The number of unique active ether addresses, either as sender or receiver, rose to a record high of 7.94 million on Sunday, topping the previous peak of 7.14 million reached on Jan. 16, 2018, according to data provider Glassnode.
The tally has increased by more than 100,000 in the past three days alone, taking the year-to-date growth to 86%.
https://www.coindesk.com/ethers-active-addresses-pass-2018-peakETH addresses can be done without any KYC or something related so how does this comes important/
people can create thousand of address individually , some from Bounty hunters in which tons of them actually .
and also those who are transferring their coins here and there.