Whale Categories

Plankton

An address moving less than 10 BTC — retail and payment tier

Category: Whale Categories Also known as: 3 Related terms: 2

Definition

Transactions below 10 BTC. Pure retail, payments, micro-DeFi activity. Out of scope for whale tracking but the largest population by count. We never index plankton-tier individually but reference the cohort for comparison.

Context anchor

<10 BTC ≈ <$600k; ~95% of all daily Bitcoin TXs are plankton-tier by count

Example

<10 BTC moves — retail, payment, or accumulation activity

Also known as

planktonshrimpsmall-retail