Funds Tracking
As a crypto tracking and investigation platform, fund tracking is undoubtedly a crucial feature. To accommodate various analysis scenarios, MetaSleuth offers multiple fund flow analysis functionalities.
Analyze (Intelligent Analysis)
The default analysis feature of MetaSleuth. In addition to retrieving basic asset transfer data, Analyze incorporates intelligent techniques to facilitate the user's analysis process. Therefore, we also refer to it as "Intelligent Analysis."
You can access the Analyze feature in two main ways: through the search box on the homepage or by selecting an address node on the canvas.
Analyzing a Transaction
When analyzing a transaction, MetaSleuth displays all the asset transfers that occur within the transaction on the canvas.
The currently supported chains for transaction analysis include Bitcoin, Ethereum, BSC, , Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, Base, Fantom, and Linea.
Analyzing an Address
Analyzing addresses involves a more complex algorithm. When analyzing an address, MetaSleuth applies intelligent search and filtering techniques to enhance the efficiency of data retrieval and presentation.
🙋♂️ What data does Analyze retrieve for an address?
Recent asset transfers: Analyze retrieves information about the most recent asset transfers associated with the address (small amounts will be filtered out). If a transfer is identified as a cross-chain transfer, you can utilize the "InterChain Tracker" to locate the bridged assets. For more details, please refer to the InterChain Tracker section.
Critical paths: Analyze also provides information about reachable paths within two hops between the address and centralized exchanges or mixers. Currently, this feature is only supported for Ethereum.
For addresses with high transaction volumes, you may encounter the ⚠️ prompt on the address node, indicating that MetaSleuth has not retrieved all transfer data. In such cases, you can consider the following options if you want more data:
Utilize Advanced Analyze to retrieve additional data.
Import data through Batch import to ensure comprehensive analysis.
🙋♀️ What data does Analyze prioritize displaying?
Not all retrieved data is displayed on the canvas. There are certain data types that we prioritize for display:
Interactions with high-risk addresses.
Interactions with centralized exchanges, mixers, and cross-chain bridges.
The earliest and latest interactions.
Interactions with known entities.
Contract creation relationships.
How to display the unshown interactions?
To view the unshown interactions, navigate to the address panel where you can find all the interactions listed. Additionally, there are several handy tools available to filter the interactions based on criteria such as direction, token, datetime, and more.
Advanced Analyze
As the name suggests, Advanced Analyze is an enhanced version of the Analyze feature. With Advanced Analyze, you have the ability to specify the exact direction, token, and date range for your analysis. By utilizing this feature, you can retrieve the desired interaction data exactly as you expect it to be.
Expand In and Out
Looking for specific direction tracking? Use Expand, the single-direction version of Analyze.
Load More Data
The Load More feature provides you with complete control over selecting the data to display on the canvas. It retrieves asset transfers for a target address but does not automatically paint them. You can carefully select the ones you want to show by examining the name tag, risk information, interaction direction, and other details in the Address Panel.
Add Addresses/Transactions
Investigations can be complex and have multiple entry points. For example, if you want to investigate a case involving four separate addresses, you can add them to the canvas using this feature.
When you add addresses, they will be placed on the canvas without any immediate analysis, allowing you to perform analyze, expand, or load more operations later. On the other hand, when you add transactions, MetaSleuth will retrieve the inner asset transfers of those transactions and display them all on the canvas.
InterChain Tracker
To facilitate the process of tracking funds for users, MetaSleuth has a built-in InterChain Tracker. The InterChain Tracker automatically identifies potential cross-chain asset transfers when users analyze addresses. It also provides a one-click tracking feature to trace the cross-chain asset transfers on the other side. For more information on how to use it, you can visit the InterChain Tracker Panel.
Currently, MS supports automatic parsing of cross-chain bridges such as Across, Multichain, cBridge, Hop, PolyNetwork, Stargate, Synapse, WormHole, Optimism Gateway, Polygon Pos Bridge, Avalanche Bridge (partial support), and RenBridge (partial support).
For further information on bridges and cross-chain transfers, please visit https://ethereum.org/en/bridges/.
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