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Edition 84
Monday · May 25, 2026
BSV Network · 24 hours ending May 25, 10:18 UTC

Edition 84

Edited by Bridget Doran · Scanned 10:31 UTC, May 25 · Blocks 950,485 → 950,628 · 271,743 transactions
Largest move
$68K
4,625 BSV · notable tier
Avg block time
10.5min
near schedule
Throughput
3tx/s
peak 151 tx/s
BSV price
$14.80
▲ 0.9% · 24h
№ 01 Chain Health

8 pools, on schedule

8 pools produced today's 144 blocks at an average interval of 10.5 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target.

6.2 min
Median interval
half the blocks faster
59
Fast blocks1
under 5 min
90,386
Largest block
block 950,576
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 · 24.8h
Fast (<5 min) · 59 Normal · 63 Slow (>20 min) · 22
For the technical reader

Block timing. Mean interval 629.8 seconds (10.5 min) over 142 measured intervals across 144 blocks; median 373 seconds (6.2 min). Range 2 s to 3918 s (65.3 min). One sub-3-second interval observed.

Cadence. Average interval 10.5 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target. 8 pools produced today's blocks.

Largest block. Block 950,576 at 90,386 transactions, the peak load in the window. Avg tx/block across all 144 blocks was 1,887.

№ 02 Mining Distribution

8 pools produced today's 144 blocks

taal.com led at 30.6%. Distribution within normal range.

taal.com 30.6%
CUVVE 25.7%
SA100 14.6%
qdlnk 9.7%
Mining-Dutch 6.9%
GorillaPool 6.3%
molepool.com 2.8%
Kryptex 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 44, CUVVE 37, SA100 21, qdlnk 14, Mining-Dutch 10, GorillaPool 9, molepool.com 4, Kryptex 3. 142 of 144 blocks identified.

№ 03 Capital Flow

89 movements crossed the chain

No major-tier movements today.

0
Major
> 10K BSV
~$148,000+
15
Notable
1K – 10K BSV
~$14,800 – 148,000
74
Significant
100 – 1K BSV
~$1,480 – 14,800
Top movements
4,624.73BSV
≈ $68,446 09291eaf0c…
16 → 2 Consolidation
3,159.06BSV
≈ $46,754 aa7f44ffe6…
5 → 2 Consolidation
2,166.96BSV
≈ $32,071 be9ec1b9a6…
2 → 2 Neutral
2,160.69BSV
≈ $31,978 18e6798847…
2 → 8 Distribution
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
$14.80
▲ 0.9% over 24h
Throughput, avg
3tx/s
peak 151 tx/s · 10-min window
Avg tx / block1,887
Max tx / block90,386
Total transactions271,743
10-min peak90,386
For the technical reader

TPS is computed over the 24.8 hours of the scan window in 10-minute intervals, not per block. The peak is the busiest 10-minute window observed (90,386 transactions, ≈ 151 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

271,743 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 — 503 txs09:30 UTC — 0 txs09:40 UTC — 655 txs09:50 UTC — 0 txs10:00 UTC — 0 txs10:10 UTC — 0 txs10:20 UTC — 1,451 txs10:30 UTC — 0 txs10:40 UTC — 774 txs10:50 UTC — 0 txs11:00 UTC — 820 txs11:10 UTC — 3,889 txs11:20 UTC — 436 txs11:30 UTC — 453 txs11:40 UTC — 0 txs11:50 UTC — 1,429 txs12:00 UTC — 704 txs12:10 UTC — 0 txs12:20 UTC — 1,110 txs12:30 UTC — 525 txs12:40 UTC — 12 txs12:50 UTC — 0 txs13:00 UTC — 0 txs13:10 UTC — 1,234 txs13:20 UTC — 0 txs13:30 UTC — 566 txs13:40 UTC — 0 txs13:50 UTC — 542 txs14:00 UTC — 0 txs14:10 UTC — 0 txs14:20 UTC — 947 txs14:30 UTC — 330 txs14:40 UTC — 386 txs14:50 UTC — 0 txs15:00 UTC — 0 txs15:10 UTC — 0 txs15:20 UTC — 0 txs15:30 UTC — 1,711 txs15:40 UTC — 0 txs15:50 UTC — 674 txs16:00 UTC — 0 txs16:10 UTC — 988 txs16:20 UTC — 0 txs16:30 UTC — 0 txs16:40 UTC — 940 txs16:50 UTC — 0 txs17:00 UTC — 0 txs17:10 UTC — 1,205 txs17:20 UTC — 0 txs17:30 UTC — 917 txs17:40 UTC — 157 txs17:50 UTC — 0 txs18:00 UTC — 0 txs18:10 UTC — 1,093 txs18:20 UTC — 6 txs18:30 UTC — 0 txs18:40 UTC — 759 txs18:50 UTC — 0 txs19:00 UTC — 566 txs19:10 UTC — 643 txs19:20 UTC — 0 txs19:30 UTC — 0 txs19:40 UTC — 0 txs19:50 UTC — 0 txs20:00 UTC — 0 txs20:10 UTC — 0 txs20:20 UTC — 1,946 txs20:30 UTC — 176 txs20:40 UTC — 328 txs20:50 UTC — 235 txs21:00 UTC — 408 txs21:10 UTC — 0 txs21:20 UTC — 0 txs21:30 UTC — 0 txs21:40 UTC — 1,115 txs21:50 UTC — 374 txs22:00 UTC — 188 txs22:10 UTC — 10,527 txs22:20 UTC — 0 txs22:30 UTC — 715 txs22:40 UTC — 0 txs22:50 UTC — 701 txs23:00 UTC — 165 txs23:10 UTC — 0 txs23:20 UTC — 833 txs23:30 UTC — 414 txs23:40 UTC — 0 txs23:50 UTC — 2,227 txs00:00 UTC — 4,723 txs00:10 UTC — 2,272 txs00:20 UTC — 1,750 txs00:30 UTC — 0 txs00:40 UTC — 0 txs00:50 UTC — 5,181 txs01:00 UTC — 0 txs01:10 UTC — 0 txs01:20 UTC — 4,072 txs01:30 UTC — 47 txs01:40 UTC — 59 txs01:50 UTC — 1,071 txs02:00 UTC — 54 txs02:10 UTC — 65,626 txs66k02:20 UTC — 40,029 txs40k02:30 UTC — 90,386 txs90k02:40 UTC — 61 txs02:50 UTC — 414 txs03:00 UTC — 3,801 txs03:10 UTC — 142 txs03:20 UTC — 26 txs03:30 UTC — 148 txs03:40 UTC — 0 txs03:50 UTC — 0 txs04:00 UTC — 0 txs04:10 UTC — 0 txs04:20 UTC — 175 txs04:30 UTC — 0 txs04:40 UTC — 0 txs04:50 UTC — 0 txs05:00 UTC — 0 txs05:10 UTC — 567 txs05:20 UTC — 0 txs05:30 UTC — 0 txs05:40 UTC — 255 txs05:50 UTC — 115 txs06:00 UTC — 149 txs06:10 UTC — 168 txs06:20 UTC — 25 txs06:30 UTC — 291 txs06:40 UTC — 0 txs06:50 UTC — 0 txs07:00 UTC — 0 txs07:10 UTC — 741 txs07:20 UTC — 115 txs07:30 UTC — 0 txs07:40 UTC — 650 txs07:50 UTC — 142 txs08:00 UTC — 257 txs08:10 UTC — 94 txs08:20 UTC — 89 txs08:30 UTC — 0 txs08:40 UTC — 266 txs08:50 UTC — 0 txs09:00 UTC — 0 txs09:10 UTC — 496 txs09:20 UTC — 174 txs09:30 UTC — 0 txs09:40 UTC — 131 txs09:50 UTC — 59 txs10:00 UTC — 0 txs10:10 UTC — 145 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: 90,386 txs Coverage: 144 blocks · 24.8h 05-24 09:28 UTC → 05-25 10:18 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

