Bitcoin

Bitcoin processed 8.81 transactions per second over a 8122-second sample taken October 13, 2026, with an average block time of 580s. DefiLlama reported $4.5B of total value locked on the chain that day. Users paid $257,418 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 October 13, 2026. Throughput from Bitcoin's public node; TVL and fees from DefiLlama.
Measured TPS8.81
Sample window8,122 seconds
Transactions in sample71,542
Average block time580s
Total value locked$4.5B
Fees, last 24 hours$257,418

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.
23.85.15Sep 14Oct 13Sep 14: 14.1 TPSSep 15: 6.89 TPSSep 16: 11.3 TPSSep 17: 6.07 TPSSep 18: 20.5 TPSSep 19: 8.84 TPSSep 20: 10.0 TPSSep 21: 18.8 TPSSep 22: 10.6 TPSSep 23: 5.15 TPSSep 24: 9.65 TPSSep 25: 10.3 TPSSep 26: 9.44 TPSSep 27: 23.8 TPSSep 28: 14.7 TPSSep 29: 12.3 TPSSep 30: 8.74 TPSOct 1: 7.90 TPSOct 2: 12.1 TPSOct 3: 8.62 TPSOct 4: 6.25 TPSOct 5: 10.3 TPSOct 6: 8.24 TPSOct 7: 10.6 TPSOct 8: 10.8 TPSOct 9: 8.40 TPSOct 10: 9.00 TPSOct 11: 6.63 TPSOct 12: 9.76 TPSOct 13: 8.81 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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