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Edition 150
Friday · July 31, 2026
BSV Network · 24 hours ending July 31, 09:15 UTC

Edition 150

Edited by Bridget Doran · Scanned 09:36 UTC, July 31 · Blocks 960,085 → 960,228 · 2,294,530 transactions
Largest move
$909K
71,792 BSV · whale tier
Avg block time
10.2min
near schedule
Throughput
26tx/s
peak 425 tx/s
BSV price
$12.66
▲ 1.3% · 24h
№ 01 Chain Health

9 pools, on schedule

9 pools produced today's 144 blocks at an average interval of 10.2 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target.

7.2 min
Median interval
half the blocks faster
57
Fast blocks1
under 5 min
252,240 txs
Busiest block
block 960,126
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 · 24.2h
Fast (<5 min) · 57 Normal · 68 Slow (>20 min) · 19
For the technical reader

Block timing. Mean interval 614.4 seconds (10.2 min) over 142 measured intervals across 144 blocks; median 433 seconds (7.2 min). Range 13 s to 4530 s (75.5 min).

Cadence. Average interval 10.2 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target. 9 pools produced today's blocks.

Largest block. Block 960,126 at 252,240 transactions, the peak load in the window. Avg tx/block across all 144 blocks was 15,934.

№ 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-9. 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
6
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-9 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 960,246). 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 21.5%. Distribution within normal range.

Mining-Dutch 21.5%
SA100 18.1%
CUVVE 15.3%
taal.com 12.5%
qdlnk 10.4%
molepool.com 8.3%
GorillaPool 7.6%
taal.com_Teranode 3.5%
Kryptex 2.8%
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 31, SA100 26, CUVVE 22, taal.com 18, qdlnk 15, molepool.com 12, GorillaPool 11, taal.com_Teranode 5, Kryptex 4. 144 of 144 blocks identified.

№ 04 Capital Flow

316 movements crossed the chain

3 of them moved more than 10,000 BSV, a combined ~$2.0 million at today's price.

3
Major
> 10K BSV
~$126,600+
19
Notable
1K – 10K BSV
~$12,660 – 126,600
294
Significant
100 – 1K BSV
~$1,266 – 12,660
Top movements
71,792.47BSV
≈ $908,893 ef3162f634…
2 → 2 Neutral
71,777.33BSV
≈ $908,701 a2072ae103…
2 → 2 Neutral
11,150.19BSV
≈ $141,161 29a02abf51…
1 → 2 Neutral
4,451.85BSV
≈ $56,360 77d08c14a2…
13 → 2 Consolidation
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 152 days

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

New to the radar
158d4hT9pBvAJPBr7M… 71,792 BSV First appearance
1EH4edroZxxVza3yV5… 71,777 BSV First appearance
13ihkHDFgocqfeCcsA… 11,150 BSV First appearance
Recurring addresses
Address Behavior Confidence Active
6,795,784 BSV · 281 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-04 → 07-29
3,055,908 BSV · 116 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-02 → 07-31
2,657,194 BSV · 115 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-02 → 07-28
13,103,630 BSV · 84 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-08 → 07-31
0 BSV · 83 txs
Accumulator High 03-08 → 07-31
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 152-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
$12.66
▲ 1.3% over 24h
Throughput, avg
26tx/s
peak 425 tx/s · 10-min window
Avg tx / block15,934
Max tx / block252,240
Total transactions2,294,530
10-min peak255,174
For the technical reader

TPS is computed over the 24.2 hours of the scan window in 10-minute intervals, not per block. The peak is the busiest 10-minute window observed (255,174 transactions, ≈ 425 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 26 hours

2,294,530 transactions mapped to 10-minute windows. The brightest cell is the busiest window of the day.

