As a way to celebrate and show the growth that has happened for Monero across the past year on this, the 8th anniversary of the Monero project, I wanted to take a snapshot of statistics and social media posts to highlight this growth.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of ways in which Monero grew, and some of the most important growth came in increased acceptance and adoption of Monero for donations and payments:
- [Merchants accepting Monero for payment](https://www.getmonero.org/community/merchants/)
- [FOSS Projects and Pro-Privacy Organizations accepting Monero for donations](https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/foss-donations/)
One of the most important ways we can deduce what has been happening in Monero is to look at the (thankfully, sparse) blockchain data available publicly.
Each section will highlight the previous year (04/2020 through 04/2021) as well as the current year (04/2021 through 04/2022) to give year-over-year comparisons and perspective.
## Transactions
***04/2020 through 04/2021:***
- Monero transactions grew from ~10,000tx per day to ~23,000tx per day
- There were ***5,868,096*** total transactions, for an average of ***16,076*** transactions per day for the year
Monero's on-chain usage grew ***154%*** YoY! Every one of these transactions was done via private-by-default transactions that protect sender, receiver, and amounts.
## Blockchain Growth
***04/2020 through 04/2021:***
- Monero's blockchain grew ***13.34GB*** in a year.
- There were ***262,588*** total blocks, for an average size of ***53.30KB*** per block for the year.
- There were ***5,868,096*** total transactions, for an average of ***2.38KB*** per transaction.
Monero's annual inflation decreased ***34.3%*** YoY while daily emission dropped ***42.96%*** and is rapidly approaching the [tail emission](https://localmonero.co/knowledge/monero-tail-emission) of ***0.6XMR*** per block!
- Monero's main subreddit, [r/Monero](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero) gained ***~43,000*** subscribers, going from ***~168,000*** to ***~211,000*** subscribers over the year.
- Monero's main subreddit, [r/Monero](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero) gained ***~46,000*** subscribers, going from ***~211,000*** to ***257,000*** subscribers over the year.
If you see something missing from this post that was a major highlight of the year, please feel free to open an issue on [Github](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site) and tag @reemuru, and I will update ASAP.
# Resources Used
Here is a quick list of the sources and tools I used to gather these statistics:
-`monero-blockchain-stats`, using some hints from the following link for plotting:
