23.4 gwei
Today's block 19,438,201 — a daily companion for the curious.
Gas (gwei)
23.4
Cadence
12.0s
Hash
0x8e2a…f41c
The chain, right now.
Three live signals — gas, throughput, and the validators keeping the lights on. Pulled from a thin WebSocket proxy, throttled to one paint per frame.
14.7 tx/s
1,012,488
Today's idea: What is a reorg?
A short explainer, refreshed daily. The chain is a tree pretending to be a line — and reorgs are when the lie briefly breaks.
A reorg — short for reorganization — happens when the network briefly disagrees on which block is canonical. Two miners produce blocks at nearly the same height. Both propagate. Half the network sees one first; half sees the other.
For a moment, two parallel histories exist. Then the next block lands on top of one of them, and the other is orphaned. The orphaned block's transactions slide back into the mempool. Most users never notice — but if you watched closely, the chain just held its breath.
The chart on the right shows the past 30 days. Each spike is a reorg event; each spike's height is its depth in blocks. Most are 1-deep — a hiccup. Anything past 3 deep is worth a phone call.
- 01 One-deep reorgs are normal — under load they happen ~hourly.
- 02 Two-deep is rare; three-deep is news.
- 03 Finality kicks in after 64 slots — past that, the chain forgets how to forget.
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