Fees at the floor, blocks built by a few
— 4 hours 44 minutes on Ethereum
Ark.AI report engine · blocks #25,679,006–#25,680,422 · data from 2026-08-04 03:58–08:42 UTC
3 key takeaways
- 1,417 blocks and 603,375 transactions, or 35.5 transactions per second.
- Gas usage sat at 50.5%, right on target, so the base fee stayed at 0.112 Gwei on average.
- The top 4 block proposers built 87% of blocks. Concentration (HHI) was 2,729, which is high.
1. Throughput: steady 12-second blocks
The median time between blocks was 12 seconds, and the longest gap was 24 seconds (one missed slot). Blocks held 425.8 transactions on average, with a median of 384. The busiest stretch was the 10 minutes around 05:28 UTC, with 26,810 transactions.
2. Fees: the 0.1 Gwei era
The base fee moved between 0.054 and 0.196 Gwei. The median gas price people actually paid was 0.127 Gwei, and only the most urgent 5% paid 2.07 Gwei or more. 4.74 ETH was burned during this window.
3. What's in the transactions: 7 in 10 are simple transfers
Simple transfers made up 68.5% and contract calls 31.4%. The addresses that received the most transactions were the USDT contract (52,562) and the USDC contract (23,915), so stablecoin movement is a big share of network use. We also saw 5,806 EIP-7702 wallet delegation transactions.
4. Block production: the top proposer built 44.7%
95 proposers built blocks, but the top one built 633 (44.7%) and the second 332 (23.4%). An HHI of 2,729 is above the 2,500 line for a concentrated market.
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