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Edition 210
Tuesday · September 29, 2026
BSV Network · 24 hours ending September 29, 09:19 UTC

Edition 210

Edited by Bridget Doran · Scanned 09:33 UTC, September 29 · Blocks 968,723 → 968,866 · 1,558,038 transactions
Largest move
$640K
31,112 BSV · whale tier
Avg block time
9.8min
near schedule
Throughput
18tx/s
peak 565 tx/s
BSV price
$20.58
24h change unavailable
№ 01 Chain Health

9 pools, on schedule

9 pools produced today's 144 blocks at an average interval of 9.8 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target.

6.1 min
Median interval
half the blocks faster
56
Fast blocks1
under 5 min
338,991 txs
Busiest block
block 968,828
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 · 23.4h
Fast (<5 min) · 56 Normal · 69 Slow (>20 min) · 19
For the technical reader

Block timing. Mean interval 589.9 seconds (9.8 min) over 143 measured intervals across 144 blocks; median 366 seconds (6.1 min). Range 5 s to 4577 s (76.3 min).

Cadence. Average interval 9.8 min — on schedule relative to the 10-minute target. 9 pools produced today's blocks.

Largest block. Block 968,828 at 338,991 transactions, the peak load in the window. Avg tx/block across all 144 blocks was 10,820.

№ 02 Teranode Network

6 Teranode operators visible on the public network

At least 6 operators are announcing on the public gossip network (2 acting as public relays), running versions from v0.15.8-beta-2 to v0.16.0-beta-11. This is the publicly-visible set only; others almost certainly run Teranode without announcing.

6
Visible
announcing on mesh
2
Public relays
accept external tx
5
Caught up → tip
synced to latest block
Versions in use · 6 operators
v0.15.8-beta-2 1 · v0.15.9-beta-2 1 · v0.15.9 3 · 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 968,871). 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 23.6%. Distribution within normal range.

CUVVE 23.6%
Kryptex 20.8%
taal.com 13.2%
SA100 9%
Bitofsin 7.6%
GorillaPool 6.9%
qdlnk 6.9%
Mining-Dutch 6.3%
unknown 3.5%
molepool.com 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: CUVVE 34, Kryptex 30, taal.com 19, SA100 13, Bitofsin 11, GorillaPool 10, qdlnk 10, Mining-Dutch 9, unknown 5, molepool.com 3. 139 of 144 blocks identified.

№ 04 Capital Flow

357 movements crossed the chain

2 of them moved more than 10,000 BSV, a combined ~$863,532 at today's price.

2
Major
> 10K BSV
~$205,800+
51
Notable
1K – 10K BSV
~$20,580 – 205,800
304
Significant
100 – 1K BSV
~$2,058 – 20,580
Top movements
31,111.65BSV
≈ $640,278 fa7156aaf2…
2 → 4 Neutral
10,848.10BSV
≈ $223,254 19b3b9f330…
100 → 1 Consolidation
8,843.19BSV
≈ $181,993 4582c31671…
1 → 2 Neutral
8,720.22BSV
≈ $179,462 bbacc00ec3…
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

69 tracked addresses across 212 days

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

New to the radar
15deHvTjRYHcn4kgdd… 8,843 BSV First appearance
1LnPdfr5Tu2f2HPVto… 8,720 BSV First appearance
1du9DHNpqK6jErVQhj… 8,713 BSV First appearance
Recurring addresses
Address Behavior Confidence Active
9,008,813 BSV · 440 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-04 → 09-29
5,971,089 BSV · 198 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-02 → 09-29
2,821,749 BSV · 139 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-02 → 09-29
18,741,576 BSV · 121 txs
Exchange-Like High 03-08 → 09-28
0 BSV · 119 txs
Accumulator High 03-08 → 09-28
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 212-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
$20.58
24h change unavailable
Throughput, avg
18tx/s
peak 565 tx/s · 10-min window
Avg tx / block10,820
Max tx / block338,991
Total transactions1,558,038
10-min peak338,991
For the technical reader

