- What does the weekly and monthly active addresses chart show?
- Two rolling counts in one chart: the weekly line (WAU) is the number of unique addresses active in the trailing 7 days, the monthly line (MAU) the unique addresses in the trailing 30 days. Both chains are drawn on the same dates — the original Proof-of-Work chain (the established chain) solid, QRL 2.0 as a faint dashed overlay — so you can compare the established chain against the emerging one. Every address counts once per window regardless of how many transactions it made.
- Why use rolling windows instead of calendar weeks or months?
- A rolling window updates every day and never resets on a Sunday or the 1st of the month, so a burst of new activity shows up immediately instead of waiting for the next calendar period. It is the industry standard for WAU/MAU, from web analytics to on-chain data providers.
- How is this different from the daily active addresses chart?
- The daily active addresses chart counts unique addresses per single day, so it swings with day-to-day volatility. These rolling 7 and 30-day counts smooth that noise and reveal the medium-term trend: whether the pool of wallets that comes back within a week or a month is growing or shrinking.
- Why is the monthly line always at or above the weekly line?
- Every address active in the last 7 days was by definition also active in the last 30 days, so the 30-day set always contains the 7-day set. The gap between the two lines is informative: a wide gap means many wallets return monthly but not weekly.
- What counts as an active address?
- An address is active on a day when it sends or receives a real user transaction — value transfers, token transfers or contract calls. Protocol payouts do not count: validator withdrawals on QRL 2.0 and block rewards on the Proof-of-Work chain are excluded, so staking or mining alone never inflates the line.
- Do active addresses equal active users?
- No. One person can control many addresses, and a single exchange address can serve thousands of users, so address counts are a proxy for adoption rather than a head-count. Industry analyses estimate real users at a fraction of active addresses — read the trend, not the absolute number.
- What is the WAU/MAU stickiness ratio?
- Stickiness divides a shorter active window by a longer one — here weekly over monthly (WAU ÷ MAU) — to show what share of the monthly wallet base returns within a given week. A higher ratio points to habitual, recurring use rather than one-off visits; analysts often treat roughly 20% and above as healthy engagement. Read it next to the absolute lines, since a small network can post a high ratio on thin volume.
- How is this different from new addresses?
- Active addresses count every wallet that transacted in the window, whether brand new or long established. New addresses count only wallets transacting for the very first time. Active growth driven by returning wallets signals retention; growth driven by new ones signals onboarding. The new vs returning addresses chart splits each day into exactly those two groups.