# OP Mainnet Stats: Gas, Activity and Superchain Revenue

> OP Mainnet stats by day: transactions, active addresses, gas, fee vault revenue, the Superchain revenue share paid to the Optimism Collective and OP buybacks.

Markdown copy of https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/op-mainnet-stats

**Question:** How busy is OP Mainnet, and how much revenue do it and the Superchain send to the Optimism Collective?

- Kind: Dashboard in Voltfin Vantage
- Topic: [Layer 2s](https://voltfincrypto.com/topics/layer-2)
- Chains: OP Mainnet, Ethereum
- Status: Planned. The data is not published yet, so this page states no figure; each figure will open its receipt when it is.

OP Mainnet is the original OP Stack chain: an optimistic rollup on Ethereum governed by the Optimism Collective, with permissionless fault proofs. This dashboard reads its blocks for daily transactions, active addresses and gas. It splits each fee into the execution part and the L1 data part that pays for posting batches to Ethereum.

OP Mainnet is also where the Superchain's revenue is counted. Its own net sequencer revenue goes to the Collective, and other Superchain members pay a share of theirs: the greater of a cut of gross fees and a larger cut of net on-chain profit. The dashboard reads those payments as transactions, chain by chain, along with the OP purchases governance approved in early 2026 to make from that revenue.

Fee vault balances, withdrawals and revenue share payments are all public on OP Mainnet and Ethereum, so every figure here names the block and the transaction it was read from and can be checked by anyone.

## Blueprint

### Activity and gas

Transactions, active addresses and fees on OP Mainnet, with each fee split by kind.

- **Transactions, latest day** (count): Transactions in OP Mainnet blocks on the latest complete UTC day, leaving out the L1 attributes deposit that opens each block.
- **Active addresses, latest day** (count): Distinct addresses that sent at least one transaction on OP Mainnet on the latest complete UTC day.
- **Base fee now** (gwei): The base fee per gas of the latest OP Mainnet block, from its header.
- **L1 data share of fees** (%): The share of fees paid on the latest complete day that was the L1 data fee, against execution and operator fees.
- **Transactions and active addresses by day** (count): Daily transactions and daily active addresses on OP Mainnet over the selected period.
- **Fees by day and kind** (ETH): Daily fees split into base fee, priority fee, L1 data fee and operator fee, from receipts.

### Revenue and the Superchain

OP Mainnet's net revenue, the revenue share other chains pay and the OP it buys.

- **Net sequencer revenue, 30 days** (ETH): OP Mainnet's fee vault revenue over the last 30 days minus what it paid Ethereum for batches and dispute games.
- **Revenue share received, 30 days** (ETH): Revenue share payments the Collective received from other Superchain chains over the last 30 days, from their transactions.
- **Revenue share by paying chain** (ETH): Revenue share received each month, stacked by the chain that paid it, with each chain's latest payment marked.
- **OP purchases**: Each OP purchase made from Superchain revenue: date, ETH spent, OP bought and the transaction, with months without a purchase listed.

Filters: Period (Last week, month, quarter or year).

## How it will be measured

- Transactions and active addresses are counted per UTC day from OP Mainnet blocks, leaving out the L1 attributes deposit that opens each block.
- Fees are gas used times effective gas price plus the L1 fee and operator fee in each receipt. OP Mainnet does not burn its base fee; it is paid into the BaseFeeVault predeploy.
- Revenue is the inflow to the SequencerFeeVault, BaseFeeVault, L1FeeVault and OperatorFeeVault predeploys, read as balances at day-end blocks plus withdrawals.
- Superchain revenue share is read from the payment transactions each member chain sends to the Collective's revenue addresses, matched to the chain and the period each payment covers.
- OP purchases are the treasury's buy transactions, valued at the block they executed; a month without a purchase is shown as one, never filled in.

## Data it needs

- `chain_activity_daily` (to build): Transactions, active sending addresses, new addresses, contracts created and gas used on each chain per day, counted from blocks and transactions.
- `gas_blocks` (to build): Base fee, priority fee percentiles, gas used and gas limit for each block on fee-market chains, for a near-live gas tracker.
- `l2_activity_daily` (to build): Per layer 2 per day: transactions, active addresses, fees users paid on the L2, and what the L2 paid Ethereum to settle and post data.
- `protocol_revenue_daily` (to build): Fees users paid to each protocol and the part kept by the protocol or its token holders, per protocol and day, including buybacks.
- `native_prices_daily` (to build): Reference prices of major assets read from on-chain oracle feeds (Chainlink latestRoundData) at each day's last block, with each round's update time.
- Source: OP Mainnet blocks and receipts: gas_used, effective_gas_price, l1Fee and operator fee
- Source: Balances and withdrawals of the SequencerFeeVault, BaseFeeVault, L1FeeVault and OperatorFeeVault predeploys
- Source: GasPriceOracle predeploy scalars at each block
- Source: Revenue share payments from Superchain member chains to the Collective's revenue addresses
- Source: OP purchase transactions made under the buyback pilot
- Source: Batcher blob transactions and dispute game transactions for OP Mainnet on Ethereum
- Source: Chainlink ETH/USD and OP/USD feeds at day-end blocks

## Questions

### Does OP Mainnet burn fees?

No. As on every OP Stack chain, the base fee is paid into a fee vault instead of being burned. OP Mainnet's vaults collect the base fee, priority fees, the L1 data fee and the operator fee, and its net sequencer revenue goes to the Optimism Collective.

### What is the Superchain revenue share?

Chains that join the Superchain agree to pay the Optimism Collective part of their sequencer revenue: the greater of a small cut of gross fees and a larger cut of net on-chain profit, after what they pay Ethereum. OP Mainnet contributes its whole net sequencer revenue.

### Does Base still pay the Superchain revenue share?

Base was long the largest payer. In February 2026 it announced a move to its own Base-operated stack, compatible with the OP Stack specification, and Optimism said the earlier revenue share would not continue. The dashboard shows each chain's payments up to its latest one.

### Does Superchain revenue buy back OP?

Governance approved a pilot in early 2026 that uses half of incoming Superchain revenue for monthly OP purchases, paused in months when revenue falls below a set floor. The dashboard reads each purchase from the treasury's transactions and lists the months without one.

### What is the L1 data fee on OP Mainnet?

It is what a transaction pays for the bytes it adds to the batch posted to Ethereum. It is estimated from the transaction's compressed size, Ethereum's base fee, its blob base fee and scalars set in the GasPriceOracle predeploy. The receipt shows it as the L1 fee.

## Glossary

- **Superchain**: A network of OP Stack chains that share upgrades and governance oversight and pay part of their revenue to the Optimism Collective.
- **Optimism Collective**: The governance of OP Mainnet and the Superchain, made up of the Token House of OP holders and the Citizens' House.
- **L1 attributes deposit**: The system transaction that opens every OP Stack block and records the Ethereum block it follows.
- **Fee vault**: A predeploy contract on an OP Stack chain that collects one kind of fee until it is withdrawn.

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- [OP Stack Chains: The Superchain List Compared](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/op-stack-superchain-chains)
- [Unichain Stats: Transactions, Gas and Uniswap Trading](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/unichain-stats)
- [L2 Profitability: Fees Earned vs Costs Paid to Ethereum](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/l2-profitability)
- [Crypto Token Buybacks Ranked by Amount Spent](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/crypto-token-buybacks-ranking)
- [Ethereum TPS: Mainnet and Layer 2 Transactions per Second](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/ethereum-tps)

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