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Edition 147
Tuesday · July 28, 2026
BSV Network · 24 hours ending July 28, 09:12 UTC

Edition 147

Edited by Bridget Doran · Scanned 09:33 UTC, July 28 · Blocks 959,676 → 959,819 · 1,804,145 transactions
Largest move
$84K
6,425 BSV · notable tier
Avg block time
9.6min
near schedule
Throughput
22tx/s
peak 457 tx/s
BSV price
$13.05
▼ 4.6% · 24h
№ 01 Chain Health

9 pools, on schedule

9 pools produced today's 144 blocks at an average interval of 9.6 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target.

6.7 min
Median interval
half the blocks faster
59
Fast blocks1
under 5 min
274,095 txs
Busiest block
block 959,712
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 · 22.8h
Fast (<5 min) · 59 Normal · 65 Slow (>20 min) · 20
For the technical reader

Block timing. Mean interval 578.4 seconds (9.6 min) over 142 measured intervals across 144 blocks; median 400 seconds (6.7 min). Range 1 s to 2801 s (46.7 min). One sub-3-second interval observed.

Cadence. Average interval 9.6 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target. 9 pools produced today's blocks.

Largest block. Block 959,712 at 274,095 transactions, the peak load in the window. Avg tx/block across all 144 blocks was 12,529.

№ 02 Teranode Network

9 Teranode operators visible on the public network

At least 9 operators are announcing on the public gossip network (2 acting as public relays), running versions from v0.13.1 to v0.16.0-beta-1. This is the publicly-visible set only; others almost certainly run Teranode without announcing.

9
Visible
announcing on mesh
2
Public relays
accept external tx
7
Caught up → tip
synced to latest block
Versions in use · 9 operators
v0.13.1 1 · v0.15.3 1 · v0.15.6-beta-1 1 · v0.15.6 3 · v0.15.7-beta-1 1 · v0.15.8-beta-2 1 · v0.16.0-beta-1 1
For the technical reader

Source: node_status messages on the public BSV gossip layer, observed by our own libp2p listener and deduplicated by peer ID. This counts the publicly-announcing set only — a node that does not broadcast status, or runs inside a private cluster, will not appear, so read it as a floor, not a full census.

“Caught up” means within one block of the chain tip (currently 959,830). Stalled or still-syncing nodes are excluded from that count. “Public relay” here means a node that publicly forwards gossip to the rest of the mesh; only two do, and both announce under the same operator label and share infrastructure, so the public mesh’s reachability appears to lean on a single operator.

№ 03 Mining Distribution

9 pools produced today's 144 blocks

Mining-Dutch led at 26.4%. Distribution within normal range.

Mining-Dutch 26.4%
CUVVE 18.8%
taal.com 13.2%
qdlnk 11.1%
molepool.com 10.4%
SA100 8.3%
GorillaPool 8.3%
taal.com_Teranode 2.1%
Kryptex 1.4%
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: Mining-Dutch 38, CUVVE 27, taal.com 19, qdlnk 16, molepool.com 15, SA100 12, GorillaPool 12, taal.com_Teranode 3, Kryptex 2. 144 of 144 blocks identified.

№ 04 Capital Flow

196 movements crossed the chain

No major-tier movements today.

0
Major
> 10K BSV
~$130,500+
37
Notable
1K – 10K BSV
~$13,050 – 130,500
159
Significant
100 – 1K BSV
~$1,305 – 13,050
Top movements
6,425.30BSV
≈ $83,850 62a339d7ee…
3 → 1 Neutral
4,055.40BSV
≈ $52,923 da7dbad4e6…
1 → 2 Neutral
3,835.03BSV
≈ $50,047 ae257b6834…
1 → 2 Neutral
3,486.13BSV
≈ $45,494 f5d48b45d1…
1 → 3 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).

№ 05 Address Intelligence

71 tracked addresses across 149 days

8 new addresses on the radar today. (what does this mean?)

New to the radar
17mAfTw2of3q5FP3tc… 6,425 BSV First appearance
1F9sUJ1xPBsFG7mHWo… 3,835 BSV First appearance
1GRjbsRmPooukjEX5n… 3,486 BSV First appearance
Recurring addresses
Address Behavior Confidence Active
6,789,103 BSV · 280 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-04 → 07-26
3,050,956 BSV · 115 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-02 → 07-27
2,657,194 BSV · 115 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-02 → 07-28
12,672,866 BSV · 81 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-08 → 07-27
0 BSV · 80 txs
Accumulator High 03-08 → 07-27
How to read this

New to the radar flags addresses from today's top whale movements that have not appeared in any whale-tier transaction during the observation window. This could indicate a new large holder, a previously sub-threshold address crossing into whale territory, or a long-dormant address reactivating.

