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Edition 175
Tuesday · August 25, 2026
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
№ 01 Chain 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) · 52 Normal · 72 Slow (>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.

№ 02 Teranode 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.

10
Visible
announcing on mesh
2
Public relays
accept external tx
6
Caught up → tip
synced to latest block
Versions in use · 10 operators
v0.0.0-20260819124744-523878ba8 1 · v0.13.1 1 · v0.15.6 2 · v0.15.8-beta-2 5 · v0.16.0-beta-11 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 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.

№ 03 Mining Distribution

9 pools produced today's 144 blocks

CUVVE led at 17.4%. Distribution within normal range.

CUVVE 17.4%
SA100 16%
qdlnk 15.3%
molepool.com 13.9%
Kryptex 8.3%
taal.com 8.3%
GorillaPool 7.6%
Bitofsin 4.9%
unknown 4.9%
Mining-Dutch 3.5%
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.

Block counts: CUVVE 25, SA100 23, qdlnk 22, molepool.com 20, Kryptex 12, taal.com 12, GorillaPool 11, Bitofsin 7, unknown 7, Mining-Dutch 5. 137 of 144 blocks identified.

№ 04 Capital Flow

188 movements crossed the chain

13 of them moved more than 10,000 BSV, a combined ~$7.0 million at today's price.

13
Major
> 10K BSV
~$167,300+
11
Notable
1K – 10K BSV
~$16,730 – 167,300
164
Significant
100 – 1K BSV
~$1,673 – 16,730
Top movements
156,087.18BSV
≈ $2,611,339 84d01e7a5a…
4 → 3 Complex
71,166.14BSV
≈ $1,190,610 7e488b0165…
2 → 2 Neutral
26,238.07BSV
≈ $438,963 0c0d8401a5…
1 → 2 Neutral
26,138.07BSV
≈ $437,290 561aa630b0…
1 → 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).

№ 05 Address Intelligence

70 tracked addresses across 177 days

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

New to the radar
19QWdk1bKPaJVDXnka… 156,087 BSV First appearance
16vWbMnQpEzX3LLRp8… 71,166 BSV First appearance
1ELHQJphQ9xfZpuCCp… 26,238 BSV First appearance
Recurring addresses
Address Behavior Confidence Active
7,424,731 BSV · 347 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-04 → 08-25
2,775,220 BSV · 133 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-02 → 08-19
3,732,232 BSV · 132 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-02 → 08-25
15,730,218 BSV · 101 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-08 → 08-25
0 BSV · 100 txs
Accumulator High 03-08 → 08-25
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 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.

№ 06 Throughput & 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.

№ 07 Transaction 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.

