OP and POL also lost more than a quarter over matched four-week windows, while Arbitrum One's active-address count rose.

The fee-funded increase compares with a roughly 3% baseline and rewards stake held during the window, rather than when the fees accrued.

Hot on the heels of Synthetix’s launch of staking services on Layer 2 provider Optimism, Aave has shipped its own iteration of a scaling solution. With the launch, Aave’s aTokens, minted when users deposit digital assets into the lending protocol, can now be ported to the Matic Network, a version of the Layer 2 solution,…