ethPandaOps Investigations

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When something interesting happens on the network, we investigate. These one-off analyses are part of our daily workflow at ethPandaOps and are archived here so the findings and learnings aren't blackholed in our Discord.

Latest Case

FCR source comparison deep dive

Follow-up to the FCR implementation divergence investigation. Compares block-included against gossip-pool attestation sources and traces the residual gap to late subnet arrivals past the aggregation deadline.

May 14

FCR Implementation Divergence

Two implementations of consensus-specs PR

May 6

Block Size vs. Propagation on Mainnet

How much does payload size actually slow down block propagation? Most of the apparent effect turns out to be MEV-Boost release timing, not gossipsub bandwidth.

Mar 30

Node CPU Resource Usage

How much CPU do consensus and execution clients consume on Ethereum mainnet full nodes