UniScan - Bitcoin Network Report What Happened On Bitcoin in 2025 - Total transactions: 153671654 - Active addresses: 125390111 - Average block capacity utilization: 92.39% - Peak daily transactions: 647748 transactions (2025-05-19） 2025 was a year of change and continued innovation on Bitcoin. Through UniScan, the explorer that supports all your Bitcoin needs, we observed how transactions, assets, and users interacted with the network. A thread 🧵 1/5

Throughout the year, on-chain activity remained relatively steady with occasional spikes driven by various protocols (data and charts from UniScan) : 🔸 Ordinals & Runes remained the dominant drivers of on-chain asset activity - Ordinals activity transactions: 5570361 (peak: 114689 on 2025-07-27) - Runes activity transactions: 36902997 🔸 Emerging protocols - Alkanes activity transactions: 22904958 2/5

Network Fees & Efficiency As on-chain activity evolved, network fees fluctuated accordingly: 🔸 Average network fee: 2.1197 sat/vB 🔸 Peak network fee: 6.9254 sat/vB on 2025-02-24 🔸 Sub-1 sat/vB mode adoption: Total transactions: 26554162 (17.28% of all Bitcoin transactions) Active address: 821519 (0.65% of total Bitcoin wallets) Fee dynamics became an increasingly important factor in how users interacted with the network. In 2025, UniScan supported Sub-1 sat/vB transactions, giving users more flexibility to transact during low-fee windows and manage on-chain costs more efficiently. 3/5

We also added more advanced features in 2025 to offer more insights into how the network and users is behaving, such as: - Asset heat map by block - 24H network and protocol data - Hourly and daily block capacity utilisation - Mining and Hashrate Analytics 4/5

UniScan in 2026 Looking ahead to 2026, UniScan will further strengthen its on-chain data analysis, focusing on delivering more useful and informative insights. This includes: - Address labeling and on-chain detection, helping users better understand address-level behavior and complex asset interactions - Richer data interpretation, turning raw on-chain data into more actionable and readable information - More intuitive UI and richer ticker-level details, improving readability of transaction data and on-chain activity 5/5