❯Markets

Usage Pulse

The chain has no addresses to geolocate — that is the point of Zcash. But every block carries a UTC timestamp, so the daily and weekly rhythm of transactions is public. Line that rhythm up with where the sun is and where the on-ramps are, and a picture of who is transacting when emerges without anyone being identified.

Period2025-09-12 → 2026-09-12 · 419,653 blocks · 1,484,473 tx

▍Busiest hour

17:00 UTC

most transactions land here

▍Quietest hour

03:00 UTC

the nightly trough

▍Peak ÷ trough

3.45×

how uneven the day is

▍Correlation with awake-with-access

0.21

vs 0.04 for everyone awake

▍Transactions by hour of day (UTC)

▍By weekday and hour

▍Where the sun is when the chain is busy

15:00 UTC

activity 94% of peaksun overhead near 45° Win daylight: Americas West · Americas East · Atlantic · Europe & Africa · Middle Eastbright = daylight, dim = night · colour = regulated access

▍Usage versus who is awake

r = 0.21

Population-weighted by each country's time-zone centre. At its busiest hour, up to 98% of the world is awake somewhere with open ZEC access. Transactions track that curve more closely than raw wakefulness — consistent with use concentrated where on-ramps exist.

▍Busiest hour, week by week

Each dot is one week's busiest UTC hour; the line is the transaction-weighted trailing mean. Seasonal drift of about an hour follows daylight-saving changes in the large western markets.

What this can and cannot say

Timing tells you when, never where. The map shows daylight and regulated access by country; it does not place any transaction anywhere. Correlations with wakefulness are consistent with, not proof of, a user base concentrated in open-access regions. Country grades come from the Access Map; JSON at GET /api/v1/pulse?period=1y.