TPS is computed over the 23.4 hours of the scan window in 10-minute intervals, not per block. The peak is the busiest 10-minute window observed (338,991 transactions, ≈ 565 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

1,558,038 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 — 0 txs09:10 UTC — 0 txs09:20 UTC — 0 txs09:30 UTC — 0 txs09:40 UTC — 0 txs09:50 UTC — 61,606 txs10:00 UTC — 115,458 txs10:10 UTC — 68,008 txs10:20 UTC — 136,230 txs136k10:30 UTC — 42,891 txs10:40 UTC — 79,228 txs10:50 UTC — 1,613 txs11:00 UTC — 776 txs11:10 UTC — 755 txs11:20 UTC — 19 txs11:30 UTC — 0 txs11:40 UTC — 1,376 txs11:50 UTC — 14 txs12:00 UTC — 1,166 txs12:10 UTC — 0 txs12:20 UTC — 1,193 txs12:30 UTC — 0 txs12:40 UTC — 57 txs12:50 UTC — 1,624 txs13:00 UTC — 1,119 txs13:10 UTC — 0 txs13:20 UTC — 4,712 txs13:30 UTC — 0 txs13:40 UTC — 2,429 txs13:50 UTC — 3,118 txs14:00 UTC — 0 txs14:10 UTC — 1,838 txs14:20 UTC — 0 txs14:30 UTC — 0 txs14:40 UTC — 0 txs14:50 UTC — 917 txs15:00 UTC — 0 txs15:10 UTC — 0 txs15:20 UTC — 0 txs15:30 UTC — 0 txs15:40 UTC — 723 txs15:50 UTC — 86 txs16:00 UTC — 534 txs16:10 UTC — 340 txs16:20 UTC — 0 txs16:30 UTC — 296 txs16:40 UTC — 440 txs16:50 UTC — 420 txs17:00 UTC — 0 txs17:10 UTC — 468 txs17:20 UTC — 646 txs17:30 UTC — 31 txs17:40 UTC — 809 txs17:50 UTC — 0 txs18:00 UTC — 802 txs18:10 UTC — 424 txs18:20 UTC — 0 txs18:30 UTC — 0 txs18:40 UTC — 0 txs18:50 UTC — 1,152 txs19:00 UTC — 485 txs19:10 UTC — 21 txs19:20 UTC — 664 txs19:30 UTC — 0 txs19:40 UTC — 353 txs19:50 UTC — 0 txs20:00 UTC — 682 txs20:10 UTC — 317 txs20:20 UTC — 8 txs20:30 UTC — 0 txs20:40 UTC — 505 txs20:50 UTC — 0 txs21:00 UTC — 0 txs21:10 UTC — 485 txs21:20 UTC — 229 txs21:30 UTC — 203 txs21:40 UTC — 376 txs21:50 UTC — 26 txs22:00 UTC — 286 txs22:10 UTC — 112 txs22:20 UTC — 122 txs22:30 UTC — 0 txs22:40 UTC — 447 txs22:50 UTC — 33 txs23:00 UTC — 0 txs23:10 UTC — 42 txs23:20 UTC — 3,115 txs23:30 UTC — 0 txs23:40 UTC — 0 txs23:50 UTC — 217 txs00:00 UTC — 24 txs00:10 UTC — 0 txs00:20 UTC — 1,438 txs00:30 UTC — 17 txs00:40 UTC — 38 txs00:50 UTC — 0 txs01:00 UTC — 0 txs01:10 UTC — 0 txs01:20 UTC — 0 txs01:30 UTC — 2,964 txs01:40 UTC — 10,155 txs01:50 UTC — 116,830 txs02:00 UTC — 25 txs02:10 UTC — 338,991 txs339k02:20 UTC — 0 txs02:30 UTC — 25 txs02:40 UTC — 34,618 txs02:50 UTC — 0 txs03:00 UTC — 0 txs03:10 UTC — 0 txs03:20 UTC — 418 txs03:30 UTC — 12 txs03:40 UTC — 0 txs03:50 UTC — 145,447 txs145k04:00 UTC — 190,422 txs190k04:10 UTC — 52,482 txs04:20 UTC — 112,786 txs04:30 UTC — 0 txs04:40 UTC — 0 txs04:50 UTC — 0 txs05:00 UTC — 0 txs05:10 UTC — 0 txs05:20 UTC — 0 txs05:30 UTC — 0 txs05:40 UTC — 1,906 txs05:50 UTC — 0 txs06:00 UTC — 0 txs06:10 UTC — 1,281 txs06:20 UTC — 104 txs06:30 UTC — 0 txs06:40 UTC — 368 txs06:50 UTC — 0 txs07:00 UTC — 0 txs07:10 UTC — 677 txs07:20 UTC — 26 txs07:30 UTC — 11 txs07:40 UTC — 2,956 txs07:50 UTC — 0 txs08:00 UTC — 0 txs08:10 UTC — 45 txs08:20 UTC — 0 txs08:30 UTC — 916 txs08:40 UTC — 472 txs08:50 UTC — 366 txs09:00 UTC — 147 txs09:10 UTC — 25 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: 338,991 txs Coverage: 144 blocks · 23.4h 09-28 09:53 UTC → 09-29 09:19 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

