Gnosis discv5 weekly report 2025-16 #

The following results show measurement data that were collected in calendar week 16 of 2025 from 2025-04-14 to 2025-04-21.

This page describes our methodology. Note that we are only able to display information about dialable nodes, hence nodes operating behind a NATs aren’t accounted for, even though they may be interacting with the network.

Agents #

Agent Distribution #

This bar chart represents the distribution of various user agents within the Gnosis discv5 DHT. Each bar corresponds to a different user agent or client type and indicates its relative prevalence within the network for the given reporting period. The chart provides a snapshot of how different Gnosis clients are being utilized in the network’s decentralized infrastructure.

The bar labeled Unknown represents the count of nodes that we confirmed to be online but couldn’t retrieve the agent version information from. This situation can occur due to various reasons, such as the node terminating the connection before completing the full protocol negotiation. In this case, despite reaching an advanced stage in the process, we were unable to obtain any information about the node’s configuration.

This stacked plot shows the distribution of various user agents over time.

This chart presents the version distribution for all major user agents, with each bar representing the average number of online peers over the course of a week.

This stacked chart illustrates how the distribution of agent versions for all key user agents evolves over time. It offers insights into the uptake of newer versions among these agents.

Protocols #

This plot illustrates the evolving count of nodes supporting each of the listed protocols over time for the different user agents. The identification of supported protocols relies on the [libp2p identify protocol](https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/identify).

Quic support #

This stacked chart illustrates quic support for Gnosis nodes over time, broken down by user agent.

Geolocation #

Geographical data is sourced from a leading IP Geolocation provider, which maps IP addresses to corresponding countries.

This bar plot illustrates the distribution of observed beacon nodes across different countries, broken down for each major user agent.

This plot displays the weekly geographical distribution of beacon nodes, categorized by country and broken down for each major user agent.

Cloud Providers #

This pie chart shows the average number of nodes over a day hosted on known cloud providers, compared to those that are not.

Cloud providers data is powered by ipregistry.co, which maps IP addresses to known hosting providers.

Cloud Hosting Rate #

This line chart displays the count of beacon nodes within the Gnosis network that are hosted on known commercial cloud providers, compared to those that are not. It tracks the distribution over a specified period, offering insights into the infrastructure preferences for node hosting. The graph is broken down by each major user agent.

Regular analysis of this chart can reveal trends in the adoption of cloud services for beacon nodes. Such information is crucial for understanding the network’s resilience and the potential reliance on cloud infrastructure.

Cloud Provider Dependence #

This bar chart presents the distribution of Gnosis nodes among various cloud providers, including nodes not hosted within data centers (grouped under Non-Cloud).

This chart illustrates the trends in the distribution of all Gnosis beacon nodes across cloud providers over the given time period. Nodes that cannot be classified with a cloud provider is labelled as “Non- Cloud”. Note that nodes hosted outside of data centers are not included in this representation.

Stale Node Records #

This stacked plot depicts the count of node records stored within each node’s routing table and made accessible through the DHT. These node records serve as a mechanism through which nodes discover new remote nodes in the network.

Ensuring the reachability of referenced nodes shared within the network holds paramount importance. The plot delineates the occurrences of reachable and non-reachable (stale) node records. Note that nodes running behind a NAT are counted as unreachable even though they may be online.

For instance, if a node’s record is present in the routing tables of 100 other nodes and the node is reachable, the plot will reflect an increase of 100 in the Reachable category.

This plot displays the number of Gnosis records (fork digest 0x3ebfd484) found in the routing table of other Gnosis nodes.

Sample Size #

The following numbers show the sample size and other general statistics during the measurement period

• Number of crawls: 83

  The number of crawls executed during the week indicated above.

• Number of visits: 151232

  Every attempt to dial or connect to a peer counts as a visit. Regardless of errors that may occur. We visit peers many times during a given week to extract information from them or probe for their uptime. We visit all peers that we discover in the DHT and peers that we found to be still online from the previous week.

• Number of unique addresses discovered in the DHT: 3516

  The total number of unique IP:Port combinations that our crawler learned about from other peers over the period of the given week and attempted to dial or connect to (visit). This is not the total number of Peer IDs that existed simultaneously in the network at any point during the week. It is the aggregate over the entire week.

• Analysed fork digest: 0x3ebfd484

  Only nodes that advertised the above fork digest were considered in this analysis.

Timestamps are in UTC if not mentioned otherwise.