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Edition 81
Friday · May 22, 2026
BSV Network · 24 hours ending May 22, 10:13 UTC

Edition 81

Edited by Bridget Doran · Scanned 10:33 UTC, May 22 · Blocks 950,066 → 950,209 · 3,515,686 transactions
Largest move
$1.10M
73,679 BSV · whale tier
Avg block time
9.2min
near schedule
Throughput
45tx/s
peak 478 tx/s
BSV price
$14.98
▲ 1.0% · 24h
№ 01 Chain Health

8 pools, on schedule

8 pools produced today's 144 blocks at an average interval of 9.2 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target.

6.7 min
Median interval
half the blocks faster
63
Fast blocks1
under 5 min
275,883
Largest block
block 950,196
Fast and slow blocks are an expected feature of Proof of Work, not a defect. Block timing follows a Poisson process (random spacing around a steady average), so clusters of fast or slow blocks happen even when hashrate is unchanged.
Block cadence · 144 blocks · 21.9h
Fast (<5 min) · 63 Normal · 69 Slow (>20 min) · 12
For the technical reader

Block timing. Mean interval 551.0 seconds (9.2 min) over 143 measured intervals across 144 blocks; median 399 seconds (6.7 min). Range 2 s to 3952 s (65.9 min). One sub-3-second interval observed.

Cadence. Average interval 9.2 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target. 8 pools produced today's blocks.

Largest block. Block 950,196 at 275,883 transactions, the peak load in the window. Avg tx/block across all 144 blocks was 24,414.

№ 02 Mining Distribution

8 pools produced today's 144 blocks

CUVVE led at 20.1%. Distribution within normal range.

CUVVE 20.1%
taal.com 18.8%
GorillaPool 17.4%
taal.com_Teranode 10.4%
qdlnk 9.7%
molepool.com 9.7%
SA100 6.3%
Kryptex 4.2%
For the technical reader

Pool identification is by coinbase signature; pools that don't sign or use unrecognized tags appear as untagged producers. The _Teranode suffix (e.g., taal.com_Teranode) marks blocks attributed to a pool running the Teranode node software — based on observable signals in the block data, not a formal protocol marker. GorillaPool.io may also be running a Teranode (observed in the Teranode explorer); when blocks become attributable to that node, they would appear with the suffix as well.

Block counts: CUVVE 29, taal.com 27, GorillaPool 25, taal.com_Teranode 15, qdlnk 14, molepool.com 14, SA100 9, Kryptex 6. 139 of 144 blocks identified.

№ 03 Capital Flow

120 movements crossed the chain

2 of them moved more than 10,000 BSV, a combined ~$1.4 million at today's price.

2
Major
> 10K BSV
~$149,800+
20
Notable
1K – 10K BSV
~$14,980 – 149,800
98
Significant
100 – 1K BSV
~$1,498 – 14,980
Top movements
73,678.78BSV
≈ $1,103,708 079d694e71…
2 → 2 Neutral
18,252.40BSV
≈ $273,421 02834d43a9…
9 → 1 Consolidation
9,957.88BSV
≈ $149,169 149d2a686e…
1 → 2 Neutral
4,150.00BSV
≈ $62,167 36bc4c4cae…
1 → 2 Neutral
For the technical reader

Tier thresholds. Major > 10K BSV; Notable 1K – 10K BSV; Significant 100 – 1K BSV. Counts are unique transactions in the 24-hour window moving value within these bands; the 100-BSV floor excludes ordinary day-to-day payments.

Shape is input-count → output-count. Pattern is heuristic:

Neutral: typical payment shape (1→2 or 2→2, one payment + change).
Consolidation: many inputs, few outputs (UTXO cleanup or sweep).
Distribution: few inputs, many outputs (payouts, faucet, batch send).

№ 04 Throughput & Market
BSV / USD
$14.98
▲ 1.0% over 24h
Throughput, avg
45tx/s
peak 478 tx/s · 10-min window
Avg tx / block24,414
Max tx / block275,883
Total transactions3,515,686
10-min peak286,859
For the technical reader

TPS is computed over the 21.9 hours of the scan window in 10-minute intervals, not per block. The peak is the busiest 10-minute window observed (286,859 transactions, ≈ 478 tx/s for that window).

Price source: real-time quote at scan completion. 24h change is from a rolling 24-hour spot reference.

№ 05 Transaction Velocity

Activity by hour, across 24 hours

3,515,686 transactions mapped to 10-minute windows. The brightest cell is the busiest window of the day.

