Minority execution clients have gained share over the past twelve months according to crawler data and self-reported operator surveys, continuing a slow improvement that began after the last major client bug scare.
The gains are uneven. Professional staking operators, who face slashing risk and have engineers to run unfamiliar software, account for most of the shift. Home operators overwhelmingly still run the default stack.
Crawler-based client identification is imperfect — nodes can misreport, and some are unreachable — so figures should be read as a range rather than a count.
The resilience argument has not changed: no single client should control a supermajority, because a consensus bug in that client becomes a consensus bug in the network.
Our dataset, refresh cadence and known limitations are published alongside the chart.
