an Ethereum rollup or validium). Sidechain exclusions on 2026-10-10 UTC: Polygon PoS. No editorial overrides.

Why does the fastest-growing chain not match the "most used" chain?

Because they answer different questions. "Most used" measures the absolute level of activity right now — which chain processes the most transactions, has the most users, the most throughput. "Fastest-growing" measures the rate of change — which chain is increasing fastest from period to period. A mature chain like Base or Arbitrum tops most-used rankings but rarely tops growth rankings; the growth rankings are usually led by smaller chains that recently launched a hot app, reduced fees, or won a major migration.

Can a chain be growing fast on one metric but flat on another?

Absolutely, and the page intentionally exposes all three. A chain that adds a token-launch platform may post massive transaction growth without much throughput growth (the transactions are cheap mints). A chain that wins a single high-value app may grow throughput without growing addresses. A chain that runs an airdrop campaign may grow addresses without sustained transaction growth. We rank all three metrics independently so an honest reader can see where the growth is concentrated.

Where can I see live L2 growth data?

growthepie tracks every L2 with daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly timeseries at [growthepie.com/fundamentals/throughput](https://www.growthepie.com/fundamentals/throughput), [/transaction-count](https://www.growthepie.com/fundamentals/transaction-count), and [/daily-active-addresses](https://www.growthepie.com/fundamentals/daily-active-addresses). Per-chain pages (e.g. [/chains/base](https://www.growthepie.com/chains/base)) show period-over-period change inline.

How is "Ethereum L2" defined here?

An Ethereum Layer 2 is a chain that derives security from Ethereum by posting transaction data and/or state to Ethereum mainnet. This includes optimistic rollups, ZK rollups, and Validiums. Sidechains (independent validator sets, like Polygon PoS) are excluded.

Which Ethereum L2 is growing the fastest?

By Matthias Seidl, Co-founder & Data Lead — growthepie.

Ranked by month-over-month and quarter-over-quarter growth across throughput, transactions, and active addresses — with a minimum-activity filter so tiny chains don't fake the leaderboard.

By month-over-month and quarter-over-quarter growth across throughput, transactions, active addresses, and total value secured: month-over-month: Ink leads throughput growth (+66.3%), Gravity leads transactions (+259%), Gravity leads active addresses (+625%), Starknet leads TVS (+22.4%). quarter-over-quarter: Robinhood Chain leads throughput growth (+46624%), Robinhood Chain leads transactions (+125153%), Robinhood Chain leads active addresses (+522885%), Robinhood Chain leads TVS (+432%). Data: 2026-10-10 UTC. Live leaderboards: growthepie.com/fundamentals/throughput.

Read on growthepie · Updated daily (last refresh: 2026-10-10)

Top 3 by metric and timeframe

Throughput growth (Mgas/s)

Month-over-month: 1. Ink (+66.3%; 2.25 Mgas/s now vs 1.35 Mgas/s prior); 2. Fraxtal (+64.8%; 0.25 Mgas/s now vs 0.15 Mgas/s prior); 3. Robinhood Chain (+32.9%; 25.6 Mgas/s now vs 19.2 Mgas/s prior).
Quarter-over-quarter: 1. Robinhood Chain (+46624%; 18.9 Mgas/s now vs 0.04 Mgas/s prior); 2. Ink (+44.9%; 1.52 Mgas/s now vs 1.05 Mgas/s prior); 3. Fraxtal (+34.3%; 0.19 Mgas/s now vs 0.14 Mgas/s prior).

Transaction count growth

Month-over-month: 1. Gravity (+259%; 910.1k now vs 253.4k prior); 2. Ink (+27.3%; 21.67M now vs 17.02M prior); 3. Lisk (+21.3%; 95.5k now vs 78.7k prior).
Quarter-over-quarter: 1. Robinhood Chain (+125153%; 793.66M now vs 633.6k prior); 2. Fraxtal (+49.7%; 2.02M now vs 1.35M prior); 3. Ink (+37.6%; 45.85M now vs 33.33M prior).

Active addresses growth

Month-over-month: 1. Gravity (+625%; 814.4k now vs 112.3k prior); 2. Arbitrum Nova (+89.0%; 5.9k now vs 3.1k prior); 3. Lisk (+50.2%; 10.9k now vs 7.3k prior).
Quarter-over-quarter: 1. Robinhood Chain (+522885%; 16.55M now vs 3.2k prior); 2. Unichain (+486%; 297.9k now vs 50.8k prior); 3. Taiko Alethia (+144%; 84.7k now vs 34.7k prior).

