Ethereum 31% of Node Activity Concentrated in U.S., CCAF Report Shows One-Third Validator Outage Would Halt Finalization

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According to The Block, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) latest report on post-merge Ethereum reveals that approximately 31% of Ethereum node activity is located in the U.S., with 39% distributed across the EU (excluding the UK), showing a Western-centric concentration pattern. The report identifies potential centralization risks, with nodes heavily concentrated among three hosting providers: Hetzner, AWS, and OVH. If more than one-third of validators go offline simultaneously, the network's checkpoint finalization would halt. Additionally, CCAF recalculated Ethereum's energy consumption post-merge at approximately 7.9 gigawatt-hours annually, representing a 99.98% reduction from pre-merge levels, with renewable energy accounting for over 56% of total consumption.
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