Base Network Monitoring
Base is Coinbase's Ethereum layer 2, built on the OP Stack. ProbeLab crawls its peer-to-peer network to show where the nodes are and which cloud providers host them. We also measure GossipSub bandwidth, control messages and duplicate messages.
Monitored Components
Core Statistics
Base is Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2, an optimistic rollup built on the OP Stack that settles to Ethereum L1 for security while batching transactions off-chain for lower fees and higher throughput. Like other OP Stack chains, its peer-to-peer layer runs on libp2p: op-node instances gossip unsafe blocks and attestations across the network until L1 finalization catches up. Check out the Topology and GossipSub sub-pages. They show node counts, client implementations, geographic distribution, and hosting concentration giving a view of how Base actually looks on the wire, beyond the sequencer.
Countries Distribution (24h)
Snapshot of active agents geolocation within the last 24hrs
Cloud Distribution (24h)
Snapshot of clients running with hosting providers
Cloud Provider Dependency Over Time
Count of nodes deployed per cloud provider and per agent
Measurement Tools
Our network monitoring employs advanced crawling and probing tools and techniques to gather comprehensive data about network health, topology, and performance.
Our Tools
Akai
A libp2p generic DA sampler for the Web3 space
DAS Guardian
A Data Availability Sampling tool to asses Ethereum Node's real custody
Bitswap Sniffer
A CID sniffer for content in IPFS over Bitswap and DHT requests
Tiros
A performance measurement tool for Kubo and IPFS-hosted websites.
Parsec
A DHT and IPNI lookup performance measurement tool.
Ants
A DHT monitoring tool for NAT'd peers.
Hermes
A lightweight GossipSub tracer.
Nebula
A network agnostic DHT crawler and monitoring tool