Delphi: institutional Ethereum blockspace buyers face four-minute wait for eligible slots
- —At 5% approved-operator weight, the chance of an eligible proposer within a minute is 23%
- —At 40% qualified weight, expected wait falls to about 30 seconds and the odds reach 92%
- —Ether.fi's $3 billion April commitment offers potential supply, not guaranteed qualified stake
- —ETHGas relay snapshot: 221,558 validator registrations and 104,728 delivered payloads
Why it matters: Institutional demand for controlled Ethereum execution depends on qualified validator weight, not on buying capacity alone.
Source: CryptoSlate