Blog Posts

Anyone, with no role, no stake, and a few dollars of gas, could permanently freeze RailGun's entire distributable DAO Treasury. This article walks through the single missing bound that made it possible and what happened next.

Ethereum’s deposit pipeline has been redesigned twice since Phase 0. The Beacon API tags have not reflected these changes. Here we outline the evolution and propose new naming tags for how the deposit transition happens.

Three years ago, MigaLabs was born with a clear mission: understand Ethereum from the inside out and share that understanding freely with the world.

Analysis on the KelpDAO economic exploit on Aave V3 with detailed description on the funds flow.

Monte Carlo simulation investigating nonce gaps in Ethereum’s sharded blob mempool. This study shows the positive impact of the proposed EIP8077 on a sharded blob mempool.

Investigation on the impact of the Fusaka hard fork and subsequent blob parameter updates on the network’s performance. The study highlights a lack of demand, noting that blob usage has fallen below target levels despite recent capacity increases.

GotEth is an opensource Ethereum indexer that extracts validator and blockchain data from consensus and execution layers. It powers MigaLabs dashboards, APIs, and explorers, and is used by teams like Stakely for validator monitoring and analytics.

Between July 16–27, 2025, Ethereum’s validator exit queue hit its heaviest congestion since 2023: 625k–644k ETH ($2.3–2.4B). Triggered by $518M Aave withdrawals by HTX/Justin Sun, it caused a stETH depeg and exposed risks in leveraged staking.

Re-staking extends Ethereum’s security to dApps. Node Operators need a framework to assess projects. This proposed framework helps identify those best aligned with their goals.

While developing our consensus layer indexer, we found discrepancies in reported validator slashing amounts across two major block explorers. This revealed an edgy case where it might appear as if a validator was slashed twice.

We embarked in the journey of analyzing the first 3 months after the Dencun fork in Ethereum. This is our entry to the Ethereum Foundation's EIP4844 Data Challenge.

We examine the changes in Ethereum's hardware resource usage after the Deneb fork. We analyze the impact of blobs on network bandwidth, memory usage, and consensus client performance.

In this report, we are presenting the inconsistencies found when we deployed our Polygon's zkEVM synchronizer, analyzed the data, and compared it to Etherescan's analysis.

We are thrilled to present the official release of eth-pokhar, a tool designed to help identify entities/pools controlling validators participating in the consensus layer of Ethereum.

The Beacon chain allows validators to propose and vote on blocks. Despite knowing their duties two epochs in advance, optimal message propagation in the network might not be always guaranteed.

In the Ethereum p2p network, nodes send blocks, transactions, and other types of messages, which get serialized before being sent over the network. They can be compressed, reducing the bandwidth consumption, and speeding up network transfers.

We are glad to release the report of our latest collaboration with the Obol team. We did a performance study on the Obol Distributed Validator Technology, running validators in different machines, cloud providers, and geographical locations.

On Tuesday May 30th, 2023, a slashing event happened in the Ethereum Prater network. Around 584 validators were slashed during 1008 epochs. These validators were part of an experiment carried out by the MigaLabs team for testing purposes.

Migalabs releases Armiarma, a crawler for Ethereum2 mainnet. It tracks peer activity, client diversity, and network stats via API and dashboard. Open-source and community-driven.

Migalabs emphasizes system resilience and fault tolerance, urging Ethereum stakers to support client diversity for a more decentralized and reliable blockchain ecosystem.

Migalabs highlights the importance of resilience and client diversity in blockchain systems, drawing parallels with aerospace fault tolerance. Promotes decentralization by encouraging Ethereum users to adopt minority consensus clients.

ChatGPT said: Migalabs demonstrates how to automate validator migration across Ethereum’s 6 main consensus clients, aiming to promote client diversity. Tested on Kiln with 250 validators, results show smooth transitions and consistent rewards.

Migalabs analyzed Ethereum consensus layer client performance post-Merge using graffiti, CIP pools, and block proposal scoring. Results show minimal long-term reward differences, supporting client diversity and network robustness.

Migalabs shares validator reward data from before and after Ethereum’s Merge via BigQuery. Includes stats per epoch, validator, and pool to support analysis and research. Used in the Panda Metrics site.

Migalabs releases Armiarma, an open-source crawler for Ethereum2 mainnet. It monitors peer activity, tracks client diversity, and provides public APIs and dashboards to support research and strengthen the Ethereum ecosystem.