Who's Missing Attestations? The Staker Performance Gap
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One validator missing an attestation isn't a crisis. A few hundred validators missing 1 in 8 attestations, every slot, for three months straight — that's a different story. And it's concentrated in a way that the aggregate participation numbers don't show.
The xatu dataset tracks missed attestations at the entity level. When you sort by miss rate, a clear hierarchy emerges — and a handful of operators sit far outside the expected range.