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  <title>alina schanz — notes</title>
  <subtitle>longer notes on onchain data, each number with the script that produced it.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-09-15T14:00:00Z</updated>
  <author><name>alina schanz</name><uri>https://alinaschanz.life/</uri></author>
  <entry>
    <title>what a dollar earns onchain this week: 3.6% on aave, 4.4% on compound, and why usds on aave earns 0.15%</title>
    <link href="https://alinaschanz.life/notes/2026-09-15-what-a-dollar-earns.html"/>
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    <published>2026-09-15T14:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-09-15T14:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>supply and borrow rates read from the aave v3, spark and compound v3 contracts at one block: seventeen pools, from 0.15% to 4.40% for a stablecoin, and the utilization behind each rate.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>an hour of ethereum's blob space cost $1.94. who bought it</title>
    <link href="https://alinaschanz.life/notes/2026-09-15-an-hour-of-blob-space.html"/>
    <id>https://alinaschanz.life/notes/2026-09-15-an-hour-of-blob-space.html</id>
    <published>2026-09-15T13:10:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-09-15T13:10:00Z</updated>
    <summary>1,576 blobs in 297 blocks, 5.3 a block against a target of 14, at a fee on the floor. robinhood chain ahead of base, an inbox nobody has named, and 49 people sharing multicall3.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>week 38 in numbers: a 6.3-gwei spike, the same two pegs off, and $566m that went in circles</title>
    <link href="https://alinaschanz.life/notes/2026-09-15-week-38-in-numbers.html"/>
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    <published>2026-09-15T12:30:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-09-15T12:30:00Z</updated>
    <summary>the second weekly set: a 6.3-gwei spike in a week that cost 0.061 gwei at the median, nine stablecoin pegs with the same two off, and an hour of large transfers where $566m went in circles inside single blocks.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>week 37 in numbers: gas by the hour, nine pegs, and $429m that never left</title>
    <link href="https://alinaschanz.life/notes/2026-09-08-week-37-in-numbers.html"/>
    <id>https://alinaschanz.life/notes/2026-09-08-week-37-in-numbers.html</id>
    <published>2026-09-08T12:10:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-09-08T12:10:00Z</updated>
    <summary>base fee by hour of day, nine stablecoin pegs, and one hour of large transfers where the biggest move was a flash loan.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>0.07 gwei. what an empty mainnet costs</title>
    <link href="https://alinaschanz.life/notes/2026-09-07-gas-at-0-07-gwei.html"/>
    <id>https://alinaschanz.life/notes/2026-09-07-gas-at-0-07-gwei.html</id>
    <published>2026-09-07T21:30:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-09-07T21:30:00Z</updated>
    <summary>base fee at the floor, tvl still on L1, greed at 71 while the price goes nowhere.</summary>
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