How many addresses send or receive each coin on a typical day: the median of October 2026's daily counts. The Bitcoin-family chains are counted by CoinSpectrum from their own blocks; the others show Coin Metrics' community data.
| Chain | Active a day | Counted by |
|---|---|---|
| TRON TRX | 4,203,470 | Coin Metrics |
| Stellar XLM | 984,969 | Coin Metrics |
| Ethereum ETH | 782,317 | Coin Metrics |
| Bitcoin BTC | 623,398 | CoinSpectrum |
| Litecoin LTC | 254,427 | CoinSpectrum |
| XRP XRP | 40,646 | Coin Metrics |
| Algorand ALGO | 38,590 | Coin Metrics |
| Dogecoin DOGE | 33,351 | CoinSpectrum |
| Decred DCR | 32,489 | Coin Metrics |
| Avalanche AVAX | 31,662 | Coin Metrics |
| Dash DASH | 28,092 | CoinSpectrum |
| Bitcoin Cash BCH | 21,791 | CoinSpectrum |
| Cardano ADA | 15,683 | Coin Metrics |
| Zcash ZEC | 6,232 | Coin Metrics |
| Ethereum Classic ETC | 4,159 | Coin Metrics |
| Internet Computer ICP | 3,791 | Coin Metrics |
| DigiByte DGB | 2,951 | CoinSpectrum |
| Flow FLOW | 1,249 | Coin Metrics |
| Vertcoin VTC | 456 | CoinSpectrum |
| NEM XEM | 19 | Coin Metrics |
Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Dash, Bitcoin Cash, DigiByte and Vertcoin are read from the chains themselves. The site connects to each chain's nodes over its peer-to-peer network, takes the block headers from a block before the month, checks that each answer continues the block it asked from, and downloads every block of the month. Each block is read and dropped; only the day's set of addresses is held. An address counts on a day, by the block's time in UTC, when it receives an output or spends one. The receiver is in the output; the sender is read from the spend itself, which carries the public key or the script the address was made from. Two kinds of spend reveal neither, an old pay-to-public-key coin and a Taproot spend; they are left out, so a chain with many Taproot spends, Bitcoin above all, is counted a little low.
Coin Metrics counts the same way, and the two agree: Bitcoin Cash's October 2026 median was 21,790 counted here and 21,970 by Coin Metrics, 0.8% apart; Vertcoin's, 456 and 453.
The other chains, the account chains such as Ethereum, TRON and XRP among them, show Coin Metrics' community data, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0: shown here with credit, and left out of the site's API.
Active addresses are a part of the CoinSpectrum Grade's distribution section, roughly how many people use a coin, on a logarithmic scale from 100 a day (0) to 500,000, about Bitcoin's level (10). The site's own counts, every day of every month, are in the API at /api/v1/active-addresses.json.
An address that sent or received the coin on a given day. The daily count is the number of distinct addresses that did; the figure here is the median of a month of those days, so a burst on one day does not move it.
No. A Bitcoin-style wallet takes a fresh address for its change, an account chain reuses one, and an exchange holds millions of customers behind a few addresses. The count is an order of magnitude of use, not a head count.
Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Dash, Bitcoin Cash, DigiByte and Vertcoin are counted from their own blocks: every block of the month is downloaded from the chain's nodes over its peer-to-peer network, read for who received and who spent coins, and dropped; the distinct addresses of each day are counted. The other chains show Coin Metrics' community data, with credit.
Once a month, in the first days of the next month. The figures shown are October 2026's.