ethPandaOps

Today is National Panda Day.

Read the blog post for all the details here: ethpandaops.io/posts/introduc…

We tested 44+ models across EVM execution, consensus state transitions, fork choice, and more. Anti-memorization is baked in. Inputs are mutated from the official spec fixtures so training data is ruled out. The results were... surprising. Check it out: ethiq.ethpandaops.io

It turns out some AI models can step through EVM bytecode in their head. We built EthIQ, a new benchmark to test how well models actually understand Ethereum protocol internals. 325 questions across two evaluation modes, and one alive canary 🐦 Read more 👇

If you want to build on it or have ideas for other aggregations, let us know. Join the Xatu Telegram Group: t.me/+JanoQFu_nO8yN…

Also shipping a Gas Repricing Simulator. Pick a block, change any opcode cost, and re-execute it. See which transactions break, which exceed the gas limit, and which flip between success and failure. lab.ethpandaops.io/ethereum/execu…

New in Xatu: Execution trace data. Per-opcode gas consumption for blocks/txs. 9 new tables covering call frames, opcode gas, and daily/hourly aggregations. Blog post + schema docs: ethpandaops.io/posts/evm-gas-…

Let's welcome our 4 new hires to our team! They're currently on-boarding.

New feature now available in The Lab slot deep dive 🚢🚢 Trace the timings of a slot from all the Xatu nodes. Includes MEV bids, block arrivals, execution times (where available), and data availability time. Link in next tweet.

While it's tempting to jump to the conclusion that the network supports more blobs - this would be very premature. This data is a single chapter in a vastly complex book. To these entities playing timing games - keep an eye on your infra with blob count increases! More to come!

Now that we've established this relationship we can check from a blob count POV. Boom! The green line is holding up as the blob count increases. The red line shows the cause of our pain from the first chart.

BPO2 landed last week. It bumped the max blobs per block to 21. We've been going through the data. Initial analysis doesn't look good! Have a look at this scary chart. But there might be more to this story.. Link below!

Interested in L1 scaling, Data, Testing, Forks? Or just monitoring the situation with the boys? Well, ethPandaops has a post for you!

⏰ BPO2 lands on Mainnet on Wed 07/01/2026 at 01:01:11 GMT (in ~13 hours) - raising the max blob count to 21 No preparation or action is required, but we advise all node operators to monitor their infrastructure around fork time View the countdown: lab.ethpandaops.io/ethereum/forks…