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Edition 82
Saturday · May 23, 2026
BSV Network · 24 hours ending May 23, 10:14 UTC

Edition 82

Edited by Bridget Doran · Scanned 10:31 UTC, May 23 · Blocks 950,203 → 950,346 · 1,573,129 transactions
Largest move
$1.07M
73,664 BSV · whale tier
Avg block time
10.4min
near schedule
Throughput
18tx/s
peak 337 tx/s
BSV price
$14.49
▼ 3.3% · 24h
№ 01 Chain Health

8 pools, on schedule

8 pools produced today's 144 blocks at an average interval of 10.4 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target.

6.1 min
Median interval
half the blocks faster
64
Fast blocks1
under 5 min
202,294
Largest block
block 950,287
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 · 24.7h
Fast (<5 min) · 64 Normal · 61 Slow (>20 min) · 19
For the technical reader

Block timing. Mean interval 621.8 seconds (10.4 min) over 143 measured intervals across 144 blocks; median 367 seconds (6.1 min). Range 1 s to 3962 s (66.0 min). One sub-3-second interval observed.

Cadence. Average interval 10.4 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target. 8 pools produced today's blocks.

Largest block. Block 950,287 at 202,294 transactions, the peak load in the window. Avg tx/block across all 144 blocks was 10,925.

№ 02 Mining Distribution

8 pools produced today's 144 blocks

taal.com led at 18.1%. Distribution within normal range.

taal.com 18.1%
CUVVE 16.7%
molepool.com 16.7%
qdlnk 15.3%
GorillaPool 13.2%
SA100 8.3%
Kryptex 7.6%
taal.com_Teranode 2.1%
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: taal.com 26, CUVVE 24, molepool.com 24, qdlnk 22, GorillaPool 19, SA100 12, Kryptex 11, taal.com_Teranode 3. 141 of 144 blocks identified.

№ 03 Capital Flow

751 movements crossed the chain

6 of them moved more than 10,000 BSV, a combined ~$5.9 million at today's price.

6
Major
> 10K BSV
~$144,900+
38
Notable
1K – 10K BSV
~$14,490 – 144,900
707
Significant
100 – 1K BSV
~$1,449 – 14,490
Top movements
73,664.20BSV
≈ $1,067,394 c70d9e49c7…
2 → 2 Neutral
73,660.96BSV
≈ $1,067,347 254426a0f2…
2 → 2 Neutral
73,659.96BSV
≈ $1,067,333 0556ad73bf…
2 → 2 Neutral
73,657.27BSV
≈ $1,067,294 8b1b3b9f67…
2 → 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
$14.49
▼ 3.3% over 24h
Throughput, avg
18tx/s
peak 337 tx/s · 10-min window
Avg tx / block10,925
Max tx / block202,294
Total transactions1,573,129
10-min peak202,294
For the technical reader

TPS is computed over the 24.7 hours of the scan window in 10-minute intervals, not per block. The peak is the busiest 10-minute window observed (202,294 transactions, ≈ 337 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 27 hours

1,573,129 transactions mapped to 10-minute windows. The brightest cell is the busiest window of the day.

