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10 Useful Tips for Etherscan: Tracking whale wallets, filtering transaction records, analyzing token holdings data

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10 Useful Tips for Etherscan: Tracking whale wallets, filtering transaction records, analyzing token holdings data

The crypto community Croissant has compiled ten practical tips for using the Ethereum blockchain explorer Etherscan, which has received positive feedback on Twitter. Below is the compilation, please refer to the original text for any uncertainties.

Original link: https://twitter.com/CroissantEth/status/1512929465076264971

Etherscan is the top real-time query tool, and it will be your best friend. However, few people have the patience to understand the technical details of blockchain explorers. When used correctly, even the most basic Etherscan applications can give you an advantage over others.

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1. Tracking Popular Wallets

One of the most significant uses of Etherscan is to track popular wallets in the ecosystem. You can view the time and reasons for interactions between parties on the chain.

Tracking some big players is not enough; what you really want is a trader that never makes mistakes.

2. Fund Tracing

Retracing queries help identify the source of smart contract interactions, leaving behind clues on the chain in most cases.

You can trace from one address to another that provides funds to confirm the legitimacy of the fund source.

0xsifu Incident

3. Filtering Transaction Records

Etherscan can filter historical transaction records based on the address you provide, including:

4. Explore Wallet Addresses

Several parts of the wallet address homepage require analysis:

  1. Transactions: Historical transactions, transaction category Method
  2. Internal transactions: Contract interactions
  3. ERC-20 token transactions
  4. ERC-721 token transactions
  5. Analytics: Wallet activity analysis
  6. Comments: Chat function

5. Reading Contracts

If it's a verified smart contract, you can view its code and related information.

Here, I queried the metadata of a certain NFT through TokenID here.

Then I further found the owner of that NFT number.

6. Smart Contract Search

Etherscan is the ultimate search engine for smart contracts. When digging for Alpha information, it's my first tool.

Has a token been deployed? What does the contract contain?

7. Etherscan Code Verifier

The next time you browse any smart contract code on Etherscan, try changing ".io" to ".deth.net" to access the complete code deployment directory as shown in the image below.

8. Decode Input Data

Did you know you can leave a message on the Ethereum blockchain? Visit some transactions with comments and click to display in "UTF-8" format under "Input Data."

This will convert hexadecimal data in the transaction into readable information.

9. Publish Transactions

Uniswap has a bug? Front-end interface not updating? Need a faster way to transact?

Etherscan provides a simple interface to connect any wallet and interact with different smart contracts.

Visit the page, write the contract, and view the options you need.

10. Token Data

All data for specific tokens is here. This page helps understand the largest holders of the token, overall distribution of holdings, and other in-depth data. In the following image, we can see that 1.13 million people hold Shiba Inu coin SHIB.

I may have missed many practical tips, but this knowledge has never let me down. Etherscan is undoubtedly one of the most profound tools on Ethereum; make good use of it!