08111417202302050810:00:10:20:30:40:5008:00 UTC — 0 txs08:10 UTC — 0 txs08:20 UTC — 0 txs08:30 UTC — 0 txs08:40 UTC — 0 txs08:50 UTC — 503 txs09:00 UTC — 0 txs09:10 UTC — 0 txs09:20 UTC — 3,090 txs09:30 UTC — 0 txs09:40 UTC — 26 txs09:50 UTC — 0 txs10:00 UTC — 8,727 txs10:10 UTC — 593 txs10:20 UTC — 169 txs10:30 UTC — 2,012 txs10:40 UTC — 3,022 txs10:50 UTC — 2,668 txs11:00 UTC — 0 txs11:10 UTC — 0 txs11:20 UTC — 0 txs11:30 UTC — 60 txs11:40 UTC — 7,887 txs11:50 UTC — 16 txs12:00 UTC — 0 txs12:10 UTC — 5,662 txs12:20 UTC — 0 txs12:30 UTC — 32 txs12:40 UTC — 2,190 txs12:50 UTC — 3,843 txs13:00 UTC — 1,308 txs13:10 UTC — 1,994 txs13:20 UTC — 615 txs13:30 UTC — 1,535 txs13:40 UTC — 2,552 txs13:50 UTC — 1,763 txs14:00 UTC — 0 txs14:10 UTC — 0 txs14:20 UTC — 3,096 txs14:30 UTC — 771 txs14:40 UTC — 0 txs14:50 UTC — 5,046 txs15:00 UTC — 0 txs15:10 UTC — 2,277 txs15:20 UTC — 0 txs15:30 UTC — 1,967 txs15:40 UTC — 1,400 txs15:50 UTC — 1,948 txs16:00 UTC — 0 txs16:10 UTC — 1,843 txs16:20 UTC — 0 txs16:30 UTC — 0 txs16:40 UTC — 12,594 txs16:50 UTC — 0 txs17:00 UTC — 0 txs17:10 UTC — 12,480 txs17:20 UTC — 276 txs17:30 UTC — 785 txs17:40 UTC — 1,801 txs17:50 UTC — 0 txs18:00 UTC — 1,013 txs18:10 UTC — 512 txs18:20 UTC — 173 txs18:30 UTC — 1,331 txs18:40 UTC — 3 txs18:50 UTC — 710 txs19:00 UTC — 277 txs19:10 UTC — 0 txs19:20 UTC — 398 txs19:30 UTC — 0 txs19:40 UTC — 777 txs19:50 UTC — 237 txs20:00 UTC — 0 txs20:10 UTC — 33 txs20:20 UTC — 461 txs20:30 UTC — 0 txs20:40 UTC — 0 txs20:50 UTC — 0 txs21:00 UTC — 0 txs21:10 UTC — 1,167 txs21:20 UTC — 0 txs21:30 UTC — 0 txs21:40 UTC — 13 txs21:50 UTC — 0 txs22:00 UTC — 32 txs22:10 UTC — 0 txs22:20 UTC — 1,647 txs22:30 UTC — 371 txs22:40 UTC — 1,693 txs22:50 UTC — 0 txs23:00 UTC — 0 txs23:10 UTC — 0 txs23:20 UTC — 0 txs23:30 UTC — 0 txs23:40 UTC — 891 txs23:50 UTC — 18 txs00:00 UTC — 7,868 txs00:10 UTC — 668 txs00:20 UTC — 0 txs00:30 UTC — 702 txs00:40 UTC — 0 txs00:50 UTC — 0 txs01:00 UTC — 0 txs01:10 UTC — 979 txs01:20 UTC — 381 txs01:30 UTC — 0 txs01:40 UTC — 454 txs01:50 UTC — 238 txs02:00 UTC — 145 txs02:10 UTC — 272 txs02:20 UTC — 407 txs02:30 UTC — 149 txs02:40 UTC — 143 txs02:50 UTC — 308 txs03:00 UTC — 138 txs03:10 UTC — 0 txs03:20 UTC — 412 txs03:30 UTC — 315 txs03:40 UTC — 0 txs03:50 UTC — 0 txs04:00 UTC — 326 txs04:10 UTC — 0 txs04:20 UTC — 0 txs04:30 UTC — 0 txs04:40 UTC — 190,242 txs190k04:50 UTC — 10,582 txs05:00 UTC — 92 txs05:10 UTC — 213 txs05:20 UTC — 0 txs05:30 UTC — 246 txs05:40 UTC — 161 txs05:50 UTC — 18 txs06:00 UTC — 243 txs06:10 UTC — 149 txs06:20 UTC — 0 txs06:30 UTC — 269 txs06:40 UTC — 165 txs06:50 UTC — 0 txs07:00 UTC — 362 txs07:10 UTC — 182 txs07:20 UTC — 0 txs07:30 UTC — 202 txs07:40 UTC — 91 txs07:50 UTC — 0 txs08:00 UTC — 314 txs08:10 UTC — 426 txs08:20 UTC — 0 txs08:30 UTC — 304 txs08:40 UTC — 147 txs08:50 UTC — 0 txs09:00 UTC — 607 txs09:10 UTC — 153 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: 190,242 txs Coverage: 144 blocks · 24.3h 08-24 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.
№ 08 On-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.
All transactions, by source
TxBlaster · 85.0%
15.0%
278,151 tx 49,230 tx · all other
Excluding TxBlaster3 · 1,133,943 outputs
Payment 93.4% 1,058,561
P2PKH 1,053,529 · P2PK 5,018 · Multisig 14
Data Publication 1.2% 13,999
OP_RETURN 13,597 · Ordinal envelopes 162 · Spendable metadata 240
Contracts & Tokens 5.41% 61,383
STAS Gen 3: 83 · Custom locking: 61,300 · 9 unique structures

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.

Method · how non-payment outputs are embedded
OP_RETURN 13,597Spendable metadata 240Ordinal envelope 162STAS Gen 3 83Custom locking 61,300
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:

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. 9 unique structures observed today across 61,383 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 3,558Metanet4 3,174AIP 2,595B:// 2,0151Sat-Ordinal 162BSV-21 70STAS 34OPUB 17
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 1,439text/plain 278image/webp 166image/jpeg 71application/bsv-20 70image/gif 66application/json 65image/png 11
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

143 SHIP endpoints · 136 SLAP endpoints

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

SHIP · intake side
143endpoints
across 86 topics
SLAP · query side
136endpoints
across 80 topics
Top topic managers · SHIP (of 86)
tm_template 18tm_plite 15tm_uhrp 12tm_identity 10tm_users 10
Top lookup services · SLAP (of 80)
ls_template 17ls_uhrp 11ls_identity 10ls_plite 10ls_users 9
Directory topics tm_ship (27) · tm_slap (27) · ls_ship (25) · ls_slap (25)
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 2026-08-25 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.

№ 11 Identifiable 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.

Twetch 2,079TreeChat 1,214dxs 1,169OYO 526mintBlue 277Indelible 1933D Ordi 88AIRCHIVE 61MNEE 31BSV Live Master 22memo.cash 18ButterCup 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

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.

TX c9c8be235b… Block 963,686 2,109 script bytes
Opcodes used
DROPCHECKSIG
Script preview
a362707584a2616e6a616e63686f72547970656176636c6569a2616e68616e63686f7249646176743235343930304e59313439534e48465136373733a2616e677061796c6f61646176a46673746174757366414354495645696c6567616c4e616d65782c466964656c6974792046726565646f6d20487962726964203230323020436f6d6d696e676c656420506f6f6c6c6a75726973
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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