findings
the finding of each note as the note states it, newest first, with a link to the note and to its proofs.
- 05what a dollar earns onchain this week: 3.6% on aave, 4.4% on compound, and why usds on aave earns 0.15%
a stablecoin dollar earned 0.15% to 4.40%, depending on the market and on how much of the pool borrowers had taken. usdc paid 4.40% on compound v3 and 3.63% on aave v3.
- 04an hour of ethereum's blob space cost $1.94. who bought it
the hour cost every rollup on ethereum together 0.00078 eth, $1.94. robinhood chain posted more blobs than base.
- 03week 38 in numbers: a 6.3-gwei spike, the same two pegs off, and $566m that went in circles
the median base fee fell from 0.071 to 0.061 gwei while one block hit 6.3. frax and lusd stayed off the peg. of $1.05bn in large transfers, $566m was 18 loans that went out and came back inside a single block.
- 02week 37 in numbers: gas by the hour, nine pegs, and $429m that never left
the priciest hour cost 4.2 times the cheapest. seven of nine stablecoins sat within fifteen basis points of a dollar. the largest transfer of the hour, 5,474 wbtc or $429m, was a flash loan that never left its contract.
- 010.07 gwei. what an empty mainnet costs
at 0.068 gwei a plain transfer cost a fraction of a cent and a swap two or three cents. defillama put 8.7 times as much value on ethereum as on the next chain.