121518210003060911:00:10:20:30:40:5012:00 UTC — 0 txs12:10 UTC — 1 txs12:20 UTC — 2,947 txs12:30 UTC — 13,401 txs12:40 UTC — 0 txs12:50 UTC — 44,801 txs13:00 UTC — 54,058 txs13:10 UTC — 71,082 txs13:20 UTC — 80,277 txs13:30 UTC — 0 txs13:40 UTC — 55,296 txs13:50 UTC — 0 txs14:00 UTC — 149,504 txs150k14:10 UTC — 126,755 txs127k14:20 UTC — 0 txs14:30 UTC — 77,569 txs14:40 UTC — 71,314 txs14:50 UTC — 54,123 txs15:00 UTC — 0 txs15:10 UTC — 0 txs15:20 UTC — 0 txs15:30 UTC — 286,859 txs287k15:40 UTC — 36,747 txs15:50 UTC — 0 txs16:00 UTC — 0 txs16:10 UTC — 46,900 txs16:20 UTC — 58,428 txs16:30 UTC — 0 txs16:40 UTC — 137,779 txs138k16:50 UTC — 11,683 txs17:00 UTC — 1,798 txs17:10 UTC — 0 txs17:20 UTC — 969 txs17:30 UTC — 2,057 txs17:40 UTC — 33,498 txs17:50 UTC — 0 txs18:00 UTC — 0 txs18:10 UTC — 155 txs18:20 UTC — 168,730 txs169k18:30 UTC — 378 txs18:40 UTC — 0 txs18:50 UTC — 0 txs19:00 UTC — 2,492 txs19:10 UTC — 0 txs19:20 UTC — 976 txs19:30 UTC — 496 txs19:40 UTC — 213 txs19:50 UTC — 1,612 txs20:00 UTC — 138 txs20:10 UTC — 0 txs20:20 UTC — 1,015 txs20:30 UTC — 898 txs20:40 UTC — 0 txs20:50 UTC — 889 txs21:00 UTC — 124 txs21:10 UTC — 620 txs21:20 UTC — 0 txs21:30 UTC — 10 txs21:40 UTC — 51,200 txs21:50 UTC — 48,113 txs22:00 UTC — 0 txs22:10 UTC — 85,051 txs22:20 UTC — 0 txs22:30 UTC — 71,724 txs22:40 UTC — 0 txs22:50 UTC — 0 txs23:00 UTC — 87,176 txs23:10 UTC — 73,545 txs23:20 UTC — 153,549 txs154k23:30 UTC — 129,288 txs129k23:40 UTC — 0 txs23:50 UTC — 0 txs00:00 UTC — 83,777 txs00:10 UTC — 16,153 txs00:20 UTC — 3,822 txs00:30 UTC — 0 txs00:40 UTC — 0 txs00:50 UTC — 0 txs01:00 UTC — 0 txs01:10 UTC — 10,407 txs01:20 UTC — 38,580 txs01:30 UTC — 89,537 txs01:40 UTC — 0 txs01:50 UTC — 116,636 txs117k02:00 UTC — 0 txs02:10 UTC — 0 txs02:20 UTC — 192,493 txs192k02:30 UTC — 0 txs02:40 UTC — 213,047 txs213k02:50 UTC — 105 txs03:00 UTC — 546 txs03:10 UTC — 469 txs03:20 UTC — 0 txs03:30 UTC — 287 txs03:40 UTC — 237 txs03:50 UTC — 1,301 txs04:00 UTC — 0 txs04:10 UTC — 2,160 txs04:20 UTC — 0 txs04:30 UTC — 2,449 txs04:40 UTC — 1,234 txs04:50 UTC — 0 txs05:00 UTC — 0 txs05:10 UTC — 0 txs05:20 UTC — 0 txs05:30 UTC — 0 txs05:40 UTC — 0 txs05:50 UTC — 7,281 txs06:00 UTC — 1,217 txs06:10 UTC — 1,294 txs06:20 UTC — 988 txs06:30 UTC — 794 txs06:40 UTC — 867 txs06:50 UTC — 0 txs07:00 UTC — 629 txs07:10 UTC — 0 txs07:20 UTC — 263 txs07:30 UTC — 695 txs07:40 UTC — 361 txs07:50 UTC — 0 txs08:00 UTC — 10,909 txs08:10 UTC — 4 txs08:20 UTC — 0 txs08:30 UTC — 0 txs08:40 UTC — 0 txs08:50 UTC — 275,883 txs276k09:00 UTC — 45,417 txs09:10 UTC — 11,303 txs09:20 UTC — 6,157 txs09:30 UTC — 52,667 txs09:40 UTC — 28,094 txs09:50 UTC — 361 txs10:00 UTC — 0 txs10:10 UTC — 1,024 txs10:20 UTC — 0 txs10:30 UTC — 0 txs10:40 UTC — 0 txs10:50 UTC — 0 txs11:00 UTC — 0 txs11:10 UTC — 0 txs11:20 UTC — 0 txs11:30 UTC — 0 txs11:40 UTC — 0 txs11:50 UTC — 0 txsActivity:High
Peak 10-min window: 286,859 txs Coverage: 144 blocks · 21.9h 05-21 12:19 UTC → 05-22 10:13 UTC
For the technical reader

