Published On Sep 23, 2025
Updated On Sep 23, 2025
Unichain Dashboard Insights 2025: Data-Driven Analysis of DeFi Growth and Risks
From $61B+ in DEXs' trading volume to over 6M+ wallets onboarded, Unichain’s early growth is significant.
Yet the concentration behind that growth is even more revealing. Liquidity is deep but highly dependent on a single protocol, a dynamic that makes Unichain a live case study for DeFi’s next phase.
In 2025, the Layer 2 race is no longer just about speed or throughput. The real test is whether new infrastructure can ease liquidity fragmentation, cut execution costs, and deliver smoother cross-chain experiences.
This Unichain dashboard analysis places the chain within the broader Layer 2 race. From adoption and liquidity to execution reliability and costs, the data surfaces signals that extend beyond one network and hint at where DeFi is headed next.
Let’s get started.
Dashboard at a Glance: Key Unichain Metrics
The dashboard provides a clear snapshot of Unichain’s position in September 2025. The numbers highlight both rapid early adoption and structural risks that will shape its trajectory going forward:
- Adoption at Scale: More than 6M+ wallets have been onboarded within the first few months, with 500K–1M daily transactions anchoring activity across trading, lending, and emerging DeFi apps.
- Liquidity Depth: On Unichain, Total Value Locked (TVL) sits at $365.67M, while Total Value Secured (TVS) has climbed to $771M.
- Trading Volume: Decentralised exchanges have already processed more than $61B in cumulative volume, a sign of meaningful size and throughput at this early stage.
- Fee Generation: The network has accrued $2.2M+ in transaction fees, evidence of real user activity beyond speculative wallet growth.
- Cost Efficiency: Average gas fees remain well below Ethereum L1, enabling high-frequency trading, automation, and micro-transactions that would otherwise be cost-prohibitive.
- Execution Reliability:Unichain maintains high transaction success rates, with only minimal failures or reverts, a critical factor for developer confidence and institutional adoption.
Unichain processes meaningful size with strong adoption, low fees, and reliable execution. But the same data points also highlight the risks; liquidity remains heavily concentrated, and long-term sustainability will hinge on whether usage diversifies across protocols and cohorts.
To understand whether this growth is momentum or maturity, we need to look closely at adoption, like wallet onboarding, transaction activity, and developer integrations, which provide a clearer signal of Unichain’s trajectory than TVL alone.
Transaction Success and Reliability on Unichain
The dashboard data tells us whether a chain can sustain scale without compromising user experience.
In Unichain’s case, the analytics highlight both the strengths of its architecture and the context behind observed failure rates.
Here are the key metrics to look at, starting with success rate, the clearest indicator of reliability.
Success Rate: Measuring Stable Settlement
As of September 2025, Unichain maintains a success rate of 83.3%, with 16.7% of transactions failing.
While the majority of activity settles reliably, the failure rate is not insignificant and highlights areas where execution efficiency can improve as the network scales.
Transaction Trends and Gas Usage
Unichain processes up to one million daily transactions, with success rates holding above 80% even during peak load. Failures scale with overall volume but do not overwhelm throughput.
Gas usage reinforces this picture: successful transactions average 0.0002361 GWEI, while failed ones use 0.0000783 GWEI.
Most network resources are therefore tied to transactions that finalise, keeping inefficiency limited.
Overall, the data suggests a system that absorbs heavy activity efficiently, though the non-trivial failure rate signals there is still room for optimisation as usage scales.
Next, we look at execution speed, block times, confirmations, and throughput to see how the dashboard captures Unichain's performance in terms of efficiency.
High-Speed Execution and Network Efficiency
Beyond reliability, execution speed defines how efficiently the network processes activity. The following metrics track block confirmation, transaction throughput, gas utilisation, and contract deployment.
Contract Deployment on Unichain
Contract creation is a proxy for how actively developers are building on the network.
- Total contracts deployed: 2,582,474
- This steady flow highlights strong developer activity, with teams leveraging Unichain’s execution speed for DeFi protocols and other applications.
High deployment counts suggest that Unichain is not only processing user transactions but also attracting builders who are expanding the ecosystem’s scope.
Block Production & Confirmation Speed
Block production speed is the first indicator of execution efficiency. Dashboard reveals that blocks were finalised almost instantly, keeping settlement times predictable for both users and applications.
- Blocks confirmed within 1 second: Unichain finalises 100% of blocks in under a second, ensuring near-instant settlement and minimal latency.
- New blocks per day: 86,400, which is equivalent to one block every second, reflecting continuous throughput and predictable block cadence.