09121518210003060910:00:10:20:30:40:5009:00 UTC — 4,478 txs09:10 UTC — 10,416 txs09:20 UTC — 0 txs09:30 UTC — 15,050 txs09:40 UTC — 5,150 txs09:50 UTC — 0 txs10:00 UTC — 17,736 txs10:10 UTC — 5,752 txs10:20 UTC — 1,711 txs10:30 UTC — 0 txs10:40 UTC — 255,174 txs255k10:50 UTC — 0 txs11:00 UTC — 147,258 txs147k11:10 UTC — 5,938 txs11:20 UTC — 31,878 txs11:30 UTC — 3,488 txs11:40 UTC — 6,889 txs11:50 UTC — 3,700 txs12:00 UTC — 10,298 txs12:10 UTC — 0 txs12:20 UTC — 0 txs12:30 UTC — 0 txs12:40 UTC — 23,592 txs12:50 UTC — 6,593 txs13:00 UTC — 6,249 txs13:10 UTC — 12,254 txs13:20 UTC — 0 txs13:30 UTC — 25,496 txs13:40 UTC — 0 txs13:50 UTC — 12,210 txs14:00 UTC — 17,081 txs14:10 UTC — 0 txs14:20 UTC — 0 txs14:30 UTC — 29,172 txs14:40 UTC — 10,248 txs14:50 UTC — 0 txs15:00 UTC — 0 txs15:10 UTC — 0 txs15:20 UTC — 0 txs15:30 UTC — 0 txs15:40 UTC — 252,240 txs252k15:50 UTC — 7,638 txs16:00 UTC — 9,715 txs16:10 UTC — 6,054 txs16:20 UTC — 4,987 txs16:30 UTC — 14,138 txs16:40 UTC — 0 txs16:50 UTC — 3,750 txs17:00 UTC — 20,197 txs17:10 UTC — 3,291 txs17:20 UTC — 150,802 txs151k17:30 UTC — 67,027 txs17:40 UTC — 5,329 txs17:50 UTC — 5,312 txs18:00 UTC — 8,308 txs18:10 UTC — 7,515 txs18:20 UTC — 0 txs18:30 UTC — 11,459 txs18:40 UTC — 0 txs18:50 UTC — 0 txs19:00 UTC — 10,427 txs19:10 UTC — 7,899 txs19:20 UTC — 64,364 txs19:30 UTC — 0 txs19:40 UTC — 0 txs19:50 UTC — 149,006 txs149k20:00 UTC — 0 txs20:10 UTC — 0 txs20:20 UTC — 2,951 txs20:30 UTC — 0 txs20:40 UTC — 0 txs20:50 UTC — 0 txs21:00 UTC — 0 txs21:10 UTC — 0 txs21:20 UTC — 0 txs21:30 UTC — 0 txs21:40 UTC — 39,803 txs21:50 UTC — 5,980 txs22:00 UTC — 2,128 txs22:10 UTC — 0 txs22:20 UTC — 0 txs22:30 UTC — 103,667 txs104k22:40 UTC — 107,618 txs108k22:50 UTC — 3,200 txs23:00 UTC — 2,754 txs23:10 UTC — 1,716 txs23:20 UTC — 2,091 txs23:30 UTC — 5,648 txs23:40 UTC — 3,402 txs23:50 UTC — 16 txs00:00 UTC — 682 txs00:10 UTC — 0 txs00:20 UTC — 7,917 txs00:30 UTC — 3,185 txs00:40 UTC — 0 txs00:50 UTC — 5,608 txs01:00 UTC — 13 txs01:10 UTC — 0 txs01:20 UTC — 41,070 txs01:30 UTC — 0 txs01:40 UTC — 0 txs01:50 UTC — 176,645 txs177k02:00 UTC — 90,906 txs02:10 UTC — 24,887 txs02:20 UTC — 0 txs02:30 UTC — 101,808 txs02:40 UTC — 637 txs02:50 UTC — 0 txs03:00 UTC — 0 txs03:10 UTC — 6,319 txs03:20 UTC — 2,260 txs03:30 UTC — 0 txs03:40 UTC — 0 txs03:50 UTC — 0 txs04:00 UTC — 0 txs04:10 UTC — 9,445 txs04:20 UTC — 0 txs04:30 UTC — 2,922 txs04:40 UTC — 1,082 txs04:50 UTC — 1,896 txs05:00 UTC — 0 txs05:10 UTC — 5,146 txs05:20 UTC — 0 txs05:30 UTC — 2,210 txs05:40 UTC — 0 txs05:50 UTC — 2,963 txs06:00 UTC — 2,474 txs06:10 UTC — 3,660 txs06:20 UTC — 1,754 txs06:30 UTC — 1,397 txs06:40 UTC — 0 txs06:50 UTC — 0 txs07:00 UTC — 0 txs07:10 UTC — 8,662 txs07:20 UTC — 0 txs07:30 UTC — 0 txs07:40 UTC — 7,649 txs07:50 UTC — 0 txs08:00 UTC — 3,697 txs08:10 UTC — 0 txs08:20 UTC — 0 txs08:30 UTC — 0 txs08:40 UTC — 0 txs08:50 UTC — 0 txs09:00 UTC — 0 txs09:10 UTC — 19,393 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: 255,174 txs Coverage: 144 blocks · 24.2h 07-30 09:02 UTC → 07-31 09:15 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

4.6 million outputs, by purpose

The TxBlaster service produced 70.8% of transactions, posting paired payment and data-publication outputs continuously. The breakdown below isolates the remaining 29.2% 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 · 70.8%
29.2%
1,623,635 tx 670,895 tx · all other
Excluding TxBlaster3 · 1,390,399 outputs
Payment 52.5% 729,803
P2PKH 725,584 · P2PK 4,179 · Multisig 40
Data Publication 47.2% 656,685
OP_RETURN 655,665 · Ordinal envelopes 833 · Spendable metadata 187
Contracts & Tokens 0.28% 3,911
STAS Gen 3: 89 · Custom locking: 3,822 · 16 unique structures

Of 660,596 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 655,665Spendable metadata 187Ordinal envelope 833STAS Gen 3 89Custom locking 3,822
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 71% 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. 16 unique structures observed today across 3,911 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 4,605AIP 3,469Metanet4 2,895B:// 2,6611Sat-Ordinal 833BSV-21 468STAS 19OPUB 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/markdown 1,893application/bsv-20 468text/plain 367image/webp 280application/op-ns 213image/jpeg 143image/png 50application/json 37
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 2026-07-31 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

AIRCHIVE led identifiable activity at 641,628 transactions. Most chain activity carries no such identifier; the names below are services whose on-chain shape is recognizable from prior analysis.

AIRCHIVE 641,628Twetch 2,921TreeChat 1,452dxs 445OYO 204MNEE 124Indelible 1183D Ordi 78mintBlue 30BSV Live Master 21ButterCup 11memo.cash 9ForgeChain 2GaiaLog 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.

№ 12 Script of the Day

Programmable Contract

CONTRACT · selected from 3,822 candidates

Programmable Contract with a 2,100-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 d7286fb829… Block 960,085 2,100 script bytes
Opcodes used
DROPCHECKSIG
Script preview
a362707584a2616e6a616e63686f72547970656176636c6569a2616e68616e63686f72496461767432313338303037344b4d334f384f565350423132a2616e677061796c6f61646176a466737461747573664c4150534544696c6567616c4e616d65781847204520422050524f50455254494553204c494d495445446c6a7572697364696374696f6e62474270726567697374726174
Skeleton
<DATA> OP_DROP <DATA> 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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