Total value secured (TVS) growth

Month-over-month: 1. Starknet (+22.4%; $490.02M now vs $400.48M prior); 2. Plume Network (+20.9%; $86.83M now vs $71.79M prior); 3. Ink (+18.2%; $396.76M now vs $335.54M prior).
Quarter-over-quarter: 1. Robinhood Chain (+432%; $2.58B now vs $484.41M prior); 2. Ink (+64.5%; $396.76M now vs $241.20M prior); 3. Plume Network (+58.9%; $86.83M now vs $54.65M prior).

Updated daily — every growth ranking on this page is recomputed from growthepie's public per-chain timeseries. Current = most recent completed period; we deliberately skip the in-progress period to keep the rankings stable day-to-day.

How we measure growth

We compare each L2's last completed period to the period immediately before it, for four metrics:

Throughput (Mgas/s) — hardest to game. A chain can't inflate gas-per-second with cheap spam because every operation costs gas proportional to its complexity.
Transaction count — most intuitive. Sensitive to fee reductions and hot apps launching.
Active addresses — closest proxy for "real users". Period-native unique counts mean a multi-day user is counted once per window.
Total value secured (TVS) — the dollar value of assets bridged to or natively held on the chain. Capital-weight signal; growth here reflects new deposits net of withdrawals.

Two windows:

Month-over-month — last completed month vs the month before. Responsive.
Quarter-over-quarter — last completed quarter vs the quarter before. Smooths out monthly volatility.

Minimum-activity filter. Tiny chains with small baselines can post implausible growth percentages (100 → 1000 addresses reads as +900%). To keep the rankings meaningful, we require each chain to clear a minimum CURRENT-period value before being eligible: ≥0.05 Mgas/s throughput, ≥50k transactions per month, ≥1,000 unique addresses per month, ≥$10M TVS. Adjust the thresholds and you'd get a different list — what we publish is calibrated to surface chains people recognise.

Fastest-growing L2s — month-over-month

As of 2026-10-10 UTC (month-over-month), the fastest-growing Ethereum L2s are Ink by throughput (+66.3%), Gravity by transactions (+259%), Gravity by active addresses (+625%), Starknet by TVS (+22.4%).

Fastest-growing L2s — quarter-over-quarter

As of 2026-10-10 UTC (quarter-over-quarter), the fastest-growing Ethereum L2s are Robinhood Chain by throughput (+46624%), Robinhood Chain by transactions (+125153%), Robinhood Chain by active addresses (+522885%), Robinhood Chain by TVS (+432%).

Methodology and data sources

How the answer is derived (transparent methodology):

Pull the master chain catalogue and filter to chains where bucket !== "Layer 1", deployment === "PROD", and the chain key is not on the explicit non-L2 list below.
For each L2 and each metric, pull the per-chain timeseries endpoint (/v1/metrics/chains/{chain}/{metric}.json).
For flow metrics (throughput, txcount, daa): read details.timeseries.monthly.data and .quarterly.data. Take the second-to-last entry as the current value (most recent completed period) and the third-to-last as the prior value.
For TVS (a stock metric): the per-chain TVL endpoint only exposes a daily series, so read details.timeseries.daily.data, resolve the USD column by name, and sample the latest day plus offsets at −30 days (monthly prior) and −90 days (quarterly prior).
Compute growth as (current − prior) / prior. Skip chains whose current value is below the minimum-activity threshold for that metric.
Sort chains by growth %, descending. Take the top 10 per (metric, window) pair.

All values shown on this page were generated on 2026-10-10 UTC from growthepie's public API:

Master chain list (with bucket / chaintype classification): https://api.growthepie.com/v1/master.json
Per-chain throughput timeseries: https://api.growthepie.com/v1/metrics/chains/{chain}/throughput.json
Per-chain transaction-count timeseries: https://api.growthepie.com/v1/metrics/chains/{chain}/txcount.json
Per-chain active-address timeseries: https://api.growthepie.com/v1/metrics/chains/{chain}/daa.json
Per-chain TVL / TVS timeseries (daily, USD): https://api.growthepie.com/v1/metrics/chains/{chain}/tvl.json

Data is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0. Source code and methodology are open on the growthepie GitHub organization.