3.2 million outputs, by purpose

The TxBlaster service produced 96.6% of transactions, posting paired payment and data-publication outputs continuously. The breakdown below isolates the remaining 3.4% 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 · 96.6%
3.4%
1,505,115 tx 52,923 tx · all other
Excluding TxBlaster3 · 197,462 outputs
Payment 73.3% 144,711
P2PKH 129,681 · P2PK 15,019 · Multisig 11
Data Publication 21.8% 42,980
OP_RETURN 41,965 · Ordinal envelopes 855 · Spendable metadata 160
Contracts & Tokens 4.95% 9,771
STAS Gen 3: 383 · Custom locking: 9,388 · 13 unique structures

Of 52,751 non-payment outputs in this window, 79.6% were prunable (OP_RETURN) and 20.4% 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 41,965Spendable metadata 160Ordinal envelope 855STAS Gen 3 383Custom locking 9,388
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. 13 unique structures observed today across 9,771 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 3,669Metanet4 3,115AIP 2,578B:// 2,4661Sat-Ordinal 855BSV-21 127STAS 73BAP-ID 1
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 1,974text/plain 520image/svg+xml 228image/webp 150image/jpeg 133application/bsv-20 127image/png 85application/json 74
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

151 SHIP endpoints · 141 SLAP endpoints

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

SHIP · intake side
151endpoints
across 88 topics
SLAP · query side
141endpoints
across 82 topics
Top topic managers · SHIP (of 88)
tm_template 18tm_plite 15tm_uhrp 12tm_users 11tm_identity 10
Top lookup services · SLAP (of 82)
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 2026-09-29 16:06 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 10,779 transactions. Most chain activity carries no such identifier; the names below are services whose on-chain shape is recognizable from prior analysis.

AIRCHIVE 10,779TreeChat 1,984Twetch 1,336dxs 993OYO 904Indelible 399MNEE 983D Ordi 52mintBlue 51BSV Feed/View 24memo.cash 19BSV Live Master 19Neucron 4ForgeChain 3
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 9,388 candidates

Programmable Contract with a 2,075-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 c4e56e5d5c… Block 968,724 2,075 script bytes
Opcodes used
DROPCHECKSIG
Script preview
a362707584a2616e6a616e63686f72547970656176636c6569a2616e68616e63686f7249646176743235343930305932384e59485531443358333632a2616e677061796c6f61646176a46673746174757366414354495645696c6567616c4e616d65684a383520422e562e6c6a7572697364696374696f6e624e4c70726567697374726174696f6e44617461a36c6c6567616c416464
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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