Ethereum (ETH) Ecosystem – Ethereum’s mainnet and second-tier scaling solutions such as optimism, polygon, arbitrum, and base are already surpassed by major European digital payment operators with daily trading metrics. At the same time, UnionPay and Visa numbers have not yet been reached.
EVM blockchain surpasses the UK and German payment systems with daily transfer counts
Ethereum Virtual Machine Blockchains – Ethereum (Eth) Mainnet and L2S – have won new records. As demonstrated by Onchain Foundation’s Leon Waidmann, the EVM ecosystem network processed over 27 million transactions in 24 hours.
🚨Ethereum just broke another record! 🚨
Layer 2 network that handled 25m transactions in a day – the best new transaction ever.
With the addition of Ethereum MainNet (L1), the ecosystem reaches nearly 27 million transactions every day.
comention This is already greater than many national payment systems.
🇬🇧uk…pic.twitter.com/bexktypvwx– Leon Waidmann (@LeonWaidmann) September 19, 2025
This is equal to 313 transactions per second. Ethereum (Eth)MainNet itself was responsible for only 2 million transactions, or 7.4% of this massive volume.
As Waidmann points out in X, these numbers are already larger compared to metrics from popular digital transfer apps in the EU and the UK. For example, faster payments in the UK process 11 million payments per day, while Giro Card in Germany process 22 million transactions.
Zengin, a Japanese app, handles almost four times less transactions every day than the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem, analysts say.
At the same time, the EVM ecosystem is far from competing with the world’s largest card system, as China’s Union Pay handles daily transfers of 1.5 billion and 640 million remittances of visa processes.
Ethereum (ETH) price doubled in 3 months
It should be noted that Ethereum (ETH) remains the dominant blockchain of US Dollar Tether (USDT), which accounts for the largest stability that makes up a large part of the world’s cryptographic transfers.
At the time of the latest Tether Transparency Report, Ethereum (ETH) is responsible for $90.7 billion in USDT, while its closest competitor, Tron (TRX), sat at $78 billion in its share.
After much criticism, Ethereum (ETH), the second largest cryptocurrency, is once again in the spotlight for the Crypto community.
In the last 90 days, after peaking at $4,953 on August 24, 2025, Ethereum (ETH) prices have exceeded $2,205 to $4,440.
