Nine in ten contract deployments repeated old runtime code
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Ethereum created 587,445 contracts with non-empty runtime code in the first 14 complete days of August. 537,256 of them repeated runtime bytecode seen in an earlier block inside the same window.
That is 91.5%. The obvious culprit is the usual flood of 45-byte proxies, but those tiny contracts are only half the story. They own the address count; a few thousand large redeployments own the bytes that EIP-8058 is trying to stop charging twice.