Where the nodes are
Countries
Hosting providers
Clients and sync
Clients
Client versions
Sync state
Fork
Open JSON-RPC: 50 nodes over HTTP, 38 over WebSocket. Bootnodes up: 6 of 6.
Unusual nodes
Key-rotating fleet
15 IP addresses showed 36,531 different node identities in 24 hours, a new one every few seconds. They are left out of every other count on this page.
Old version, current fork
190 synced nodes on the current fork announce a client version too old to follow it, on 2 networks. The announced version is not what they run.
Validator nodes
37 validators registered 74 node identities on-chain for the Enhanced Validator Network. 3 of them could be found through public discovery in the last 24 hours; the rest stay hidden behind sentry nodes.
Validators and block builders
Validators take turns producing blocks; almost all blocks are assembled by an external builder. The builder is identified by its payment
transaction at the start of the block (48Club: a transfer from 0x4848…4848; BlockRazor: a payment to its builder account 0xc7d4…db5c).
Active validators
Each of the 21 validators in the active set produces about the same number of blocks; stake decides who is in the set, not how often it produces.
| Validator | Blocks | Built by | Public before block |
|---|---|---|---|
| BNBEve | 4.4% | BlockRazor 57% · 48Club 41% | 29% |
| LegendIII | 4.4% | 48Club 55% · BlockRazor 44% | 26% |
| Legend | 4.4% | 48Club 55% · BlockRazor 44% | 25% |
| NodeReal | 4.4% | 48Club 56% · BlockRazor 44% | 25% |
| Figment | 4.3% | 48Club 62% · BlockRazor 38% | 27% |
| LegendII | 4.3% | 48Club 54% · BlockRazor 45% | 25% |
| Fuji | 4.3% | 48Club 60% · BlockRazor 39% | 25% |
| Avengers | 4.2% | 48Club 62% · BlockRazor 38% | 27% |
| Namelix | 4.2% | 48Club 55% · BlockRazor 45% | 27% |
| TWStaking | 4.2% | 48Club 57% · BlockRazor 43% | 25% |
| InfStones | 4.2% | 48Club 59% · BlockRazor 41% | 25% |
| Diablo | 4.2% | 48Club 58% · BlockRazor 42% | 25% |
| HashKey | 4.1% | 48Club 56% · BlockRazor 42% | 28% |
| BscScan | 4.1% | 48Club 59% · BlockRazor 41% | 26% |
| CertiK | 4.1% | 48Club 59% · BlockRazor 40% | 27% |
| MathW | 4.1% | 48Club 52% · BlockRazor 48% | 26% |
| Zen | 4.0% | 48Club 51% · BlockRazor 49% | 27% |
| Shannon | 4.0% | 48Club 65% · BlockRazor 35% | 23% |
| Feynman | 4.0% | 48Club 66% · BlockRazor 34% | 24% |
| Defibit | 3.9% | 48Club 51% · BlockRazor 48% | 25% |
| The48Club | 3.8% | 48Club 61% · BlockRazor 39% | 25% |
Candidate validators (24), 12% of blocks
| Validator | Blocks | Built by | Public before block |
|---|---|---|---|
| ListaDAO | 0.7% | 48Club 58% · BlockRazor 38% | 27% |
| Coda | 0.7% | 48Club 53% · BlockRazor 47% | 26% |
| NovaX | 0.6% | 48Club 60% · BlockRazor 40% | 26% |
| Legend8 | 0.6% | 48Club 59% · BlockRazor 41% | 22% |
| Pexmons | 0.6% | 48Club 55% · BlockRazor 45% | 27% |
| Veri | 0.6% | 48Club 69% · BlockRazor 31% | 24% |
| Star | 0.6% | – | – |
| Axion | 0.5% | 48Club 55% · BlockRazor 45% | 29% |
| Ciscox | 0.5% | 48Club 58% · BlockRazor 42% | 24% |
| LegendVII | 0.5% | 48Club 55% · BlockRazor 45% | 29% |
| ListaDAO2 | 0.5% | 48Club 55% · BlockRazor 43% | 23% |
| Sigm8 | 0.5% | 48Club 61% · BlockRazor 38% | 23% |
| Aoraki | 0.5% | 48Club 62% · BlockRazor 38% | 18% |
| Nexa | 0.5% | 48Club 57% · BlockRazor 43% | 27% |
| Ankr | 0.5% | 48Club 74% · BlockRazor 26% | 29% |
| Turing | 0.5% | – | – |
| LegendV | 0.5% | 48Club 64% · BlockRazor 36% | 25% |
| Kraken | 0.5% | – | – |
| Seoraksan | 0.4% | 48Club 51% · BlockRazor 49% | 30% |
| GlobalStk | 0.4% | 48Club 58% · BlockRazor 42% | 25% |
| Coinlix | 0.4% | 48Club 61% · BlockRazor 39% | 34% |
| LegendIV | 0.4% | 48Club 62% · BlockRazor 38% | 25% |
| ListaDAO3 | 0.4% | 48Club 63% · BlockRazor 29% | 23% |
| BitLV | 0.3% | 48Club 73% · BlockRazor 23% | 23% |
Private order flow
26%
of the transactions in BSC blocks were public before their block.
The rest first appeared in the peer-to-peer network when the block was sealed: they reached the block builder privately. Measured over 9,748 blocks and 796,883 transactions. Plain transfers, approvals and builder payments are left out. A lower bound: each observer holds about 30 peer connections.
How this is measured
- A crawler walks the BSC discovery network and completes a handshake with every node it can reach. Two observers in different regions keep short, rotating sessions with about 30 peers each and record when every block and transaction first arrives.
- “Public before block” counts a transaction when an observer received it from the network before the block's timestamp (BSC keeps the milliseconds in the header's
mixDigest). Observers see part of the network, so the true share is somewhat higher.
More detail
For more information or more detailed statistics, write to qwart279@gmail.com.