Bitcoin

Bitcoin processed 7.96 transactions per second over a 9338-second sample taken September 5, 2026, with an average block time of 667s. DefiLlama reported $4.3B of total value locked on the chain that day. Users paid $287,513 in network fees over the preceding 24 hours.

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Key Facts

FamilyBitcoin-style
Launched2009
Native assetBitcoin (BTC)
Developer docsdeveloper.bitcoin.org

Measured Performance

Measured September 5, 2026. Throughput from Bitcoin's public node; TVL and fees from DefiLlama.
Measured TPS7.96
Sample window9,338 seconds
Transactions in sample74,291
Average block time667s
Total value locked$4.3B
Fees, last 24 hours$287,513

15 blocks read from the public mempool.space API.

Measured throughput over timeOne sample per daily run, newest on the right. Each point is transactions per second counted from Bitcoin's own public node.
12.55.64Sep 2Sep 5Sep 2: 12.5 TPSSep 2: 12.5 TPSSep 2: 12.2 TPSSep 2: 11.3 TPSSep 2: 5.64 TPSSep 2: 5.64 TPSSep 3: 6.87 TPSSep 4: 7.96 TPSSep 5: 7.96 TPS

Throughput is counted by RampAtlas from recent blocks on Bitcoin's public node over the window shown, not a theoretical maximum. Total value locked and 24-hour fees come from DefiLlama. A page whose newest sample is more than 120 days old is not indexed.

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