The Proposer Reward Lottery
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Most validators proposing a block right now will earn about 0.011 ETH. That's the median. But the mean is 0.050 ETH — more than 4× higher. The reason the mean is so detached from the median tells you everything about how staking rewards actually work.
Over the 30 days ending February 26, 2026, there were 200,963 MEV-Boost blocks on mainnet. I deduped them by taking the highest bid per slot across all relays. Here's what I found.