I agree with you on the overhype, but if roughly 16% of active addresses are real users, then active users within the past 24 hours would be around the population of the largest city in Indiana rather than a small town.
Total unique daily wallets for Tether (USDT) down to about 80k unique wallets. This is just unique addresses - doesn't filter out bots and users with multiple wallets. You can't go more mainstream than this coin.
The stats you're referencing appear to be ETH chain only. I'm not really into NFT's, but aren't they more popular on other chains/rollups because of gas cost?
I think the active users might be at least 3x your estimates, but I could be wrong. For example, tether's market cap is >$80b and only ~$30b of that is on ETH.
Yes, which means they are using a centralized third party instead of what's being extolled as the "decentralized, trustless" ecosystem. Maybe that's not as big of a feature as it is claimed to be?
As a reminder, this is what original comment was talking about:
> The actual users on-chain is abysmal and frankly, embarrassing.
Which isn't contradictory with most interaction being on a centralized platform.
