Cambridge researcher: 31% of ETH node activity is concentrated in US

Alexander Neumüller, a researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), stated that Ethereum nodes are concentrated on Hetzner, AWS, and OVH, with 31% of all node activity occurring in the United States. According to Wu Blockchain, he explained that if more than one-third of validators go offline simultaneously, checkpoints may fail to be finalized. Previously, in 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) argued that the U.S. could exercise jurisdiction over Ethereum, citing the significant number of its nodes located within the country.