Whale Tracker

What is whale tracking on Aster Chain?

AsterScan's whale tracker is a live monitor of the largest orders flowing through Aster Chain. Every PlaceOrder action above a configurable notional threshold (default 50K USDT) lands on this page within milliseconds of being sealed in a block. We pull from the same WebSocket stream that the live block feed uses, so there is no third-party indexer between the chain and the table.

How AsterScan defines a whale

There's no protocol-level "whale" flag on Aster Chain. We classify a trade as a whale move based on its notional value (price × quantity in USDT). The default threshold is 50K USDT. We also surface each address's rolling 24h volume, which lets you separate one-shot whales from persistent ones (market makers, treasury rotations, prop desks).

What about private orders?

Roughly 30-50% of Aster Chain traffic uses privacy mode. When privacy is on, the order payload is encrypted on-chain — symbol, side, price, quantity all hidden behind a cipher only the matching engine can open. AsterScan shows that an order was placed and by whom, but not the decoded payload. We never extrapolate: encrypted means we genuinely don't know. See live privacy adoption stats →

Related tools

• Top Positions — live ranking of largest open positions by notional + PnL.
• Privacy Tracker — non-private orders above a configurable size threshold (the orders we CAN decode in full).
• Bot Tracker — addresses with order patterns suggesting automated trading.
• Validator Profiles — operator-level view of who's sealing the blocks these whales land in.