USAGE_CLOCK

The Rhythm of Zcash

Explore when Zcash transactions happen. Compare the daily activity pattern with daylight and the observed node network.

2025-10-01 → 2026-10-01 · 824,230 blocks · 1.02M txs

Transactions: 1,017,037
Busiest hour: 23:00 UTC
Quietest hour: 00:00 UTC
Peak / quietest: 1.47×

Daily activity

Selected hour · UTC

TransactionsNodes in daylight

Bar length shows transaction volume relative to the busiest hour. The inner ring gets stronger as more nodes enter daylight.

Sun & network · 15:00 UTC · paused

node, lit node, dark

Daylight simulation for today at the selected hour · 182 observed nodes. Sun over the western Atlantic; daylight near Americas, S. America, Europe, Africa. Explore nodes

Daylight correlation

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Pearson correlation between hourly transactions and the share of observed nodes in daylight. Ranges from −1 to +1; it does not establish a cause or a user location.

Timing & node geography

Compare a modeled timing mix with observed node locations. Timing weights describe how well three daily profiles fit the activity curve; they do not locate users.

Americas42% model · 51% nodes

Europe & Africa22% model · 38% nodes

Asia–Pacific36% model · 11% nodes

Thick bars: fitted timing weights. Thin bars: observed node shares. Node locations can reflect hosting or VPN endpoints, rather than where people live.

Activity vs. baseline

above baseline below baseline

Observed share of transactions minus a daily routine model weighted by node locations, in percentage points. A difference is not evidence of bots or automated activity.