Recurring addresses are identified by tracking output scripts across all whale transactions (≥ 100 BSV) over the full 149-day observation window. An address appearing here has been involved in large-value movements on multiple separate days.

Behavior is based on whether an address predominantly receives (Accumulator), predominantly sends (Distributor), or does both in roughly equal measure (Exchange-Like).

Confidence reflects how many indicators align: transaction frequency, directional balance, and tier presence. High = 3+ indicators; Medium = 2; Low = 1.

All classifications are probabilistic. No identity or ownership claims are made. Addresses are derived from transaction output scripts.

№ 06 Throughput & Market
BSV / USD
$13.05
▼ 4.6% over 24h
Throughput, avg
22tx/s
peak 457 tx/s · 10-min window
Avg tx / block12,529
Max tx / block274,095
Total transactions1,804,145
10-min peak274,095
For the technical reader

TPS is computed over the 22.8 hours of the scan window in 10-minute intervals, not per block. The peak is the busiest 10-minute window observed (274,095 transactions, ≈ 457 tx/s for that window).

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

№ 07 Transaction Velocity

Activity by hour, across 25 hours

1,804,145 transactions mapped to 10-minute windows. The brightest cell is the busiest window of the day.

101316192201040710:00:10:20:30:40:5010:00 UTC — 0 txs10:10 UTC — 0 txs10:20 UTC — 44,321 txs10:30 UTC — 0 txs10:40 UTC — 0 txs10:50 UTC — 0 txs11:00 UTC — 97,736 txs11:10 UTC — 0 txs11:20 UTC — 0 txs11:30 UTC — 0 txs11:40 UTC — 0 txs11:50 UTC — 200,740 txs201k12:00 UTC — 351 txs12:10 UTC — 153 txs12:20 UTC — 0 txs12:30 UTC — 367 txs12:40 UTC — 0 txs12:50 UTC — 0 txs13:00 UTC — 1,384 txs13:10 UTC — 0 txs13:20 UTC — 68,941 txs13:30 UTC — 45,400 txs13:40 UTC — 86,887 txs13:50 UTC — 0 txs14:00 UTC — 165,494 txs165k14:10 UTC — 35,933 txs14:20 UTC — 684 txs14:30 UTC — 0 txs14:40 UTC — 132,145 txs132k14:50 UTC — 37,586 txs15:00 UTC — 30,108 txs15:10 UTC — 0 txs15:20 UTC — 0 txs15:30 UTC — 1,302 txs15:40 UTC — 324 txs15:50 UTC — 108 txs16:00 UTC — 0 txs16:10 UTC — 98,908 txs16:20 UTC — 0 txs16:30 UTC — 198,907 txs199k16:40 UTC — 0 txs16:50 UTC — 230,729 txs231k17:00 UTC — 0 txs17:10 UTC — 0 txs17:20 UTC — 0 txs17:30 UTC — 274,095 txs274k17:40 UTC — 168 txs17:50 UTC — 61 txs18:00 UTC — 0 txs18:10 UTC — 389 txs18:20 UTC — 0 txs18:30 UTC — 0 txs18:40 UTC — 581 txs18:50 UTC — 159 txs19:00 UTC — 113 txs19:10 UTC — 0 txs19:20 UTC — 268 txs19:30 UTC — 184 txs19:40 UTC — 181 txs19:50 UTC — 0 txs20:00 UTC — 0 txs20:10 UTC — 349 txs20:20 UTC — 507 txs20:30 UTC — 0 txs20:40 UTC — 0 txs20:50 UTC — 820 txs21:00 UTC — 0 txs21:10 UTC — 490 txs21:20 UTC — 0 txs21:30 UTC — 476 txs21:40 UTC — 375 txs21:50 UTC — 386 txs22:00 UTC — 259 txs22:10 UTC — 43 txs22:20 UTC — 0 txs22:30 UTC — 616 txs22:40 UTC — 248 txs22:50 UTC — 296 txs23:00 UTC — 368 txs23:10 UTC — 0 txs23:20 UTC — 711 txs23:30 UTC — 311 txs23:40 UTC — 0 txs23:50 UTC — 540 txs00:00 UTC — 1,008 txs00:10 UTC — 0 txs00:20 UTC — 737 txs00:30 UTC — 282 txs00:40 UTC — 252 txs00:50 UTC — 0 txs01:00 UTC — 699 txs01:10 UTC — 0 txs01:20 UTC — 376 txs01:30 UTC — 7,577 txs01:40 UTC — 3,951 txs01:50 UTC — 3,109 txs02:00 UTC — 17,272 txs02:10 UTC — 0 txs02:20 UTC — 202 txs02:30 UTC — 128 txs02:40 UTC — 0 txs02:50 UTC — 304 txs03:00 UTC — 112 txs03:10 UTC — 50 txs03:20 UTC — 0 txs03:30 UTC — 184 txs03:40 UTC — 32 txs03:50 UTC — 70 txs04:00 UTC — 32 txs04:10 UTC — 0 txs04:20 UTC — 0 txs04:30 UTC — 0 txs04:40 UTC — 263 txs04:50 UTC — 41 txs05:00 UTC — 123 txs05:10 UTC — 0 txs05:20 UTC — 0 txs05:30 UTC — 1,499 txs05:40 UTC — 382 txs05:50 UTC — 58 txs06:00 UTC — 160 txs06:10 UTC — 0 txs06:20 UTC — 157 txs06:30 UTC — 252 txs06:40 UTC — 0 txs06:50 UTC — 288 txs07:00 UTC — 27 txs07:10 UTC — 233 txs07:20 UTC — 0 txs07:30 UTC — 175 txs07:40 UTC — 0 txs07:50 UTC — 306 txs08:00 UTC — 0 txs08:10 UTC — 259 txs08:20 UTC — 210 txs08:30 UTC — 0 txs08:40 UTC — 0 txs08:50 UTC — 310 txs09:00 UTC — 1,326 txs09:10 UTC — 197 txs09:20 UTC — 0 txs09:30 UTC — 0 txs09:40 UTC — 0 txs09:50 UTC — 0 txs10:00 UTC — 0 txs10:10 UTC — 0 txs10:20 UTC — 0 txs10:30 UTC — 0 txs10:40 UTC — 0 txs10:50 UTC — 0 txsActivity:High
Peak 10-min window: 274,095 txs Coverage: 144 blocks · 22.8h 07-27 10:24 UTC → 07-28 09:12 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.
№ 08 On-chain Activity

