Between August 6 and 17 we measured both halves of the capacity-utilisation ratio — registered supply AND capacity actually in use — on the handful of networks that publish both. The result is the kind of finding node counts are structurally unable to show:

delivered per day: +0.0% (28,185 → 28,195). Active devices −3.4%. Running clusters −37.9%. Utilisation fell 57.3% → 44.6%. 31.6% → 61.2%, memory 14.9% → 24.7%, CPU 20.6% → 28.0%.

A dashboard ranking these two by node growth inverts reality.

Full write-up with method, daily paths, and every caveat we could find in our own numbers (single-window disclaimer, intraday-swing handling, a frozen counter we excluded, a fill-rate we refuse to publish and why): the divergence report.

Every figure links to the network's own public endpoint. Check us in one click — that is the product. API access.