Ethereum (ETH) Mainnet Revenue Jumps 61% to $18.52M in 30 Days

Mainnet leads a five-chain tally

Ethereum (ETH) mainnet collected $18.52 million in network revenue over the trailing 30-day window, a 61% increase on the prior comparable period. The reading comes from growthepie's on-chain dashboard, which compiles fee income for a five-chain comparison set across the Ethereum ecosystem; back-calculate the growth and the previous window comes to roughly $11.5 million. On the base layer, that income is the gas fee users pay to settle transactions and execute code directly on L1, a revenue pool that no rollup can claim for itself. Second place in the set belongs to Robinhood Chain, the brokerage's Layer 2, at $8.91 million, and it carries a second distinction: it is the only chain of the five whose revenue fell, sliding 76% over the same span. Because the figures are drawn from chain records, the window is measured on settlement data rather than self-reporting, which makes a cross-chain comparison unusually direct. No chain in the set grew faster than the mainnet in percentage terms, and none approaches its dollar lead. Fee revenue matters beyond the headline: it is the demand-side income of a network whose participants are paid from a mix of issuance and fees, so a rising fee line changes the economics of securing the chain without a single parameter changing. The tally is an income measure rather than an Ethereum price reading; the two track different things, settlement demand versus positioning, and they can move in opposite directions over a single month.

Rollups gain while one chain slides

The five-chain breakdown shows the gains were broad. Base, the largest rollup in the set, earned $4.57 million over the 30 days, 30% ahead of its prior window, which implies a little over $3.5 million before the climb. Polygon PoS took in $2.29 million, a 4.7% gain that moves it up from roughly $2.19 million, the slowest growth rate of any chain in the comparison. Arbitrum One recorded $683,300, up 59%, the second-fastest percentage increase after the mainnet itself. Every scaling network in the set except Robinhood Chain added revenue, and even the smallest line items moved in the same direction. Base's lead among the rollups is close to seven times Arbitrum One's take and roughly double Polygon's, a spread that widened as fees there rose 30%. Polygon's flatness is notable in its own right: a 4.7% rise on a $2.19 million base adds barely $100,000, which is why its dollar rank does not move even as the set grows. Robinhood Chain's own numbers give the decline its scale: $8.91 million after a 76% drop back-calculates to a prior window near $37 million, a level that would have topped the entire set a month earlier. Read that way, the chain that once led this leaderboard is now running at roughly a quarter of its former size, and its fall removed more revenue than the other four chains' combined gains added. There is a structural note in the comparison as well. Fee income on the base layer accrues inside a proof of stake economy in which each validator carries part of the settlement load, while rollup fees flow to their own sequencer operators, so the two revenue streams are not interchangeable. Base-layer demand can also produce outsized single transactions: one Curve leveraged borrow recently consumed 1.84 million gas on its own, evidence that L1 execution capacity still clears at premium pricing when large positions need settlement.

Our read is direct: the base layer remains Ethereum's dominant fee engine, by a wider margin than the ranking alone suggests. Mainnet's $18.52 million exceeds the $16.45 million combined total of the other four chains in the set, so L1 out-earns every scaling network put together. Robinhood Chain's slide is the outlier that will shape the next reading, since its prior-window level implies it was the set's largest earner a month ago. Capital flows tell a different story: US spot Ethereum (ETH) ETFs logged an eighth straight outflow day with $72.5 million in net exits even as fee income climbed. Levels sit separately in our Ethereum technical analysis. At the current run rate, the mainnet clears the combined rollup total by more than $2 million every 30 days.