Red Ethereum breaks records while a risk keeps the ecosystem on alert

After the activation of the Pectra update on May 7, 2025, the Ethereum Ecosystem (ETH) has experienced notorious growth in its adoption, reflected in four historical metric records ON-CHAINaccording to data from the analysis site Grow the Pie. However, the risk of phishing in the network has increased thanks to the implementation of the “smart wallets.”

In May, Ethereum reached 51 million active accountsits historical maximum according to the source stated. This growth indicates a booming adoption, promoted, among other factors, by pein and its new possibilities introduced.

Additionally, the network, including its base layer and second -layer solutions (L2), prosecuted 706 million transactions in Mayexceeding January 701 million.

Throughput: Ascent efficiency

He Throughputor processing capacity, measures the amount of operations that Ethereum can handle per second, expressed in gas per second (gas/s). Gas is a unit that quantifies the Computer effort required To execute intelligent transactions or contracts on the network, from a simple sending of Ether to complex interactions with decentralized applications.

In May 2025, this metric reached a 76.5 million gas record per second (Mgas/s), exceeding 64 mgas/s recorded in April. This increase demonstrates that Ethereum, after the tong update, prroces a greater volume of operations in less time.

Know the Throughput It is important because it indicates the efficiency and scalability of the network and allows to handle more transactions simultaneouslyreducing bottlenecks and improving the experience of users and developers.

Network data: New Maximum

The metric known as “published data” measures the total volume of information sent to the Ethereum availability layer, which consists of Ethereum Calldata and Blobs.

COLLDATA Includes additional transaction data, such as instructions for intelligent contracts, while BLOBSintroduced by the Dencun and Improved update by sirty, serve to store second -layer networks.

These Blobs allow L2 to publish large volumes of compressed information in the Ethereum base layer at a lower cost, relieving the storage load in the main network and guaranteeing that the data remains accessible to verification.

In May 2025, the measurement of “published data” reached A historical maximum of 99 gigabytes (GB), overcoming the 83 GB recorded in months as March and last January, as well as in December 2024. That information can be seen in the following Grow The Pie graph:

This increase reflects intensive use of BLOBS and COLLDATAimportant measurements since they indicate Ethereum’s ability to manage an expanding ecosystem where L2 handle decentralized applications with high data demand, from finance to games ON-CHAIN.

Ethereum growing, but with an important alert

As cryptootics notified it, although most of Ethereum’s first symptoms were positive after the implementation of pein, from the first day a striking alert linked to attacks of Phishing automated.

And it is that users began to Report risks of loss of funds With the implementation (Improvement Proposal 7702, EIP-7702) of External Accounts (EOA), also called “Smart Wallets”. These risks were also indicated by Wintermute, an analysis platform in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, which corroborated that the delegation of shares for intelligent contracts is being exploited by hackers, although for now they fail to drain user funds.