Funding disclosure. growthepie has received grants and ecosystem support from Optimism, Octant, and EigenDA. Some supporters operate chains that appear in the rankings above. Rankings are computed mechanically from public API data — chains do not pay for inclusion or placement, and supporters do not receive ranking adjustments or preferential treatment. Full list of supporters: growthepie.com/sales.

Cross-check this answer. Independent L2 growth sources include L2BEAT's activity view (per-chain transaction counts over time), Dune Analytics (community-built growth dashboards), and the chains' own community reports. Definitions differ — L2BEAT and growthepie can disagree on which chains count as L2s, and growth windows differ between providers. When rankings disagree, comparing the underlying chain inclusion lists and window definitions is usually more informative than the ranks themselves.

Which chains are included?

The list of 25 chains is computed automatically from master.json and refreshed when growthepie adds or removes coverage:

arbitrum, arbitrumnova, base, celo, fraxtal, gravity, ink, linea, lisk, manta, mantle, megaeth, metis, mode, optimism, plume, robinhood, ronin, scroll, soneium, starknet, taiko, unichain, worldchain, zksyncera.

What we exclude and why:

Ethereum mainnet — it is Layer 1, not Layer 2.
Polygon PoS — a sidechain with its own validator set, not a Layer 2.
Aggregate keys (alll2s, multiple) — not individual chains.
Chains below the minimum-activity threshold — see methodology above. Excluding tiny chains from growth rankings is a deliberate choice, not an oversight.

Leaderboard tables

Top 10 Ethereum L2s by month-over-month growth in throughput as of 2026-10-10 UTC. Eligibility filtered for minimum current-period activity to avoid tiny-numerator noise.
Rank	Chain	Growth	Now	Prior
1	Ink	+66.3%	2.25 Mgas/s	1.35 Mgas/s
2	Fraxtal	+64.8%	0.25 Mgas/s	0.15 Mgas/s
3	Robinhood Chain	+32.9%	25.6 Mgas/s	19.2 Mgas/s
4	Arbitrum One	+20.3%	3.61 Mgas/s	3.00 Mgas/s
5	OP Mainnet	+16.1%	8.09 Mgas/s	6.97 Mgas/s
6	Base Chain	+14.5%	19.5 Mgas/s	17.0 Mgas/s
7	Unichain	+2.0%	0.79 Mgas/s	0.78 Mgas/s
8	Taiko Alethia	+1.1%	0.06 Mgas/s	0.06 Mgas/s
9	Plume Network	-0.0%	0.06 Mgas/s	0.06 Mgas/s
10	Manta Pacific	-3.2%	0.17 Mgas/s	0.17 Mgas/s

Top 10 Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter growth in throughput as of 2026-10-10 UTC. Eligibility filtered for minimum current-period activity to avoid tiny-numerator noise.
Rank	Chain	Growth	Now	Prior
1	Robinhood Chain	+46624%	18.9 Mgas/s	0.04 Mgas/s
2	Ink	+44.9%	1.52 Mgas/s	1.05 Mgas/s
3	Fraxtal	+34.3%	0.19 Mgas/s	0.14 Mgas/s
4	OP Mainnet	+14.7%	6.79 Mgas/s	5.92 Mgas/s
5	Taiko Alethia	+5.4%	0.06 Mgas/s	0.06 Mgas/s
6	Ronin	+0.4%	0.59 Mgas/s	0.59 Mgas/s
7	Celo	-0.7%	2.65 Mgas/s	2.67 Mgas/s
8	MegaETH	-3.8%	7.56 Mgas/s	7.86 Mgas/s
9	Unichain	-4.4%	0.78 Mgas/s	0.82 Mgas/s
10	Arbitrum One	-4.9%	3.55 Mgas/s	3.74 Mgas/s

Top 10 Ethereum L2s by month-over-month growth in transaction count as of 2026-10-10 UTC. Eligibility filtered for minimum current-period activity to avoid tiny-numerator noise.
Rank	Chain	Growth	Now	Prior
1	Gravity	+259%	910.1k	253.4k
2	Ink	+27.3%	21.67M	17.02M
3	Lisk	+21.3%	95.5k	78.7k
4	ZKsync Era	+20.0%	547.9k	456.7k
5	Metis	+18.5%	263.5k	222.3k
6	Arbitrum One	+7.7%	45.92M	42.63M
7	Scroll	+5.5%	421.5k	399.4k
8	Base Chain	+3.2%	285.10M	276.19M
9	Fraxtal	+1.0%	690.6k	683.8k
10	Unichain	-3.7%	21.86M	22.69M

