Inscriptions push 9 EVM chains to reach yearly transaction highs

The inscriptions craze may not be all bad for blockchain networks, especially those that can scale to handle the spikes in throughput.

An ongoing craze to mint inscriptions on non-Bitcoin-base chains has seen several blockchain networks, including Arbitrum and BNB Chain, hitting all-time highs in throughput.

According to data from the pseudonymous analyst “hildobby,” a data researcher at crypto venture fund Dragonfly, Goerli, zkSync, Arbitrum, Gnosis and the BNB Chain all hit daily peak transactions per second (TPS) in December.

Between 83% and 97% of the transactions on those five chains have been inscriptions. Additionally, Fantom, Celo, Avalanche and Polygon hit new daily TPS records in November, according to the data.

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Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/inscriptions-evm-chains-reach-yearly-transaction-highs