😬  If client diversity is so important for ethereum can we get more accurate monitoring tools that are not based on self-reporting and provide confidence on the displayed stats?

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There's a bunch of different efforts in this direction, but ultimately it's actually a very hard (technical) problem. There's no way to get confidence on the data unless you have control over operator systems (and no one wants that) or you're running everything in a TEE (won't happen from technical+speed perspective).

Eg improve reporting at CL: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pull/517 (doesn't help that much and can be easily spoofed / lied to)
Another thing being done: network analysis of nodes that we can then cross-check against self-reported data.
and...

research like this (https://ethresear.ch/t/allowing-validators-to-provide-client-information-privately-a-project-by-nethermind-research-and-nethermind-core/18527)