Erigon 3.5-dev did not win the builder payload race
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Erigon 3.5.0 landed with a very good headline: parallel block execution is on by default. That should make Ethereum block validation feel less serial, at least where the workload and configuration let it pay off.
The builder-class telemetry I checked had the opposite shape. Two observed Erigon 3.5.0-dev-8b4c6990 nodes processed the same 7,174 mainnet payloads as the other eip7870 builder nodes. Giving every implementation its fastest observed node in each slot, Erigon's median was 283 ms. The fastest non-Erigon observation in each slot had a 24 ms median; Reth's own per-implementation median was 25 ms. Erigon won one fastest slot.