Top 10 Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter growth in transaction count as of 2026-10-10 UTC. Eligibility filtered for minimum current-period activity to avoid tiny-numerator noise.
Rank	Chain	Growth	Now	Prior
1	Robinhood Chain	+125153%	793.66M	633.6k
2	Fraxtal	+49.7%	2.02M	1.35M
3	Ink	+37.6%	45.85M	33.33M
4	Mode Network	+9.3%	4.40M	4.03M
5	Taiko Alethia	+8.8%	4.44M	4.08M
6	OP Mainnet	+1.0%	148.05M	146.58M
7	Unichain	-2.8%	67.08M	69.00M
8	Base Chain	-2.8%	797.41M	820.54M
9	Ronin	-4.4%	15.44M	16.15M
10	Arbitrum One	-5.6%	142.12M	150.57M

Top 10 Ethereum L2s by month-over-month growth in active addresses as of 2026-10-10 UTC. Eligibility filtered for minimum current-period activity to avoid tiny-numerator noise.
Rank	Chain	Growth	Now	Prior
1	Gravity	+625%	814.4k	112.3k
2	Arbitrum Nova	+89.0%	5.9k	3.1k
3	Lisk	+50.2%	10.9k	7.3k
4	OP Mainnet	+48.5%	700.8k	471.8k
5	World Chain	+48.2%	304.6k	205.6k
6	ZKsync Era	+40.5%	88.3k	62.9k
7	Base Chain	+36.9%	4.67M	3.41M
8	Mode Network	+31.4%	6.2k	4.7k
9	Linea	+28.8%	69.0k	53.6k
10	Metis	+21.4%	5.4k	4.4k

Top 10 Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter growth in active addresses as of 2026-10-10 UTC. Eligibility filtered for minimum current-period activity to avoid tiny-numerator noise.
Rank	Chain	Growth	Now	Prior
1	Robinhood Chain	+522885%	16.55M	3.2k
2	Unichain	+486%	297.9k	50.8k
3	Taiko Alethia	+144%	84.7k	34.7k
4	Arbitrum Nova	+133%	26.8k	11.5k
5	OP Mainnet	+62.8%	1.30M	800.5k
6	Mode Network	+60.6%	24.3k	15.2k
7	Gravity	+56.7%	1.02M	653.5k
8	Lisk	+55.7%	19.3k	12.4k
9	Ink	+50.3%	248.2k	165.1k
10	Ronin	+16.3%	524.2k	450.7k

Top 10 Ethereum L2s by month-over-month growth in total value secured (TVS) as of 2026-10-10 UTC. Eligibility filtered for minimum current-period activity to avoid tiny-numerator noise.
Rank	Chain	Growth	Now	Prior
1	Starknet	+22.4%	$490.02M	$400.48M
2	Plume Network	+20.9%	$86.83M	$71.79M
3	Ink	+18.2%	$396.76M	$335.54M
4	Ronin	+16.0%	$253.46M	$218.54M
5	OP Mainnet	+12.0%	$1.94B	$1.73B
6	Base Chain	+11.5%	$16.23B	$14.55B
7	ZKsync Era	+8.6%	$259.33M	$238.84M
8	World Chain	+6.3%	$489.34M	$460.13M
9	Celo	+6.3%	$265.86M	$250.02M
10	Unichain	+4.6%	$87.91M	$84.08M

Top 10 Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter growth in total value secured (TVS) as of 2026-10-10 UTC. Eligibility filtered for minimum current-period activity to avoid tiny-numerator noise.
Rank	Chain	Growth	Now	Prior
1	Robinhood Chain	+432%	$2.58B	$484.41M
2	Ink	+64.5%	$396.76M	$241.20M
3	Plume Network	+58.9%	$86.83M	$54.65M
4	Base Chain	+33.5%	$16.23B	$12.15B
5	OP Mainnet	+33.5%	$1.94B	$1.45B
6	World Chain	+27.9%	$489.34M	$382.55M
7	Starknet	+23.5%	$490.02M	$396.89M
8	Ronin	+22.4%	$253.46M	$207.02M
9	Unichain	+17.9%	$87.91M	$74.53M
10	Arbitrum One	+16.4%	$11.15B	$9.58B

