whale-watch

What This Skill Does

Whale Watch is an essential monitoring tool for OpenClaw users designed to track high-value, "whale"-sized crypto transactions across three major blockchain ecosystems: Hedera, Ethereum, and Solana. By interfacing directly with public APIs and Mirror Nodes, this skill allows users to maintain situational awareness of large capital movements without needing to manually monitor explorers. It detects anomalous volume, tracks specific known whale wallets, and provides a structured way to ingest transaction data into your automated workflows.

Installation

To integrate Whale Watch into your environment, use the OpenClaw hub command via your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/imaflytok/whale-watch

Ensure that you have jq installed on your system, as the skill heavily relies on it for parsing the raw JSON responses from blockchain RPCs into actionable insights.

Use Cases

• Institutional Monitoring: Automatically track inflows and outflows of large wallets to gauge market sentiment.
• Risk Management: Get alerted when unusual volume occurs on your watched assets, helping to predict potential price volatility.
• Treasury Management: Monitor your own large treasury transfers to verify consensus and finality on the ledger.
• Automated Research: Build custom heartbeat scripts to log every transaction above a specific threshold to a database for long-term analysis.

Example Prompts

1. "Whale Watch, show me the top 10 transactions exceeding 50,000 HBAR on Hedera from the last hour."
2. "Monitor wallet 0xabc123... for any incoming transfers greater than 10 ETH and alert me immediately if detected."
3. "Summarize the recent large Solana transaction signatures for the monitored address and format the results by slot number."

Tips & Limitations

• Hedera Performance: The Hedera Mirror Node is highly efficient and rate-limit generous, making it the most reliable endpoint for free monitoring.
• Etherscan Requirements: When monitoring Ethereum, you must provide your own free Etherscan API key; otherwise, you will encounter rate limiting that breaks the skill.
• Solana Latency: Public Solana RPC nodes can occasionally experience high latency. For mission-critical production environments, it is recommended to replace the default URL with a private, high-throughput RPC provider.
• Data Integrity: Always remember that blockchain data is public, but interpretation is subjective. Ensure you verify transaction status on multiple explorers during high-volatility events to avoid false positives.