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 · 418,467 blocks · 2.79M txs

Transactions: 2,788,414
Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Quietest hour: 02:00 UTC
Peak / quietest: 1.64×

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 · 482 observed nodes. Sun over the western Atlantic; daylight near Americas, S. America, Europe, Africa. Explore nodes

Daylight correlation

+0.44

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.

Americas40% model · 35% nodes

Europe & Africa40% model · 49% nodes

Asia–Pacific20% model · 16% 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

00h

06h

12h

18h

Mon

Mon 00:00 · 13,418 txs

Mon 01:00 · 12,973 txs

Mon 02:00 · 13,383 txs

Mon 03:00 · 13,504 txs

Mon 04:00 · 14,807 txs

Mon 05:00 · 14,266 txs

Mon 06:00 · 14,210 txs

Mon 07:00 · 13,987 txs

Mon 08:00 · 16,101 txs

Mon 09:00 · 15,049 txs

Mon 10:00 · 16,186 txs

Mon 11:00 · 15,549 txs

Mon 12:00 · 15,281 txs

Mon 13:00 · 17,488 txs

Mon 14:00 · 18,742 txs

Mon 15:00 · 19,537 txs

Mon 16:00 · 18,307 txs

Mon 17:00 · 19,492 txs

Mon 18:00 · 20,310 txs

Mon 19:00 · 19,777 txs

Mon 20:00 · 17,299 txs

Mon 21:00 · 16,499 txs

Mon 22:00 · 14,917 txs

Mon 23:00 · 14,057 txs

Tue

Tue 00:00 · 12,658 txs

Tue 01:00 · 11,901 txs

Tue 02:00 · 11,542 txs

Tue 03:00 · 12,504 txs

Tue 04:00 · 14,105 txs

Tue 05:00 · 13,240 txs

Tue 06:00 · 12,868 txs

Tue 07:00 · 13,285 txs

Tue 08:00 · 13,958 txs

Tue 09:00 · 15,236 txs

Tue 10:00 · 16,621 txs

Tue 11:00 · 15,776 txs

Tue 12:00 · 16,408 txs

Tue 13:00 · 15,533 txs

Tue 14:00 · 15,779 txs

Tue 15:00 · 17,881 txs

Tue 16:00 · 18,025 txs

Tue 17:00 · 18,751 txs

Tue 18:00 · 17,206 txs

Tue 19:00 · 17,372 txs

Tue 20:00 · 16,432 txs

Tue 21:00 · 15,492 txs

Tue 22:00 · 14,837 txs

Tue 23:00 · 14,206 txs

Wed

Wed 00:00 · 12,773 txs

Wed 01:00 · 12,425 txs

Wed 02:00 · 12,072 txs

Wed 03:00 · 13,094 txs

Wed 04:00 · 13,416 txs

Wed 05:00 · 12,915 txs

Wed 06:00 · 12,271 txs

Wed 07:00 · 12,736 txs

Wed 08:00 · 13,164 txs

Wed 09:00 · 14,349 txs

Wed 10:00 · 15,064 txs

Wed 11:00 · 15,035 txs

Wed 12:00 · 14,930 txs

Wed 13:00 · 15,993 txs

Wed 14:00 · 16,625 txs

Wed 15:00 · 17,925 txs

Wed 16:00 · 18,864 txs

Wed 17:00 · 24,625 txs

Wed 18:00 · 22,163 txs

Wed 19:00 · 23,192 txs

Wed 20:00 · 19,773 txs

Wed 21:00 · 18,528 txs

Wed 22:00 · 17,581 txs

Wed 23:00 · 17,098 txs