- Average block size of 6,377.86 bytes, suggesting that blocks are consistently utilised without nearing saturation, leaving room for higher activity without congestion.
Transaction Throughput: Processing Scale and Consistency
Throughput shows how much activity a network can handle over time, and whether scale holds steady as adoption grows.
- Total transaction count:Unichain has processed 225,795,342 transactions to date, which is a strong signal of early adoption and consistent usage.
- Average Transactions per second (TPS): ~11 transactions
Even without full TPS and size data, the total transaction count already places Unichain among the more active Layer 2s in its growth stage, showing that the network has been stress-tested by real user activity.
Gas Utilisation & Network Efficiency
Gas metrics show whether a network is operating near its limits or with room to scale further.
On Unichain, both per-second gas usage and daily utilisation relative to the gas limit reveal a system that is efficient and not close to saturation.
- Gas used per second: 2338015.92
Gas utilisation measures how much of the network’s total capacity is actually being consumed.
- Relative Utilisation:Unichain’s daily gas utilisation has generally stayed below 15% of total capacity. Even during activity peaks, the chain is operating far from its upper limits, indicating substantial headroom for additional load.
- Gas Used vs Gas Limit: The comparison shows that actual gas consumption (blue) remains well below the maximum gas limit (pink). This means the network consistently processes transactions without approaching saturation, reducing the risk of congestion or fee spikes.
Low utilisation percentages suggest that Unichain has designed its capacity with significant overhead.
For users, this translates into predictable costs and stable performance; for builders, it signals that the network can absorb higher adoption without immediate scalability bottlenecks.
Next, we look at user metrics, which are wallets, activity, and retention, to see how that performance translates into adoption.
User Metrics and Retention Signals
User adoption is the clearest test of whether execution performance is translating into real usage.
Distinct addresses: Unichain has reached 6,394,551 unique addresses, reflecting rapid onboarding in its first months.
Distribution by user activity:
- 1-day users: 5,347,595
- 15–20 day users: 11,959
- 20+ day users: 46,537
This distribution shows that most wallets interact only once, while a smaller share maintains consistent activity.
Last 30-day breakdown:
- Active users: 134,622
- New users: 58,621
- Returning users: 76,001
Returning users outnumber new ones, suggesting early signs of stickiness despite overall activity being a fraction of total onboarded wallets.
- Monthly retention rates: Last month's retention rate is 4.3%
While address counts have surged, most are tied to single-day activity, raising questions about how much of this growth reflects sustained user engagement.
Cost, however, is one factor that directly influences whether users return, and Unichain’s low gas fees play a central role in shaping that behaviour.
Low Gas Fee Advantage on Unichain
Gas costs directly shape how users and protocols behave.
For Unichain, consistently low fees are one of the strongest drivers of adoption, making high-frequency transactions, automation, and micro-activity viable at scale.
Daily Gas Trends: Volume, Usage, and Costs
- Gas price: The daily average remains low at 0.0283 GWEI, keeping transactions affordable even during periods of high activity.
- Cumulative activity: To date,Unichain has processed 225,795,342 transactions, consuming 46.8T gas units in total.
Gas costs remain consistently low relative to transaction volume, confirming that the network can scale without pushing users into fee-driven drop-off.
The challenge is less about affordability and more about sustaining activity levels that justify such high cumulative consumption.
L1 vs L2 Costs: Transaction Fees, Priority Fees, and Implications
One of the main reasons users and protocols move to Layer 2 is cost. Unichain’s fee data highlights how expenses are distributed across layers and what it means for day-to-day usage.
- Average transaction fee: 3,125.4 GWEI
- Average L1 fee: 153.2 GWEI
- Average L2 fee: 2,986.0 GWEI
- Average priority fee: 2,483.4 GWEI
This indicates that most of the costs users experience on Unichain originate from execution and priority bidding within the rollup itself, rather than from settling back to Ethereum.
While the total average transaction cost remains much lower than doing the same activity on L1, the priority fee component (2,483 GWEI) signals that demand for fast inclusion is already shaping Unichain’s fee market.
Contract Activity and Costs by Age
Contract-level data shows that usage is spread across both new and older deployments:
- Gas and fees: Contracts aged 91–365 days drive the highest gas usage and L2 fees, while newer ones (0–90 days) account for a smaller but growing share.
- Interactions: Older contracts continue to see millions of interactions, proving sustained relevance.
Activity varies by contract age:
- 0–30 days: High early interactions, fewer unique users → testing phase.
- 31–90 days: Engagement stabilises as contracts mature.
