{"id":67410,"date":"2022-09-20T12:21:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T09:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=67410"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:29:46","slug":"almost-20-of-blocks-on-the-updated-ethereum-are-produced-using-mev-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/almost-20-of-blocks-on-the-updated-ethereum-are-produced-using-mev-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 20% of blocks on the updated Ethereum are produced using MEV-boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>18% of blocks in the Ethereum network were generated using MEV, providing validators with additional staking rewards. Developer Elias Simos obtained these results after <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-activates-the-merge-blockchain-shifts-to-pos\">The Merge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We looked at the first ~24k blocks post-Merge and compared the performance of block proposers that are running mev-boost vs those that aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>This is what we found \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ko2gY6IBWT\">pic.twitter.com\/ko2gY6IBWT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u039elias Simos (@eliasimos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eliasimos\/status\/1571764671014928384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a <span data-descr=\"modified version for Proof-of-Stake\" class=\"old_tooltip\">MEV-boost<\/span>, validators using it were able to earn 122% more. The blocks they produced contained 41.4% more transactions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, MEV-boost helped eliminate empty and skipped blocks. Among validators not using this functionality, the analyst found such instances in 1.2% and 1.5% of cases respectively.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mevboost.org\/\"> mevboost.org<\/a>, the Flashbots service holds the MEV leadership with a share of 80.98%.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 19.02% are accounted for by six other relays \u2014 bloXroute Max Profit, bloXroute Ethical, bloXroute Regulated, Blocknative and Eden.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/izobrazhenie_2022-09-20_121732877.png\" alt=\"Almost 20% of blocks on the updated Ethereum network are produced using MEV-boost\" class=\"wp-image-185368\" width=\"840\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/izobrazhenie_2022-09-20_121732877.png 852w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/izobrazhenie_2022-09-20_121732877-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/izobrazhenie_2022-09-20_121732877-768x259.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Data: mevboost.org<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Such dependence raises concerns about a single point of failure for the ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Santiment&#8217;s data show that 46.15% of all PoS nodes in Ethereum are attributed to two addresses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcca According to our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a> Post Merge Inflation dashboard, 46.15% of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/proofofstake?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#proofofstake<\/a> nodes for storing data, processing transactions, and adding new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blockchain?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blockchain<\/a> blocks can be attributed to just two addresses. This heavy dominance by these addresses is something to watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KQdFNgGloD\">pic.twitter.com\/KQdFNgGloD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Santiment (@santimentfeed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/santimentfeed\/status\/1570339602346684416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In September, analysts at Nansen found that Coinbase, Kraken, Binance and Lido Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nansen-four-platforms-control-more-than-61-of-staked-ethereum\">account for 61.25%<\/a> of all staked Ether.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Bitfinex and Tether, said that a major upgrade <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/paolo-ardoino-doubts-ethereums-prospects-after-the-merge\">does not solve Ethereum&#8217;s problems<\/a>, including decentralisation and scalability.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\u201d\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\" noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18% of blocks in the Ethereum network were generated using MEV, providing validators with additional staking rewards. Developer Elias Simos obtained these results after analysing the first 24,500 blocks following The Merge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,1231],"class_list":["post-67410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-mev"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67412,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions\/67412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}