Thu

Thu 00:00 · 15,145 txs

Thu 01:00 · 13,951 txs

Thu 02:00 · 13,029 txs

Thu 03:00 · 14,198 txs

Thu 04:00 · 14,743 txs

Thu 05:00 · 14,069 txs

Thu 06:00 · 13,582 txs

Thu 07:00 · 13,787 txs

Thu 08:00 · 14,393 txs

Thu 09:00 · 16,538 txs

Thu 10:00 · 17,504 txs

Thu 11:00 · 17,610 txs

Thu 12:00 · 28,928 txs

Thu 13:00 · 21,969 txs

Thu 14:00 · 23,209 txs

Thu 15:00 · 31,528 txs

Thu 16:00 · 36,575 txs

Thu 17:00 · 25,713 txs

Thu 18:00 · 20,238 txs

Thu 19:00 · 18,571 txs

Thu 20:00 · 18,828 txs

Thu 21:00 · 18,314 txs

Thu 22:00 · 16,970 txs

Thu 23:00 · 16,149 txs

Fri

Fri 00:00 · 14,951 txs

Fri 01:00 · 13,716 txs

Fri 02:00 · 13,139 txs

Fri 03:00 · 14,205 txs

Fri 04:00 · 14,418 txs

Fri 05:00 · 13,608 txs

Fri 06:00 · 13,731 txs

Fri 07:00 · 14,226 txs

Fri 08:00 · 15,708 txs

Fri 09:00 · 17,066 txs

Fri 10:00 · 16,205 txs

Fri 11:00 · 15,571 txs

Fri 12:00 · 15,699 txs

Fri 13:00 · 16,228 txs

Fri 14:00 · 17,231 txs

Fri 15:00 · 18,090 txs

Fri 16:00 · 19,913 txs

Fri 17:00 · 19,781 txs

Fri 18:00 · 22,173 txs

Fri 19:00 · 22,597 txs

Fri 20:00 · 21,163 txs

Fri 21:00 · 20,992 txs

Fri 22:00 · 19,975 txs

Fri 23:00 · 17,847 txs

Sat

Sat 00:00 · 17,628 txs

Sat 01:00 · 16,766 txs

Sat 02:00 · 16,144 txs

Sat 03:00 · 17,154 txs

Sat 04:00 · 19,708 txs

Sat 05:00 · 16,605 txs

Sat 06:00 · 15,735 txs

Sat 07:00 · 15,601 txs

Sat 08:00 · 16,082 txs

Sat 09:00 · 18,129 txs

Sat 10:00 · 22,015 txs

Sat 11:00 · 15,800 txs

Sat 12:00 · 17,424 txs

Sat 13:00 · 17,290 txs

Sat 14:00 · 17,858 txs

Sat 15:00 · 18,422 txs

Sat 16:00 · 18,858 txs

Sat 17:00 · 19,463 txs

Sat 18:00 · 21,591 txs

Sat 19:00 · 26,152 txs

Sat 20:00 · 24,432 txs

Sat 21:00 · 17,081 txs

Sat 22:00 · 14,992 txs

Sat 23:00 · 14,374 txs

Sun

Sun 00:00 · 13,005 txs

Sun 01:00 · 11,504 txs

Sun 02:00 · 11,292 txs

Sun 03:00 · 12,242 txs

Sun 04:00 · 12,804 txs

Sun 05:00 · 11,637 txs

Sun 06:00 · 11,323 txs

Sun 07:00 · 11,746 txs

Sun 08:00 · 12,499 txs

Sun 09:00 · 13,116 txs

Sun 10:00 · 13,939 txs

Sun 11:00 · 13,744 txs

Sun 12:00 · 14,164 txs

Sun 13:00 · 17,654 txs

Sun 14:00 · 21,110 txs

Sun 15:00 · 21,405 txs

Sun 16:00 · 17,993 txs

Sun 17:00 · 17,276 txs

Sun 18:00 · 16,673 txs

Sun 19:00 · 19,157 txs

Sun 20:00 · 17,197 txs

Sun 21:00 · 15,403 txs

Sun 22:00 · 15,106 txs

Sun 23:00 · 13,981 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.