BSV Network · 24 hours ending August 25, 09:15 UTC
Edition 175
Edited by Bridget Doran·Scanned 09:31 UTC, August 25·Blocks 963,686 → 963,829·327,381 transactions
Largest move
$2.61M
156,087 BSV · whale tier
Avg block time
10.3min
near schedule
Throughput
4tx/s
peak 317 tx/s
BSV price
$16.73
▲ 1.0% · 24h
№ 01Chain Health
9 pools, on schedule
9 pools produced today's 144 blocks at an average interval of 10.3 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target.
7 min
Median interval
half the blocks faster
52
Fast blocks1
under 5 min
190,242 txs
Busiest block
block 963,790
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 · 24.3h
Fast (<5 min) · 52Normal · 72Slow (>20 min) · 20
For the technical reader
Block timing. Mean interval 620.5 seconds (10.3 min) over 141 measured intervals across 144 blocks; median 419 seconds (7 min). Range 2 s to 3790 s (63.2 min). One sub-3-second interval observed.
Cadence. Average interval 10.3 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target. 9 pools produced today's blocks.
Largest block. Block 963,790 at 190,242 transactions, the peak load in the window. Avg tx/block across all 144 blocks was 2,273.
№ 02Teranode Network
10 Teranode operators visible on the public network
At least 10 operators are announcing on the public gossip network (2 acting as public relays), running versions from v0.0.0-20260819124744-523878ba8 to v0.16.0-beta-11. This is the publicly-visible set only; others almost certainly run Teranode without announcing.
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 963,842). 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.
№ 03Mining Distribution
9 pools produced today's 144 blocks
CUVVE led at 17.4%. Distribution within normal range.
CUVVE17.4%
SA10016%
qdlnk15.3%
molepool.com13.9%
Kryptex8.3%
taal.com8.3%
GorillaPool7.6%
Bitofsin4.9%
unknown4.9%
Mining-Dutch3.5%
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.
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).
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 177-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.
№ 06Throughput & Market
BSV / USD
$16.73
▲ 1.0% over 24h
Throughput, avg
4tx/s
peak 317 tx/s · 10-min window
Avg tx / block2,273
Max tx / block190,242
Total transactions327,381
10-min peak190,242
For the technical reader
TPS is computed over the 24.3 hours of the scan window in 10-minute intervals, not per block. The peak is the busiest 10-minute window observed (190,242 transactions, ≈ 317 tx/s for that window).
Price source: real-time quote at scan completion. 24h change is from a rolling 24-hour spot reference.
№ 07Transaction Velocity
Activity by hour, across 27 hours
327,381 transactions mapped to 10-minute windows. The brightest cell is the busiest window of the day.
Peak 10-min window: 190,242 txsCoverage: 144 blocks · 24.3h08-24 08:58 UTC → 08-25 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.
№ 08On-chain Activity
1.7 million outputs, by purpose
The TxBlaster service produced 85.0% of transactions, posting paired payment and data-publication outputs continuously. The breakdown below isolates the remaining 15.0% 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.
Of 75,382 non-payment outputs in this window, 18.0% were prunable (OP_RETURN) and 82.0% 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.
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 85% 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:
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. 9 unique structures observed today across 61,383 contract outputs.
№ 09Protocols & 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.
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
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).
№ 10Overlay Directory
143 SHIP endpoints · 136 SLAP endpoints
BRC-88 topic registrations announce who is hosting which overlay services on chain.
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 2026-08-25 11:16 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.
№ 11Identifiable Activity
Applications and tokens with recognizable fingerprints
Twetch led identifiable activity at 2,079 transactions. Most chain activity carries no such identifier; the names below are services whose on-chain shape is recognizable from prior analysis.
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.
№ 12Script of the Day
Programmable Contract
CONTRACT · selected from 61,300 candidates
Programmable Contract with a 2,109-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.
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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