User Behavior (redux)
How is user behavior different on Optimism compared to L1?
Overview
How is user behavior different on Optimism compared to L1?
Specifically, create a comparison between swaps and transactions on ETH mainnet vs Optimism, looking for things like daily swap volume, daily active users, and average volume swapped (use a single DEX for your comparison, either Uniswap or Sushiswap).
L2 is far cheaper, but by how much? What are the average fees for a swap on Optimism compared to ETH Mainnet?
Method
In this dashboard, I will compare metrics of Sushiswap on Optimism and Ethereum alongside with a general comparison of both chains.
Swap activity of both chains is obtained from sushi.ez_swaps
table which is exclusive for each network.
In order to calculate the average fees of swaps I had to join above table with core.fact_transactions
on tx_hash
My time limitation on this analyse is for ==past 90 days== to the present. All date extract from FlipsideCrypto database.
Definition
Optimism is a fast, stable, and scalable L2 blockchain built by Ethereum developers, for Ethereum developers. Built as a minimal extension to existing Ethereum software, Optimism's EVM-equivalent architecture scales your Ethereum apps without surprises.
A decentralized exchange (better known as a DEX) is a peer-to-peer marketplace where transactions occur directly between crypto traders.
SushiSwap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) in which users can exchange between different virtual currencies using a connected cryptocurrency wallet

Swap Comparison of Sushiswap on Optimism Vs Ethereum
General Comparison on Optimism Vs Ethereum

Conclusion
Comparison of Sushiswap activity on Optimism and Ethereum showed huge difference between them. Seems like Optimism users isn't that much interested on having activity on Sushiswap based on their statistics they have on this DEX.
The only item Optimism wins on comparison by Ethereum is average swap fees. In the matter of general comparison between two chains Ethereum has more stat as well but Optimism number isn't too low as Sushiswap. Here average transaction fees on Optimism is less than Ethereum and other metrics are in benefit of Ethereum chain.
==Sushiswap Observations==
Left side graphs shows swap activity on Sushiswap and base on them, Optimism swaps activity on this DEX is barely notable and most of the time are below 100 transactions. On the other hand swaps activity on Ethereym mainnet is much more compare to Optimism. While number of swap transactions started to growth since two weeks ago Ethereum still losing volume on Sushiswap and decreasing over and over since Sep 17th.
Daily number of swappers on Optimism started to growth along with number of swaps after weeks of sideways but Ethereum shows opposite relation with number of Opti network.
==General Observations==
Unlike barely volume of Optimism on Sushiswap , Here on Optimism network ifself we can see some sign of volume but still is less compare to Ethereum mainnet. We can see a conflict between daily transactions of Optimism and Ethereum. Over the past 90 days Optimism is receiving more transactions compare to Ethereum. In the matter of active users on these chains, Both had a sharp increase on their users on this month but we can't see any major growth.
Swap volume of Optimism on Sushiswap can hardly be seeable on above graph and our results indicates Ethereum volume is falling down constantly for the past 90 days. Another graph on above shows swap fess of Sushiswap paid of two blockchains and Optimism share on this matter is near zero compared to Ethereum network.
In all metrics of swap activity Ethereum has the most share compared to Optimism.
Total number of swaps for Ethereum over the past 90 days in a percentage comparsion is 98.8% with only 1.2% share for Optimism. In this time period Ethereum swap volume on Sushiswap reached to 2.28M USD and Optimism got only 749K USD. Total swappers of Sushiswap on Ethereum is almost 146K and Optimism is 3.4K. Average swap fee for every transaction on Etherum is 0.005 ETH and 0.0002 ETH on Optimism.
General comparison graphs indicates total active users of Ethereum network is near 16M over the past 90 days while Optimism got 478K users. Transactions these users made for Ethereum mainnet is 101M and Optimism has 15M tx. Average transaction fees based on ETH token on Optimism is 0.00008 ETH and every transaction on Ethereum mainnet cause 0.0016 ETH for users.