09121518210003060911:00:10:20:30:40:5009:00 UTC — 0 txs09:10 UTC — 0 txs09:20 UTC — 0 txs09:30 UTC — 49,321 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 — 1,862 txs10:40 UTC — 0 txs10:50 UTC — 608 txs11:00 UTC — 0 txs11:10 UTC — 0 txs11:20 UTC — 0 txs11:30 UTC — 3,388 txs11:40 UTC — 151 txs11:50 UTC — 777 txs12:00 UTC — 0 txs12:10 UTC — 0 txs12:20 UTC — 0 txs12:30 UTC — 2,224 txs12:40 UTC — 682 txs12:50 UTC — 0 txs13:00 UTC — 2,059 txs13:10 UTC — 513 txs13:20 UTC — 3,124 txs13:30 UTC — 6,703 txs13:40 UTC — 6,110 txs13:50 UTC — 0 txs14:00 UTC — 1,000 txs14:10 UTC — 226 txs14:20 UTC — 1,212 txs14:30 UTC — 368 txs14:40 UTC — 839 txs14:50 UTC — 175 txs15:00 UTC — 641 txs15:10 UTC — 20,561 txs15:20 UTC — 0 txs15:30 UTC — 123 txs15:40 UTC — 174,190 txs174k15:50 UTC — 15,211 txs16:00 UTC — 26,421 txs16:10 UTC — 0 txs16:20 UTC — 2,535 txs16:30 UTC — 0 txs16:40 UTC — 1,384 txs16:50 UTC — 0 txs17:00 UTC — 0 txs17:10 UTC — 1,031 txs17:20 UTC — 326 txs17:30 UTC — 213 txs17:40 UTC — 0 txs17:50 UTC — 0 txs18:00 UTC — 0 txs18:10 UTC — 0 txs18:20 UTC — 0 txs18:30 UTC — 0 txs18:40 UTC — 84,771 txs85k18:50 UTC — 35,413 txs19:00 UTC — 0 txs19:10 UTC — 0 txs19:20 UTC — 0 txs19:30 UTC — 82,242 txs82k19:40 UTC — 0 txs19:50 UTC — 4,407 txs20:00 UTC — 0 txs20:10 UTC — 0 txs20:20 UTC — 0 txs20:30 UTC — 1,870 txs20:40 UTC — 479 txs20:50 UTC — 0 txs21:00 UTC — 1,411 txs21:10 UTC — 0 txs21:20 UTC — 25,991 txs21:30 UTC — 312 txs21:40 UTC — 0 txs21:50 UTC — 0 txs22:00 UTC — 0 txs22:10 UTC — 0 txs22:20 UTC — 112,085 txs112k22:30 UTC — 0 txs22:40 UTC — 0 txs22:50 UTC — 0 txs23:00 UTC — 201,290 txs201k23:10 UTC — 0 txs23:20 UTC — 0 txs23:30 UTC — 1,131 txs23:40 UTC — 108 txs23:50 UTC — 2,952 txs00:00 UTC — 722 txs00:10 UTC — 0 txs00:20 UTC — 101,217 txs101k00:30 UTC — 32,317 txs00:40 UTC — 0 txs00:50 UTC — 0 txs01:00 UTC — 202,294 txs202k01:10 UTC — 91,726 txs92k01:20 UTC — 1,690 txs01:30 UTC — 0 txs01:40 UTC — 0 txs01:50 UTC — 0 txs02:00 UTC — 10,165 txs02:10 UTC — 212 txs02:20 UTC — 721 txs02:30 UTC — 0 txs02:40 UTC — 244 txs02:50 UTC — 300 txs03:00 UTC — 147 txs03:10 UTC — 170 txs03:20 UTC — 380 txs03:30 UTC — 544 txs03:40 UTC — 0 txs03:50 UTC — 633 txs04:00 UTC — 0 txs04:10 UTC — 0 txs04:20 UTC — 958 txs04:30 UTC — 0 txs04:40 UTC — 472 txs04:50 UTC — 478 txs05:00 UTC — 467 txs05:10 UTC — 316 txs05:20 UTC — 171 txs05:30 UTC — 266 txs05:40 UTC — 183 txs05:50 UTC — 652 txs06:00 UTC — 0 txs06:10 UTC — 1,040 txs06:20 UTC — 189 txs06:30 UTC — 566 txs06:40 UTC — 0 txs06:50 UTC — 1,378 txs07:00 UTC — 0 txs07:10 UTC — 1,427 txs07:20 UTC — 0 txs07:30 UTC — 0 txs07:40 UTC — 52 txs07:50 UTC — 2,514 txs08:00 UTC — 1,771 txs08:10 UTC — 0 txs08:20 UTC — 1,370 txs08:30 UTC — 0 txs08:40 UTC — 0 txs08:50 UTC — 0 txs09:00 UTC — 2,467 txs09:10 UTC — 16,080 txs09:20 UTC — 9,427 txs09:30 UTC — 17 txs09:40 UTC — 0 txs09:50 UTC — 10,487 txs10:00 UTC — 168,244 txs168k10:10 UTC — 736 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: 202,294 txs Coverage: 144 blocks · 24.7h 05-22 09:33 UTC → 05-23 10:14 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

3.3 million outputs, by purpose

The TxBlaster service produced 94.9% of transactions, posting paired payment and data-publication outputs continuously. The breakdown below isolates the remaining 5.1% 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 · 94.9%
5.1%
1,493,369 tx 79,760 tx · all other
Excluding TxBlaster3 · 298,589 outputs
Payment 78.7% 235,101
P2PKH 225,864 · P2PK 9,200 · Multisig 37
Data Publication 21.1% 63,145
OP_RETURN 63,044 · Ordinal envelopes 85 · Spendable metadata 16
Contracts & Tokens 0.11% 343
STAS Gen 3: 284 · Custom locking: 59 · 10 unique structures

Of 63,488 non-payment outputs in this window, 99.3% were prunable (OP_RETURN) and 0.7% 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 63,044Spendable metadata 16Ordinal envelope 85STAS Gen 3 284Custom locking 59
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 95% 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. 10 unique structures observed today across 343 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 1,813Metanet4 1,521B:// 1,382AIP 5901Sat-Ordinal 92BSV-21 38STAS 24BAP 6
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/plain 598text/markdown 586image/jpeg 134application/json 75image/png 45application/bsv-20 38text/html 17image/gif 4
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, 2 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 · 2 advertisements
SLAP
ls_uhrp
operator 02384b883d3188af… · pursuant-nature-bloomers.ngrok-free.dev
950,254
SHIP
tm_uhrp
operator 02384b883d3188af… · pursuant-nature-bloomers.ngrok-free.dev
950,254
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 2026-05-23 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 52,785 transactions. Most chain activity carries no such identifier; the names below are services whose on-chain shape is recognizable from prior analysis.

GaiaLog 52,785TreeChat 1,605dxs 600ButterCup 893D Ordi 69MNEE 38Neucron 24OYO 15memo.cash 12BSV Live Master 10ForgeChain 9mintBlue 5Indelible 2CASHEIO 2
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

Multi-Signature

MULTISIG · selected from 37 candidates

Multi-Signature with a 71-byte payload

What it does. Requires multiple signatures (M-of-N) to spend. Used for shared custody, escrow, and organizational funds.

Why it matters. Enables trustless collaboration and enhanced security for high-value transactions.

TX a4d647c1a0… Block 950,220 71 script bytes
Opcodes used
2CHECKMULTISIG
Script preview
OP_2 0346b07389c25fa61bfaf5b95596f70e3a9b69168bd7d92e39851ce9169dc5226f 038619d4efcb9cf018987130c4a31962f880dafab7642f700c399fc52c76931f5e OP_2 OP_CHECKMULTISIG
Skeleton
OP_2 <DATA> <DATA> OP_2 OP_CHECKMULTISIG
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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