ETH: DeFi New Addresses
Shown as its 2019–2022 sample; the latest readings and full history are included with Plus.
The addresses that used the covered DeFi protocols on Ethereum for the first time each day, within this record.
Why use it. New addresses separate genuine growth from the same crowd coming back, so a rally that brings in fresh addresses looks different from one that does not. How to read it. Each point counts the addresses whose first transaction with these protocols fell on that day. Spikes mark airdrop claims, new applications or bull-market waves of new money.
Calculation. An active address of a protocol is an address that signs a transaction in which one of the protocol's contracts records an event, read on CryptoKeyhole's own Ethereum node: for Aave (v2 and v3 on Ethereum), Spark, Compound v3 and Morpho Blue any event of their lending pools; for Uniswap (v2, v3 and v4) and SushiSwap v2 a Swap in one of their pools (an address that only adds or removes liquidity is not counted); for Lido its staking and withdrawal events. A transaction sent through a router or an aggregator counts for whoever signed it, a smart-contract wallet counts its signer rather than the wallet, and bots and automated strategies count like any other sender (since EIP-7702 one account can act for many, and one person can use many addresses): these are active addresses, not people. Each address counts once per protocol on a day and once per protocol in a 30-day window, however many transactions it signs. History: read once from the node's frozen log indexes and transaction files, the newest blocks from its logs each hour; Ethereum mainnet only, each protocol's other networks are not counted; first-time addresses are first-time within this history (Uniswap from its v2 launch in May 2020, Aave from its v2 launch, Compound from v3, Morpho from Morpho Blue). Daily, by UTC day; the latest day is a partial until it closes.