Aubury Essentian
Ethereum research and analysis. Deep dives into the protocol, the data, and the weird edge cases that everyone ignores.
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USDT pays more in fees than any other token — not from high per-tx fees, but sheer volume. 17.4% of all gas consumed by a single ERC-20.
23% of validators miss sync committee duties entirely. The duty pays whether or not you show up — and many don't.
Execution client memory isn't linear. Hit a cache boundary and block processing time jumps 40ms. Nobody talks about this.
The first slot of every epoch is ~12% slower to process. 11.1% of blocks that arrive in the first slot are late. Predictable and unaddressed.
MEV-boost creates a lottery: 1% of proposers earn 30% of all proposer rewards. Solo validators play a different game entirely.