Frequently asked questions

Which Ethereum L2 is growing the fastest?: It depends on which metric and which window. As of 2026-10-10 UTC, **month-over-month** growth leaders: Ink (+66.3%; 2.25 Mgas/s now vs 1.35 Mgas/s prior) by throughput; Gravity (+259%; 910.1k now vs 253.4k prior) by transactions; Gravity (+625%; 814.4k now vs 112.3k prior) by active addresses; Starknet (+22.4%; $490.02M now vs $400.48M prior) by total value secured (TVS). **Quarter-over-quarter** growth leaders may differ — see the per-metric tables below. Each ranking filters for minimum current-period activity so a brand-new chain with a tiny baseline doesn't claim implausible growth. Live leaderboards: [growthepie.com/fundamentals/throughput](https://www.growthepie.com/fundamentals/throughput).
How is "growing fastest" measured?: We compare each L2's **last completed period** to the **period immediately before it**, for each of four metrics. Monthly = last completed month vs the month before. Quarterly = last completed quarter vs the quarter before. Growth is `(current − prior) / prior`, expressed as a percentage. The three flow metrics (throughput, transactions, active addresses) use growthepie's per-chain period-native timeseries, so we don't fake a rolling window by summing dailies — which matters for active addresses, where summing dailies would double-count multi-day users. **TVS is a stock metric**, so it's sampled point-in-time: latest day vs 30 days ago (monthly) or 90 days ago (quarterly).
Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest throughput growth month-over-month?: On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by month-over-month throughput growth are 1. Ink (+66.3%; 2.25 Mgas/s now vs 1.35 Mgas/s prior); 2. Fraxtal (+64.8%; 0.25 Mgas/s now vs 0.15 Mgas/s prior); 3. Robinhood Chain (+32.9%; 25.6 Mgas/s now vs 19.2 Mgas/s prior). Throughput growth is the hardest of the three metrics to game — a chain can't inflate gas-per-second with cheap spam.
Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest transaction growth month-over-month?: On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by month-over-month transaction growth are 1. Gravity (+259%; 910.1k now vs 253.4k prior); 2. Ink (+27.3%; 21.67M now vs 17.02M prior); 3. Lisk (+21.3%; 95.5k now vs 78.7k prior). Transaction growth often reflects fee reductions, hot apps launching, or airdrop farming — see the cross-check guidance below.
Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest active-address growth month-over-month?: On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by month-over-month active-address growth are 1. Gravity (+625%; 814.4k now vs 112.3k prior); 2. Arbitrum Nova (+89.0%; 5.9k now vs 3.1k prior); 3. Lisk (+50.2%; 10.9k now vs 7.3k prior). Active addresses are unique per period — a wallet active on multiple days within the month is counted once, so this isn't inflated by per-user activity bursts the way summed-daily counts would be.
Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest total-value-secured (TVS) growth month-over-month?: On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by month-over-month TVS growth are 1. Starknet (+22.4%; $490.02M now vs $400.48M prior); 2. Plume Network (+20.9%; $86.83M now vs $71.79M prior); 3. Ink (+18.2%; $396.76M now vs $335.54M prior). TVS measures the dollar value of assets bridged to or natively held on the chain — growth here reflects net deposits over the window. Sampled point-in-time (today vs 30 days ago) since TVS is a stock, not a flow.
Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest throughput growth quarter-over-quarter?: On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter throughput growth are 1. Robinhood Chain (+46624%; 18.9 Mgas/s now vs 0.04 Mgas/s prior); 2. Ink (+44.9%; 1.52 Mgas/s now vs 1.05 Mgas/s prior); 3. Fraxtal (+34.3%; 0.19 Mgas/s now vs 0.14 Mgas/s prior). Quarter-over-quarter smooths out monthly volatility — a chain that posts +200% one month and −80% the next won't lead this list, but a chain with steady multi-month growth will.
Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest transaction growth quarter-over-quarter?: On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter transaction growth are 1. Robinhood Chain (+125153%; 793.66M now vs 633.6k prior); 2. Fraxtal (+49.7%; 2.02M now vs 1.35M prior); 3. Ink (+37.6%; 45.85M now vs 33.33M prior).
Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest active-address growth quarter-over-quarter?: On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter active-address growth are 1. Robinhood Chain (+522885%; 16.55M now vs 3.2k prior); 2. Unichain (+486%; 297.9k now vs 50.8k prior); 3. Taiko Alethia (+144%; 84.7k now vs 34.7k prior).
