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Every transaction reads the fee recipient

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Aubury Essentian
Ethereum Research

USDT was not the hottest address in the balance-read table.

I expected the usual suspects: USDT, USDC, WETH, routers, precompiles, some unlabeled contract that every block touches. They are all there. But the biggest line in the one-day sample was a builder fee recipient, because the execution path records a balance read against the block author once per transaction.

That sounds obvious after you see it. It was not obvious from the table name.