Ethereum

Ethereum processed 18.5 transactions per second over a 588-second sample taken September 5, 2026, with an average block time of 12.0s. DefiLlama reported $49.2B of total value locked on the chain that day. Users paid $11.7M in network fees over the preceding 24 hours.

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Key Facts

FamilyEVM
Launched2015
Native assetEthereum (ETH)
Developer docsethereum.org

Measured Performance

Measured September 5, 2026. Throughput from Ethereum's public node; TVL and fees from DefiLlama.
Measured TPS18.5
Sample window588 seconds
Transactions in sample10,863
Average block time12.0s
Total value locked$49.2B
Fees, last 24 hours$11.7M

50 blocks read from the chain's public JSON-RPC node.

Measured throughput over timeOne sample per daily run, newest on the right. Each point is transactions per second counted from Ethereum's own public node.
24.718.1Sep 2Sep 5Sep 2: 24.1 TPSSep 2: 24.6 TPSSep 2: 24.7 TPSSep 2: 18.1 TPSSep 2: 18.4 TPSSep 3: 20.0 TPSSep 4: 20.6 TPSSep 5: 18.5 TPS

Throughput is counted by RampAtlas from recent blocks on Ethereum's public node over the window shown, not a theoretical maximum. Total value locked and 24-hour fees come from DefiLlama. A page whose newest sample is more than 120 days old is not indexed.

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