Whale alerts
People moving $25 million or more on every network, with exchanges, protocols, market makers and bots filtered out — the biggest moves, money into and out of exchanges, every whale's wallet, and a one-click way to follow any of them.
Whale alerts shows the people moving very large amounts of crypto: $25 million or more, on the main networks, over the last 24 hours or the last 7 days.
Every transfer on a blockchain is public, but most of the big ones are exchanges shuffling their own funds, bridges, protocols and trading bots. None of that says anything about what investors are doing. This view removes it and leaves only individuals and their own vaults — the moves that can tell you something.
Who counts as a whale
A person, or their own multisig vault (a Safe), that moves $25 million or more — either in a single transfer, or added up over the week. Three moves of $10 million by the same wallet count as $30 million, because large holders often split their moves on purpose.
Left out: exchanges, bridges, protocols, market makers and bots. Their flows are business operations, not decisions by holders.
Period
24H or 7D, at the top right. Everything on the page follows the period you choose.
The page updates on its own, so you can leave it open.
The five figures at the top
| Figure | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Whale moves | How many single transfers of $25M or more there were, and their total |
| Whales active | How many whales moved $25M or more in the period |
| Biggest move | The largest single transfer, with the coin and the network |
| Into exchanges | How much whales sent to exchanges. Usually a sign they are getting ready to sell |
| Out of exchanges | How much whales took out of exchanges into their own wallets. Usually a sign they bought, or are moving to long-term storage |
Into exchanges and Out of exchanges are the pair to watch. When far more is going in than coming out, large holders are positioning to sell. When more is coming out, they are accumulating. The larger of the two is highlighted.
If there is anything to know about the data — a network that could not be fully read, or wallets still being identified — a notes about this data button appears under the figures. Click it to read them.
Networks
The buttons under the figures filter the page by network: All networks, or one at a time — Ethereum, Bitcoin, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon and Gnosis.
What is followed on each:
- Ethereum and Bitcoin — every transfer
- BNB Chain and Avalanche — every transfer of the main coins: stablecoins, wrapped bitcoin and wrapped ether
- Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon and Gnosis — the largest holders that are not exchanges, and everything they move
Biggest moves
The largest transfers of the period, biggest first. Each line shows:
- The direction — ↓ coins taken out of an exchange or a protocol, ↑ coins sent to an exchange or into a protocol, ↔ from one wallet to another
- The value in dollars and the amount of the coin
- The network
- What happened — Sent to an exchange, Took out of an exchange, Wallet to wallet, Into a protocol, Out of a protocol, Sent or Received
- Who sent it and who received it, by name when the wallet is known, with a tag for its type: Exchange, Protocol, Market maker, Bot or Safe
- How long ago
Click a line to open the transaction on the blockchain. Click a whale's name or address to open its card.
Whales by wallet
The same period grouped by whale: everything each one sent and received.
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Wallet | Its name if known, or its address, and its network |
| Sent | Total sent in the period |
| Received | Total received |
| Net | Received minus sent. Green means the whale is gathering coins; red means it is sending them away |
| Last | When it last moved |
A whale that appears again and again tells you more than one big transfer. Click any row to open its card.
A whale's card
Clicking a whale opens its card:
- Its name or address, network and type
- Sent · 7 days and Received · 7 days
- Moves of $1M+ — how many movements of a million dollars or more it made this week
- Moves this week — each one, with who it went to or came from, the amount and when. Click one to open it on the blockchain
- Explorer — opens the wallet on the network's block explorer
- Watch this wallet — adds it to your watchlist in one click
Once a whale is in your watchlist you can follow it like any of your own wallets: what it holds in the Overview, what it buys and sells in Activity and Transactions, and how it behaves in the Wallet Analyser.
How to use it
- Read the exchange flows first. Heavy flows into exchanges ahead of a fall, or heavy flows out during a dip, are the clearest signals on the page.
- Look for repetition. The same whale moving several times in a week is a pattern; a single transfer can be a one-off custody change.
- Follow the ones that matter to you. If a whale holds the coins you hold, add it to your watchlist and watch what it does next.
- Check before reacting. Coins sent to an exchange make a sale possible; they do not prove it happened. Whales are wrong too, and you do not know their reasons or timing.
Related
The latest five moves also appear in the Whale moves panel of Market, and the count for the last 24 hours in the Whale alerts card of the Overview.