MegaETH Daily Digest — April 13, 2026
At a Glance
- Network↑: 26.2 TPS average, up +4.0% from April 12 (25.2)
- Volume↑: 2.27M total transactions, up from 2.18M
- Users↓: 3.3K unique wallets, down from 3.5K
- Top app: Crossy Fluffle led with 11.1K txs after a +336% 24h jump
- Health: Normal (0.5% failed transactions)
- Signal: Brief performance bursts hit 85.0 TPS (World Markets - Exchange) and 226.1 Mgas/s (0x3a5f… contract), worth a closer look on the explorers
MegaETH activity stayed broadly steady in a cautious broader market tape, with a mild Monday pickup in throughput and total transactions. The more notable story wasn’t the baseline (mid‑20s TPS), but a couple of short, sharp spikes tied to specific contracts.
The Week So Far
The last two weeks have been a tight band: daily averages mostly mid‑20s TPS, with the busiest day on April 7 (27.1 avg / 33.1 peak) and the typical weekend dip (April 12 at 25.2 avg TPS; April 11 at 24.9). Week-over-week, the network’s average is essentially flat-to-slightly higher (26.1 vs 25.5 TPS).
On the “actual usage” side, total daily transactions have held a consistent ~2.0M–2.3M range recently, including 2.27M on April 13. Unique wallets have been choppier and generally softer: April 13 came in at 3.3K, and most recent days have sat in the 3–6K band (with an older outlier at 10.2K on March 19). Fail rates remain low and stable overall, with April 13 at 0.5%, well below anything that would read as systemic stress.
For quick context on what’s driving activity, the Dashboard and Insights pages are the fastest way to confirm whether a “busy day” is broad-based or concentrated into a few hot contracts.
The Day
April 13’s hourly rhythm was mostly steady mid‑20s TPS through the morning, then a clear afternoon lift (13:00–16:00 UTC ranged 27.4–28.6 TPS), finishing with a late jump at 22:00 UTC (30.6 TPS). Those visible moves sit on top of even shorter-lived bursts that pushed much higher for brief windows.
On apps, Crossy Fluffle dominated raw transaction count at 11.1K txs (1,092 Mgas) but only 62 unique callers—consistent with either highly repeat usage loops or automation-heavy interaction patterns. That’s reinforced by a per-hour spike flagged around 01:00 UTC (8,567 tx/h), and a +336% volume jump versus the prior 24h window.
The most “user-wide” activity in the top set came from:
That’s a healthier distribution signal than the gaming contracts with single-digit callers, and it matches the sense that routine DeFi usage is continuing even when broader sentiment is defensive.
On the gas side, GMX stood out: 1.9K txs but 9,612 Mgas with 95 unique callers—much heavier execution per transaction than the rest of the leaderboard. If you’re sanity-checking what specifically consumed blockspace, it’s worth cross-referencing with the Analytics and contract explorer drill-downs.
Two contract-level bursts were the clearest “mechanical” drivers of the day:
- World Markets - Exchange saw a late surge, including 23,452 tx/h around 22:00 UTC and a short window where network TPS peaked at 85.0 TPS with World Markets - Exchange as the top contributor (1,511 tx in that spike window). See: World Markets - Exchange.
- Network gas spiked to 226.1 Mgas/s at 09:18 UTC, attributed to a single top contributor contract doing 226.0 Mgas in that window: 0x3a5f0cd7d62452b7f899b2a5758bfa57be0de478. That profile often corresponds to a small number of very heavy calls rather than broad user traffic.
Other notable “movers” by volume growth included:
- MegaETH - USDm: 4,276 txs in 24h (+265%), plus an activity spike to 867 tx/h around 05:00 UTC
- Contract growth spikes worth inspecting in the Contracts Explorer: 0xea5df9b3872a80b05b878c09776a559bd8d4e6ac (1,876 txs, +1346%), and 0x81a155f4c9254862dad82faddea10746ec061760 (581 txs, +5710%)
Health Check
Network-level reliability stayed clean. April 13 recorded 12.2K failed transactions out of 2.27M total, for a 0.5% failure rate (slightly higher than April 12’s 0.4%, but still firmly in the normal band).
The more interesting “health” read-through is concentration risk: the day included extremely spiky TPS and gas moments driven by single contracts (World Markets - Exchange for TPS; 0x3a5f… for gas). That doesn’t imply user-facing problems on its own—these patterns can come from bots, contention bursts, or intentionally-throttled flows—but it’s a good reminder to look at success/failure breakdowns at the contract level when investigating anomalies.
The Takeaway
April 13 was a steady baseline day with a modest Monday lift in throughput and total transactions (26.2 TPS, 2.27M tx), while unique wallets dipped to 3.3K. The standout dynamics were concentrated: Crossy Fluffle’s transaction burst on the app side, and sharp, contract-driven spikes (World Markets - Exchange; 0x3a5f… gas) on the network side.
On the Road to TGE, nothing moved into “fees criterion” territory—no app cleared $50K/day, with Cap at $13K and Kumbaya at $6K—so the day’s Kumbaya usage looks more like steady engagement than fee-breakout momentum. Progress remains visible but incremental on the public tracker at https://www.megaeth.com/token.