{"id":262407,"date":"2022-09-15T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=262407"},"modified":"2022-09-15T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:54:05","slug":"santiment-data-shows-2-addresses-controlling-over-45-of-ethereum-transactions-post-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/santiment-data-shows-2-addresses-controlling-over-45-of-ethereum-transactions-post-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiment data shows 2 addresses controlling over 45% of Ethereum transactions post-merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two addresses have processed over 45% of Ethereum (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\">ETH<\/a>) transactions since the blockchain network completed its transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, according to Santiment data.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcca According to our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a> Post Merge Inflation dashboard, 46.15% of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/proofofstake?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#proofofstake<\/a> nodes for storing data, processing transactions, and adding new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blockchain?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blockchain<\/a> blocks can be attributed to just two addresses. This heavy dominance by these addresses is something to watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KQdFNgGloD\">pic.twitter.com\/KQdFNgGloD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Santiment (@santimentfeed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/santimentfeed\/status\/1570339602346684416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The market intelligence platform's post-merge inflation dashboard showed that <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">46.15% of the &#8220;nodes for storing data, processing transactions, and adding new <span class=\"r-18u37iz\">blockchain<\/span> blocks can be attributed to just two addresses.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u00a0According to the data, the firs<\/span>t address validated 188 blocks representing 28.97%, while the second validated 105 blocks representing 16.18% of the nodes. The third address validated 54 blocks representing 8.32%.<\/p>\n<p>Santiment stated that the dominance of the two addresses responsible for over 45% of the validated blocks is &#8220;something to watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Centralizations concerns<\/h2>\n<p>Members of the crypto community have begun to raise concerns about Ethereum's decentralization based on Santiment's data.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JPM\/Banking complex HAS THE NETWORK (they don&#39;t need Metcalfe&#39;s Law to take effect, they&#39;re already there &#8211; think MySpace) and through ETH, are trying to sell the mother of all fake narrative that ETH is a decentralized tech &#8211; while having ownership of metamask, quorum, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EgissonW (@EgissonW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EgissonW\/status\/1570384581702070272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a user criticized Santiment's comments stating that the addresses are flashbot relays made up of thousands of validators using one relayer. Thus, it's possible that these addresses are just relayer addresses and not sole validators.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a lazy article. These are flashbot relay&#39;s. Relays are made up of tens of thousands of people or in other words validators but because its 1 relayer, it shows up as 1 proposer of blocks on the network<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; timjanssen.eth (@thwjanssen89) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thwjanssen89\/status\/1570426961411067904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Before the merge, several stakeholders in the industry repeatedly addressed centralization concerns within the space. Five entities control over 64% of staked Ethereum, and three of them are centralized exchanges. The decentralized staking platform, Lido (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/lido-dao-token\/\">LDO<\/a>) DAO alone, controls 31%.<\/p>\n<h2>The wallets belong to Coinbase and Lido<\/h2>\n<p>In a separate tweet, Gnosis co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/martin-koppelmann\/\">Martin K\u00f6ppelmann<\/a> revealed that the two wallets belonged to Lido and Coinbase.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Out of the last 1000 blocks, 420 have been built by just Lido and Coinbase.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Martin K\u00f6ppelmann \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@koeppelmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koeppelmann\/status\/1570436882483523585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>K\u00f6ppelmann further tweeted that the top 7 entities control two-thirds of the stake.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">top 7 entities controlling &gt;2\/3 of the stake is pretty disappointing to see tbh <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VBipyFUM7g\">pic.twitter.com\/VBipyFUM7g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Martin K\u00f6ppelmann \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@koeppelmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koeppelmann\/status\/1570438784591822848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Should the industry be concerned?<\/h2>\n<p>Nodes play an integral role in Ethereum's staking mechanism as they pledge tokens to get a chance to produce the next transaction blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Though the dominance of the two wallets during the early hours of the merge goes against Ethereum's decentralization aim, it is not enough to conclude that the PoS network is centralized.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the merge's enthusiasm has not translated into a positive price performance for Ethereum. The asset's value has tanked below the $1500 level after roughly $70 million in long positions were liquidated, according to Coinglass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinglass.com\/LiquidationData\">data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two addresses have processed over 45% of Ethereum (ETH) transactions since the blockchain network completed its transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, according to Santiment data. \ud83d\udcca According to our #Ethereum Post Merge Inflation dashboard, 46.15% of the #proofofstake nodes for storing data, processing transactions, and adding new #blockchain blocks can be attributed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"featured_media":262498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,61713,15323],"tags":[72190,77142],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v21.9.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Santiment data shows 2 addresses controlling over 45% of Ethereum transactions post-merge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Santiment data shows that over 45% of Ethereum transactions have been processed by nodes that can be attributed to two wallets.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/santiment-data-shows-2-addresses-controlling-over-45-of-ethereum-transactions-post-merge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Santiment data shows 2 addresses controlling over 45% of Ethereum transactions post-merge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Santiment data shows that over 45% of Ethereum transactions have been processed by nodes that can be attributed to two wallets.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/santiment-data-shows-2-addresses-controlling-over-45-of-ethereum-transactions-post-merge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CryptoSlate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-15T20:54:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ethereum-post-merge.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Oluwapelumi Adejumo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Oluwapelumi Adejumo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/santiment-data-shows-2-addresses-controlling-over-45-of-ethereum-transactions-post-merge\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/santiment-data-shows-2-addresses-controlling-over-45-of-ethereum-transactions-post-merge\/\"},\"author\":{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/oluwapelumi-adejumo\/#person\",\"name\":\"Oluwapelumi Adejumo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/oluwapelumi-adejumo\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/oluwapelumi-adejumo\/\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/oluwapelumi-adejumo\/#authorimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/profile-oluwapelumi-adejumo-1-300x300.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/profile-oluwapelumi-adejumo-1-300x300.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Oluwapelumi Adejumo\"},\"jobTitle\":\"Senior Reporter\",\"description\":\"Oluwapelumi values Bitcoin's potential. 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