AUTO REPORTETHEREUM MAINNETBLK 25,679,006–25,680,422

Fees at the floor, blocks built by a few: 4h44m on Ethereum

Ark.AI report engine · data 2026-08-04 03:58–08:42 UTC · template-generated

01 · THROUGHPUT

603,375 txns in 1,417 blocks · 35.5 TPS

02 · FEES

Gas 50.5% of target · base fee 0.112 gwei

03 · CONCENTRATION

Top 4 producers built 87% · HHI 2,729

1. Throughput: steady 12-second blocks

Median block time was 12 seconds; the longest gap was 24 seconds (one missed slot). Blocks held 425.8 transactions on average, median 384. The busiest 10 minutes, around 05:28 UTC, carried 26,810 transactions.

2. Fees: the 0.1 gwei regime

The base fee ranged 0.054–0.196 gwei. Median gas price paid was 0.127 gwei; only the most urgent 5% paid above 2.07 gwei. 4.74 ETH was burned over the window.

BASE FEE · GWEI · 10M AVG

3. Composition: 7 in 10 are plain transfers

Plain transfers were 68.5% and contract calls 31.4%. The two most-called addresses were the USDT contract (52,562 txns) and the USDC contract (23,915), so stablecoin movement is a large share of usage. 5,806 EIP-7702 delegation transactions appeared.

4. Block production: one builder at 44.7%

95 addresses produced blocks, but the top one built 633 (44.7%) and the second 332 (23.4%). An HHI of 2,729 sits above the 2,500 threshold for a concentrated market.

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