Dark cells indicate 10-minute windows where no block was mined: a natural result of the Poisson process governing Proof of Work.2 Transactions broadcast during those windows appear in the next mined block.

Each row = one hour of the scan. Each column = a 10-minute bucket within that hour. Read left-to-right within a row, then down to the next hour.

Poisson process. A random event process where events occur independently at a stable average rate, but with unpredictable spacing. Block times have a 10-minute average but individual intervals scatter widely; that's not a bug, it's how the math works.
№ 06 On-chain Activity

7.3 million outputs, by purpose

The TxBlaster service produced 79.6% of transactions, posting paired payment and data-publication outputs continuously. The breakdown below isolates the remaining 20.4% so other activity is readable.

A note on storage. OP_RETURN data is prunable: nodes can discard it without breaking consensus, but reading it back requires running an indexer. UTXO-resident patterns (STAS tokens, spendable metadata, ordinal envelopes) remain in the chain's state and are recoverable from any pruned node. As BSV scales, the architectural direction is toward UTXO-resident data, not OP_RETURN.
All transactions, by source
TxBlaster · 79.6%
20.4%
2,799,500 tx 716,186 tx · all other
Excluding TxBlaster3 · 1,723,427 outputs
Payment 58.6% 1,009,371
P2PKH 1,000,261 · P2PK 9,000 · Multisig 110
Data Publication 41.4% 713,820
OP_RETURN 713,448 · Ordinal envelopes 290 · Spendable metadata 82
Contracts & Tokens 0.01% 236
STAS Gen 3: 175 · Custom locking: 61 · 7 unique structures

Of 714,056 non-payment outputs in this window, 99.9% were prunable (OP_RETURN) and 0.1% were UTXO-resident. Pruning is permitted by consensus today but not generally practiced — the architectural advantage of UTXO-resident data materializes as throughput scales toward Teranode-class capacity.

Method · how non-payment outputs are embedded
OP_RETURN 713,448Spendable metadata 82Ordinal envelope 290STAS Gen 3 175Custom locking 61
TxBlaster is an identified, automated service that posts paired P2PK + OP_RETURN transactions continuously. We count it separately not because it's less legitimate (every fee-paid valid transaction is real chain activity), but because at 80% of transaction count today, it would visually overwhelm everything else. The numbers above show what the other activity looks like.
For the technical reader

Purpose classifies outputs by what they're locked to:

Payment: P2PKH, P2PK, multisig (spendable value).
Data Publication: OP_RETURN, ordinal envelopes, spendable metadata (carrying data).
Contracts: STAS tokens, custom locking scripts (programmable spend conditions).

Spendable metadata (heuristic): scripts with signature verification followed by data removed via OP_DROP. Metadata isn't consumed by validation logic but remains on-chain in the UTXO set.

Unique structures: a contract structure is a normalized script skeleton with variable data (hashes, signatures, pubkeys) removed. 7 unique structures observed today across 236 contract outputs.

№ 07 Protocols & Content

What people published, and how it was framed

Open standards used to format data on-chain, and the MIME types declared in those publications.

Protocol · open standards defining data format
MAP 1,479Metanet4 1,347B:// 917AIP 4581Sat-Ordinal 293BSV-21 212OPUB 63STAS 63
Metanet (the original). The 2018-2019 nChain protocol: a 4-byte "meta" push in OP_RETURN that defines a DAG of parent-txid-linked records. Not to be confused with the newer BRC-100 "Metanet" wallet/overlay ecosystem, which uses the same word for a different thing.
Content Type · MIME types in declared inscriptions
text/markdown 454text/plain 237application/bsv-20 212image/jpeg 158application/json 99image/png 51text/html 45image/webp 39
For the technical reader

Content Types are MIME declarations sourced from two structures: ordinal envelopes (1Sat-style spendable inscriptions) and B:// protocol OP_RETURN publications. Outputs that don't declare a MIME type aren't counted here.

application/bsv-20 covers both BSV-20 and BSV-21: both protocols declare "p":"bsv-20" in their JSON and most inscriptions inherit the legacy MIME type. Protocol differentiation happens via JSON fields (tick = BSV-20 ticker mode; sym/id = BSV-21 tickerless mode).