0.6 million outputs, by purpose

The TxBlaster service produced 77.6% of transactions, posting paired payment and data-publication outputs continuously. The breakdown below isolates the remaining 22.4% 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 · 77.6%
22.4%
211,000 tx 60,743 tx · all other
Excluding TxBlaster3 · 141,951 outputs
Payment 60.5% 85,912
P2PKH 84,802 · P2PK 1,100 · Multisig 10
Data Publication 39.3% 55,825
OP_RETURN 55,556 · Ordinal envelopes 233 · Spendable metadata 36
Contracts & Tokens 0.15% 214
STAS Gen 3: 164 · Custom locking: 50 · 7 unique structures

Of 56,039 non-payment outputs in this window, 99.1% were prunable (OP_RETURN) and 0.9% 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 55,556Spendable metadata 36Ordinal envelope 233STAS Gen 3 164Custom locking 50
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 78% 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 214 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
Metanet4 1,322MAP 1,240B:// 828AIP 3541Sat-Ordinal 237BSV-21 136STAS 64BAP-ID 4
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 367text/markdown 354application/bsv-20 136application/json 92image/jpeg 66text/html 63image/png 50image/webp 47
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

86 SHIP endpoints · 108 SLAP endpoints

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

SHIP · intake side
86endpoints
across 66 topics
SLAP · query side
108endpoints
across 65 topics
Top topic managers · SHIP (of 66)
tm_template 14tm_users 9tm_uhrp 8tm_plite 8tm_meter 7
Top lookup services · SLAP (of 65)
ls_template 13ls_plite 10ls_uhrp 8ls_users 8ls_identity 7
Directory topics tm_ship (27) · tm_slap (27) · ls_ship (26) · ls_slap (26)
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 2026-05-25 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 44,358 transactions. Most chain activity carries no such identifier; the names below are services whose on-chain shape is recognizable from prior analysis.

GaiaLog 44,358TreeChat 1,062dxs 646MNEE 1243D Ordi 66OYO 25ButterCup 22CASHEIO 16BSV Live Master 9memo.cash 8ForgeChain 7maplock 3BSV Feed/View 2mintBlue 1
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

Data Carrier (OP_RETURN)

DATA_CARRIER · selected from 266,556 candidates

Data Carrier (OP_RETURN) with a 679-byte payload

What it does. This script begins with OP_RETURN, which terminates execution and marks the output as unspendable. The remaining bytes carry arbitrary data.

Why it matters. Currently the most common method for data publication. Used by protocols like B://, MAP, AIP, and TreeChat for files, metadata, and social content.

TX 023428099c… Block 950,485 679 script bytes
Opcodes used
0
Script preview
OP_0 07476169614c6f670276314d97027b22617070223a22476169614c6f67222c22736368656d615f76657273696f6e223a22312e312e30222c22646174615f74797065223a22616476616e6365645f6d657472696373222c2274696d657374616d70223a313737393631323531303331392c227061796c6f6164223a7b226c6f636174696f6e223a2253616e64204d6f756e74616
Skeleton
OP_0 <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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