- 91–365 days: Older contracts lead in interactions and users, showing long-term stickiness.
Most activity comes from established contracts, while new ones drive experimentation but have yet to match sustained adoption.
Low fees remain one of Unichain’s defining features. Stable gas prices, lower costs than L1, and efficiency across both new and mature contracts point to a network designed to support high-frequency DeFi, automation, and everyday user activity without cost barriers.
With low fees in place, the next lens is DEX activity on Unichain, the clearest measure of how users and liquidity interact within this ecosystem.
DEX Activity Metrics On Unichain
For Unichain, DEX metrics highlight how liquidity flows and how users engage with it.
The dashboard captures trading volumes, active users, and contract-level activity, making clear where value is pooling and how it evolves.
Liquidity & Security Over Time (TVL and TVS)
- TVL on Unichain: $365.67M
- TVS on Unichain: $771M
Liquidity is meaningful but heavily concentrated. The TVS figure shows the collateral secured across Unichain’s DEX contracts.
Daily Activity on Unichain DEX: Volume and Trade Sizes
Unichain DEX processes billions in monthly volume, with activity split between frequent small trades and occasional large flows, showing breadth of usage but a relatively concentrated trader base.
In the past 30 days, Unichain DEX activity highlights both scale and diversity of participation:
- Volume: $7.91B
- Unique trades: 6,324,568
- Unique traders: 68,848
- Average trade size: $997
- Maximum trade size: $3.73M
Volumes consistently run into the hundreds of millions. The mix of sub-$1K average trades alongside multi-million-dollar transactions suggests participation across both retail and institutional segments.
User Participation on DEXs: Active Traders and Growth Trends
- Cumulative active DEX users - 1,765,965
- Daily unique users on Unichain DEXs continue to grow, confirmed by 7- and 30-day moving averages.
- DEX daily active users on Unichain show consistent engagement, with cumulative counts pointing to sticky adoption.
User participation shows consistent engagement on Unichain DEXs, though
cumulative totals suggest adoption is still building toward a broader scale.
Contracts Driving Unichain DEX Activity
New contract deployments are 2.5M + on Unichain and continue steadily, showing ongoing DEX experimentation and liquidity pool launches.
Gas Consumption and DEX Revenue
- Total gas consumed on Unichain DEXs: 15,996,084,221,511
- DEX revenue on Unichain: steady daily inflows, with cumulative growth in USD
High gas consumption paired with sustained fee flows confirms that Unichain’s DEX layer is not only active but also economically viable.
DEX metrics show Unichain as liquidity-rich yet concentrated, with consistent user engagement and active contract deployment.
Strong trading volumes and revenue validate activity at scale, but broader liquidity diversification will determine its resilience.
Future Outlook: What to Watch Next
The data shows that Unichain is growing fast, but it is also facing the same questions that define any new execution layer:
- Liquidity concentration: A heavy reliance on one protocol leaves the risk of exposure if volumes shift.
- User stickiness: Millions of wallets are active, but long-term sustainability depends on retention, not just onboarding.
- Fee dynamics: Priority fees already form the bulk of costs, a signal that usage pressure is shaping the network’s internal economics.
- Developer activity: With millions of contracts deployed, the question is whether activity broadens beyond DeFi into new verticals.
These signals point to larger themes across the L2 landscape. Dashboards like this make it possible to see where growth is durable and where risks are hidden.
Without data, liquidity and adoption stories blur into narrative; with data, they become measurable.
The same patterns connect closely with Challenges of Web3 Data: Volume, Velocity, and Veracity, where scaling ecosystems increasingly struggle to balance growth with reliability of insights.
About Lampros Tech
The Unichain dashboard in this analysis is one example of how Lampros Tech approaches blockchain data.
Turning millions of transactions into clear, actionable metrics requires more than queries; it takes structured pipelines, efficient indexing, and the ability to surface insights that scale with network activity.
Our team has the resources and technical depth to build dashboards like this across ecosystems:
- Data engineering: transforming raw on-chain logs into reliable datasets.
- Cross-chain analytics: handling both L1 and L2 activity without losing accuracy.
- Production-ready design: dashboards that are not just exploratory but operational tools for protocols and DAOs.
For protocols, DAOs, or chains, dashboards like this make adoption, execution, and liquidity measurable. That’s what Lampros Tech delivers.
The Unichain dashboard is one example of how Lampros Tech structures blockchain data into production-ready analytics.
From indexing raw logs to cross-chain dashboards, we deliver clarity that protocols and DAOs rely on. To go deeper, explore our Web3 Data Analytics services.
Astha Baheti
Growth Lead