Seven days, twenty-four hours

Low → high · UTC

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06h

12h

18h

Mon

Mon 00:00 · 5,294 txs

Mon 01:00 · 5,344 txs

Mon 02:00 · 5,825 txs

Mon 03:00 · 5,503 txs

Mon 04:00 · 5,619 txs

Mon 05:00 · 5,943 txs

Mon 06:00 · 5,027 txs

Mon 07:00 · 6,455 txs

Mon 08:00 · 5,918 txs

Mon 09:00 · 6,278 txs

Mon 10:00 · 6,172 txs

Mon 11:00 · 6,330 txs

Mon 12:00 · 6,390 txs

Mon 13:00 · 5,807 txs

Mon 14:00 · 6,756 txs

Mon 15:00 · 5,847 txs

Mon 16:00 · 6,332 txs

Mon 17:00 · 6,148 txs

Mon 18:00 · 6,154 txs

Mon 19:00 · 5,863 txs

Mon 20:00 · 7,315 txs

Mon 21:00 · 5,352 txs

Mon 22:00 · 5,862 txs

Mon 23:00 · 5,968 txs

Tue

Tue 00:00 · 5,406 txs

Tue 01:00 · 5,794 txs

Tue 02:00 · 5,717 txs

Tue 03:00 · 6,857 txs

Tue 04:00 · 5,219 txs

Tue 05:00 · 6,066 txs

Tue 06:00 · 6,340 txs

Tue 07:00 · 4,931 txs

Tue 08:00 · 6,684 txs

Tue 09:00 · 5,668 txs

Tue 10:00 · 6,500 txs

Tue 11:00 · 6,548 txs

Tue 12:00 · 7,489 txs

Tue 13:00 · 6,134 txs

Tue 14:00 · 6,042 txs

Tue 15:00 · 6,587 txs

Tue 16:00 · 6,098 txs

Tue 17:00 · 5,848 txs

Tue 18:00 · 6,088 txs

Tue 19:00 · 5,620 txs

Tue 20:00 · 6,329 txs

Tue 21:00 · 5,383 txs

Tue 22:00 · 6,380 txs

Tue 23:00 · 5,535 txs

Wed

Wed 00:00 · 5,474 txs

Wed 01:00 · 5,712 txs

Wed 02:00 · 6,220 txs

Wed 03:00 · 7,172 txs

Wed 04:00 · 5,852 txs

Wed 05:00 · 6,280 txs

Wed 06:00 · 5,425 txs

Wed 07:00 · 5,164 txs

Wed 08:00 · 6,795 txs

Wed 09:00 · 5,872 txs

Wed 10:00 · 6,093 txs

Wed 11:00 · 6,065 txs

Wed 12:00 · 6,173 txs

Wed 13:00 · 5,790 txs

Wed 14:00 · 5,799 txs

Wed 15:00 · 5,446 txs

Wed 16:00 · 6,177 txs

Wed 17:00 · 5,256 txs

Wed 18:00 · 6,307 txs

Wed 19:00 · 7,245 txs

Wed 20:00 · 5,513 txs

Wed 21:00 · 5,999 txs

Wed 22:00 · 5,851 txs

Wed 23:00 · 5,752 txs

Thu

Thu 00:00 · 5,462 txs

Thu 01:00 · 5,653 txs

Thu 02:00 · 5,395 txs

Thu 03:00 · 6,043 txs

Thu 04:00 · 11,103 txs

Thu 05:00 · 9,860 txs

Thu 06:00 · 7,237 txs

Thu 07:00 · 6,891 txs

Thu 08:00 · 6,043 txs

Thu 09:00 · 6,215 txs

Thu 10:00 · 7,403 txs

Thu 11:00 · 7,476 txs

Thu 12:00 · 6,327 txs

Thu 13:00 · 5,839 txs

Thu 14:00 · 5,828 txs

Thu 15:00 · 6,948 txs

Thu 16:00 · 5,854 txs

Thu 17:00 · 5,655 txs

Thu 18:00 · 8,819 txs

Thu 19:00 · 10,181 txs

Thu 20:00 · 13,373 txs

Thu 21:00 · 15,256 txs

Thu 22:00 · 13,247 txs

Thu 23:00 · 20,125 txs

Fri

Fri 00:00 · 5,101 txs

Fri 01:00 · 5,511 txs

Fri 02:00 · 5,441 txs

Fri 03:00 · 5,943 txs

Fri 04:00 · 5,486 txs

Fri 05:00 · 5,608 txs

Fri 06:00 · 5,337 txs

Fri 07:00 · 6,095 txs

Fri 08:00 · 5,573 txs

Fri 09:00 · 5,678 txs

Fri 10:00 · 5,175 txs

Fri 11:00 · 5,433 txs

Fri 12:00 · 4,871 txs

Fri 13:00 · 6,423 txs

Fri 14:00 · 5,506 txs

Fri 15:00 · 5,547 txs

Fri 16:00 · 5,934 txs

Fri 17:00 · 6,589 txs

Fri 18:00 · 4,976 txs

Fri 19:00 · 4,767 txs

Fri 20:00 · 5,239 txs

Fri 21:00 · 4,991 txs

Fri 22:00 · 4,974 txs

Fri 23:00 · 5,414 txs

Sat

Sat 00:00 · 4,718 txs

Sat 01:00 · 5,214 txs

Sat 02:00 · 5,228 txs

Sat 03:00 · 4,662 txs

Sat 04:00 · 5,309 txs

Sat 05:00 · 5,033 txs

Sat 06:00 · 5,104 txs

Sat 07:00 · 5,232 txs

Sat 08:00 · 4,878 txs

Sat 09:00 · 4,940 txs

Sat 10:00 · 5,169 txs

Sat 11:00 · 4,778 txs

Sat 12:00 · 5,283 txs

Sat 13:00 · 4,702 txs

Sat 14:00 · 4,791 txs

Sat 15:00 · 6,014 txs

Sat 16:00 · 5,260 txs

Sat 17:00 · 5,634 txs

Sat 18:00 · 5,513 txs

Sat 19:00 · 5,378 txs

Sat 20:00 · 4,809 txs

Sat 21:00 · 5,148 txs

Sat 22:00 · 5,054 txs

Sat 23:00 · 5,313 txs

Sun

Sun 00:00 · 5,021 txs

Sun 01:00 · 4,632 txs

Sun 02:00 · 5,420 txs

Sun 03:00 · 4,776 txs

Sun 04:00 · 5,803 txs

Sun 05:00 · 5,058 txs

Sun 06:00 · 5,592 txs

Sun 07:00 · 5,741 txs

Sun 08:00 · 4,872 txs

Sun 09:00 · 5,355 txs

Sun 10:00 · 5,029 txs

Sun 11:00 · 5,537 txs

Sun 12:00 · 5,972 txs

Sun 13:00 · 5,040 txs

Sun 14:00 · 5,767 txs

Sun 15:00 · 6,076 txs

Sun 16:00 · 5,233 txs

Sun 17:00 · 5,392 txs

Sun 18:00 · 4,527 txs

Sun 19:00 · 5,532 txs

Sun 20:00 · 5,333 txs

Sun 21:00 · 5,228 txs

Sun 22:00 · 5,399 txs

Sun 23:00 · 5,496 txs

How to read these charts

Activity is grouped by UTC block timestamp across the selected period. Heatmap cells are total transactions for each weekday/hour combination, not daily averages. The dial uses a zero baseline and compares each hour with the busiest hour.

The daylight layer uses today’s solar declination at the selected UTC hour. It is a simulation, not a live transaction stream or a reconstruction of historical sunlight. Node observations describe the current available network snapshot.

The timing model fits three fixed routine profiles at UTC−6, UTC+1 and UTC+8 in 2% weight steps. The baseline weights the same routine by node counts, with offsets approximated from longitude. Neither model measures people’s locations; no adjustment is made for daylight saving or regional behavior.

Block timestamps describe when transactions were recorded. Node geography, timing weights and baseline differences cannot identify users or distinguish human activity from automation. Explore privacy metrics.