Sushi vs Uni on L2
Sushiswap and Uniswap
Uniswap and Sushiswap are two popular DEXs that support many chains and tokens. Optimism, Polygon, and Aribitrum are Ethereum Layer-2 Chains and help the Scalability in Mainnet, also users can enjoy Low Fee Transactions and Swaps.
this dashboard will compare Sushiswap and Uniswap on these three L2 Chains.
Scopes
- Swaps and Swappers Count Weekly and Cumulative
- New Pools over time
- Market share in terms of Users and Swaps
Method
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there are specific tables for Sushiswap for chains
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for uniswap I found the data using the contact addresses:
0x68b3465833fb72a70ecdf485e0e4c7bd8665fc45, 0xe592427a0aece92de3edee1f18e0157c05861564
🟠Observations
- Sushiswap/Polygon with 585K unique users has the highest number of users, but most of them are inactive
- the Sushi/Optimism with only 4.4K users has the lowest user base
- the other four Chain/DEXs user bases are so close and have between 200K - 226K users
- weekly new users on Sushi/Polygon is about 5.7 percent, but Uniswap/Arbitrum, Uniswap/Optimism, Sushiswap/Arbitrum, and Uniswap/Polygon have a close market share of new users with about 23 percent on average
- Uniswap with about 70% of new users’ market share is higher than Sushiswap
🟠Observations
- Until November 2021, only Suhsiswap/Polygon existed and had above 50K unique users each week
- Uniswap by supporting Polygon in Jan could gain 35 percent of the market share and Sushiswap/Polygon declined to 57 percent
- as of today, the Sushiswap/Polygon has the lowest market share after Sushiswap/Optimism
- Uniswap has a higher market share of active wallets
🟠Observations
- Sushiswap on Polygon is the oldest DEX/Chain among these chains, and the next one is Uniswap on Optimism launched in November 2021, Sushiswap and Uniswap added the Arbitrum on April 18th
- The highest rate of market share in terms of swap count belonged to Polygon/Sushiswap, but after each new chain’s support, the market share decreased, and Uniswap by adding Polygon, could gain a big share of the market in Jan 2022.
- the lowest market share belongs to Optimism/Sushiswap with under 0.2 percent, the next one is Polygon/Sushiswap at 5.5 percent
- Uniswap with about 70 percent of Swaps market share is higher than Sushiswap
💡 Conclusion
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The highest rate of market share in terms of swap count belonged to Polygon/Sushiswap, but after each new chain’s support, the market share decreased, and Uniswap by adding Polygon, could gain a big share of the market in Jan 2022.
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currently, the lowest market share belongs to Optimism/Sushiswap with under 0.2 percent, the next one is Polygon/Sushiswap at 5.5 percent
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Uniswap with about 70 percent of Swaps market share is higher than Sushiswap
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as of today, the Sushiswap/Polygon has the lowest market share after Sushiswap/Optimism
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Uniswap has a higher market share of active wallets
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Sushiswap/Polygon with 585K unique users has the highest number of users, but most of them are inactive, Sushi/Optimism with 4.4K has the lowest user base
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Uniswap/Arbitrum, Uniswap/Optimism, Sushiswap/Arbitrum, and Uniswap/Polygon user base are so close and have between 200K - 226K users
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Uniswap with about 70% of new users’ market share is higher than Sushiswap
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Unisawp/Polygon with 3221 Pools has the highest number of pools with a big difference
🟠Observations
- Unisawp/Polygon with 3221 Pools has the highest number of pools with a big difference
- the second one is Sushiswap/Polygon with 858 pools
- Uniswap/Polygon on average has 60 new pools
- recently Uniswap/Arbitrum could gain a good number of new pools with about 18 pools per week on average