№ 08 Overlay Directory

192 endpoints across the federation, 24 new this window

BRC-88 topic registrations announce who is hosting which overlay services on chain.

SHIP · intake side
85endpoints
across 63 topics
SLAP · query side
107endpoints
across 62 topics
Top topic managers · SHIP (of 63)
tm_template 14tm_users 8tm_plite 8tm_uhrp 7tm_meter 7
Top lookup services · SLAP (of 62)
ls_template 13ls_plite 10ls_uhrp 7ls_users 7ls_zed 7
Directory topics tm_ship (26) · tm_slap (26) · ls_ship (25) · ls_slap (25)
New this window · 24 advertisements
SHIP
tm_xanadownvote_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanauserproof_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanaupvote_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanapost_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanauserregistry_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanareply_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanaupvote_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanauserproof_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanauserregistry_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanareply_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanapost_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanadownvote_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanapost_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanaupvote_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanauserregistry_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanauserproof_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanareply_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SHIP
tm_xanadownvote_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanaupvote_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanareply_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanauserregistry_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanauserproof_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanapost_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
SLAP
ls_xanadownvote_beta
operator 02f51189b32b3de5… · rust-beta.overlay.zanaadu.com
950,124
For the technical reader

BRC-88 SHIP/SLAP. Topic registrations on chain that announce which overlay services a node hosts. SHIP is the intake side (which topics this node accepts); SLAP is the query side (which topics this node can answer for).

endpoints = unique (URL, identity key) pairs. advertisements = signed unspent UTXOs on chain, each declaring one endpoint hosts one topic. topics = named overlay services like tm_uhrp or ls_ship.

Snapshot from 2026-05-22 11:15 UTC. Counts come from the four trackers hardcoded into the BSV SDK (overlay-us-1, overlay-eu-1, overlay-ap-1, users.bapp.dev). BSV apps query these to find which servers host the overlay topics they need.

№ 09 Identifiable Activity

Applications and tokens with recognizable fingerprints

GaiaLog led identifiable activity at 50,229 transactions. Most chain activity carries no such identifier; the names below are services whose on-chain shape is recognizable from prior analysis.

GaiaLog 50,229TreeChat 1,066dxs 688ButterCup 324MNEE 207BSV Feed/View 93BSV Live Master 41mintBlue 36OYO 30memo.cash 243D Ordi 22Indelible 20Neucron 11ForgeChain 10CASHEIO 4
Application Token Media / NFT
For the technical reader

Patterns are matched against a curated catalog of known protocols and application signatures: MAP tags, B:// envelopes, AIP, OPUB, ordinal mime declarations, custom STAS structures. Some come from WoC tags; others are identified through analysis. New patterns are added editorially as they emerge.

Counts are unique transactions touching each application's recognizable structures. A transaction can match more than one pattern.

№ 10 Script of the Day

Programmable Contract

CONTRACT · selected from 61 candidates

Programmable Contract with a 272-byte payload

What it does. This script uses conditional logic (OP_IF/OP_ELSE), byte manipulation (OP_SPLIT/OP_CAT), or hash operations to enforce spending conditions beyond simple signature verification.

Why it matters. Demonstrates BSV's full scripting capability for programmable money and stateful applications.

TX d3956943e2… Block 950,072 272 script bytes
Opcodes used
DUPHASH160EQUALVERIFYCHECKSIG
Script preview
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 84f637a2837ec24a4149693f0aa0620beaf57da1 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG 223150755161374b36324d694b43747373534c4b79316b683536575755374d74555235035345540361707012666f78636861742e706978656c666f786573047479706504706f737403666f78082337373838363832066f726967696e433632333537356661313433336235
Skeleton
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 <DATA> OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG <DATA>
For the technical reader

Selection is editorial: one script per day from a curated category (Data Carrier, Token Mint, Complex Contract, Hash Puzzle, etc.). Candidate count shows how many similar scripts appeared in the same window.

The script preview above is the actual on-chain ASM (truncated for display); the skeleton normalizes pushes to <DATA> for pattern comparison across transactions. Opcodes shown are the unique ones present in the script, not the sequence order.

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