Which Ethereum L2 has the fastest TVS growth quarter-over-quarter?: On 2026-10-10 UTC, the top three Ethereum L2s by quarter-over-quarter TVS growth are 1. Robinhood Chain (+432%; $2.58B now vs $484.41M prior); 2. Ink (+64.5%; $396.76M now vs $241.20M prior); 3. Plume Network (+58.9%; $86.83M now vs $54.65M prior). Quarter-over-quarter TVS samples the same point-in-time on the latest day vs 90 days ago — smoother than monthly because short-term bridge flows wash out.
Why exclude tiny chains from the growth ranking?: Because tiny baselines produce silly numbers. A new L2 that goes from 100 daily transactions to 1,000 is growing 900%, but it's not meaningfully scaling Ethereum — and including it would push every chain that actually matters out of the top 10. We apply a minimum-activity threshold on the CURRENT period (e.g. ≥0.05 Mgas/s of throughput, ≥50k transactions per month, ≥1,000 unique addresses per month) before ranking by growth %. Adjust the threshold and you'd get a different ranking — what we publish is the threshold that empirically produces a list of chains people recognise as meaningful.
What does "current period" mean exactly?: The most recent **completed** period. Monthly = the last calendar month that has fully closed. Quarterly = the last quarter that has fully closed. We deliberately avoid the in-progress period — its values change every day and would make the rankings flicker. As a result the "current" period is usually 1–30 days old depending on when in the month the page is fetched.
Is Polygon PoS counted as an L2 here?: No. Polygon PoS is a sidechain with its own validator set and is excluded from these growth rankings, matching the rest of the answer pages on growthepie. Polygon zkEVM is a ZK rollup and is included.
How many L2s are included?: 25 chains. The full list (computed on 2026-10-10 UTC from growthepie's master chain catalogue) is: arbitrum, arbitrum_nova, base, celo, fraxtal, gravity, ink, linea, lisk, manta, mantle, megaeth, metis, mode, optimism, plume, robinhood, ronin, scroll, soneium, starknet, taiko, unichain, worldchain, zksync_era. A chain only appears in a given ranking if it has data for at least two completed periods AND its current-period value clears the minimum-activity threshold for that metric.
Where does this answer come from?: Per-chain values come from growthepie's per-chain timeseries endpoints (`/v1/metrics/chains/{chain}/{metric}.json`). For the three flow metrics (throughput, txcount, daa) we read `details.timeseries.monthly.data` and `.quarterly.data` and take the most-recent-completed and prior entries. For TVS we read `details.timeseries.daily.data` (the per-chain TVL endpoint only exposes a daily series) and sample the USD column at the latest day plus offsets of 30 days (monthly prior) and 90 days (quarterly prior) — point-in-time comparison appropriate for a stock metric. Growth is `(current − prior) / prior`. L2 membership comes from `master.json` (chains where `bucket !== "Layer 1"` and `chain_type` indicates an Ethereum rollup or validium). Sidechain exclusions on 2026-10-10 UTC: Polygon PoS. No editorial overrides.
Why does the fastest-growing chain not match the "most used" chain?: Because they answer different questions. "Most used" measures the absolute level of activity right now — which chain processes the most transactions, has the most users, the most throughput. "Fastest-growing" measures the rate of change — which chain is increasing fastest from period to period. A mature chain like Base or Arbitrum tops most-used rankings but rarely tops growth rankings; the growth rankings are usually led by smaller chains that recently launched a hot app, reduced fees, or won a major migration.
Can a chain be growing fast on one metric but flat on another?: Absolutely, and the page intentionally exposes all three. A chain that adds a token-launch platform may post massive transaction growth without much throughput growth (the transactions are cheap mints). A chain that wins a single high-value app may grow throughput without growing addresses. A chain that runs an airdrop campaign may grow addresses without sustained transaction growth. We rank all three metrics independently so an honest reader can see where the growth is concentrated.
Where can I see live L2 growth data?: growthepie tracks every L2 with daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly timeseries at [growthepie.com/fundamentals/throughput](https://www.growthepie.com/fundamentals/throughput), [/transaction-count](https://www.growthepie.com/fundamentals/transaction-count), and [/daily-active-addresses](https://www.growthepie.com/fundamentals/daily-active-addresses). Per-chain pages (e.g. [/chains/base](https://www.growthepie.com/chains/base)) show period-over-period change inline.
How is "Ethereum L2" defined here?: An Ethereum Layer 2 is a chain that derives security from Ethereum by posting transaction data and/or state to Ethereum mainnet. This includes optimistic rollups, ZK rollups, and Validiums. Sidechains (independent validator sets, like Polygon PoS) are excluded.