One payload became four copies in beacon API data
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One beacon_api_eth_v3_validator_block observer made Ethereum payloads look four times larger than they were.
In a two-hour mainnet sample, 161 prepared blocks from that path matched the canonical execution payload for their slot. The prepared-block rows reported 213,035 transaction entries. The matching canonical blocks contained 51,254 transactions: a 4.156x multiplier.