3.7 million outputs, by purpose

The TxBlaster service produced 96.8% of transactions, posting paired payment and data-publication outputs continuously. The breakdown below isolates the remaining 3.2% 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 · 96.8%
3.2%
1,745,960 tx 58,185 tx · all other
Excluding TxBlaster3 · 186,888 outputs
Payment 49.9% 93,291
P2PKH 89,193 · P2PK 4,085 · Multisig 13
Data Publication 25.1% 46,997
OP_RETURN 15,521 · Ordinal envelopes 31,456 · Spendable metadata 20
Contracts & Tokens 24.93% 46,600
STAS Gen 3: 122 · Custom locking: 46,478 · 12 unique structures

Of 93,597 non-payment outputs in this window, 16.6% were prunable (OP_RETURN) and 83.4% 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 15,521Spendable metadata 20Ordinal envelope 31,456STAS Gen 3 122Custom locking 46,478
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 97% 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. 12 unique structures observed today across 46,600 contract outputs.

№ 09 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 36,1051Sat-Ordinal 31,458AIP 3,993B:// 2,596Metanet4 2,575BSV-21 136STAS 33OPUB 21
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 31,401text/markdown 1,985image/webp 233image/jpeg 151application/bsv-20 136image/png 60text/html 49application/json 41
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).

№ 10 Overlay Directory

128 SHIP endpoints · 127 SLAP endpoints

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

SHIP · intake side
128endpoints
across 76 topics
SLAP · query side
127endpoints
across 75 topics
Top topic managers · SHIP (of 76)
tm_plite 15tm_template 14tm_uhrp 12tm_users 11tm_zed 8
Top lookup services · SLAP (of 75)
ls_plite 15ls_template 13ls_uhrp 12ls_users 10ls_zed 8
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 2026-07-28 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.

№ 11 Identifiable Activity

Applications and tokens with recognizable fingerprints

Twetch led identifiable activity at 3,360 transactions. Most chain activity carries no such identifier; the names below are services whose on-chain shape is recognizable from prior analysis.

Twetch 3,360TreeChat 1,360dxs 661OYO 466Indelible 149memo.cash 1383D Ordi 101MNEE 75mintBlue 32BSV Feed/View 26BSV Live Master 25ButterCup 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.

№ 12 Script of the Day

Standard Payment (P2PKH)

P2PKH · selected from 89,193 candidates

Standard Payment (P2PKH) with a 25-byte payload

What it does. This script locks coins to a hash (fingerprint) of a public key. To spend them, the spender must reveal the public key and provide a valid signature proving they control the matching private key.

Why it matters. This template forms the standard payment mechanism in the original Bitcoin design and is widely used by wallets.

TX 6a8b70e94a… Block 959,676 25 script bytes
Opcodes used
DUPHASH160EQUALVERIFYCHECKSIG
Script preview
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 094e2319492c6bf927250fa0884f52b60eaeea13 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG
Skeleton
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 <DATA> OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG
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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