TUF transaction analytics: make your own edge.

Gain an edge, with onchain analysis, using tools like TUFEXT

This is an edited article from a Medium article called ‘Level up your Crypto trading results’, by WinkandSmile, edited and published with his permission. Please read WinkandSmile’s article for a beginner-friendly review of the low-cap launch token landscape and getting started in the world of Low-cap Crypto tokens.

How to get in early on tokens

What if you could access those tokens that moon on Centralized Exchanges early? What if you could get in at launch, quickly after, when it was up 10x, or had a market cap of 10k, or 50k, or 100k?

The good news! Hundreds of new tokens are launched every day, a subset of which will do well, others will do very well and once in a while, there will be a unicorn.

The bad news! Most new tokens are bad. A huge percentage solely exists as a scam — and scammers run the same scams time and again, launching new tokens day after day, making a bit, or a lot, of profit for themselves off each one.

Some token launches are legitimate, and gather momentum and pop for a bit then die, and others again don’t get much momentum at all, just plain die straight after launch.

To succeed in this market you have to develop market intelligence to analyze, assess and sort the new projects, put the odds of selecting the tokens with the best chance of success, in your hands, for you to profit from sustained gains, then exit, and repeat.

This is the opportunity that is in your hands, to develop that edge.

So how do you get started?

You start by following others. And no, that doesn’t mean following influencers!

New Token Market: Research Overview

• Find coins early before they pump 100x
• Find and track crypto insider wallets, unique to you, not some influencer.
• Get in the coins at the same time as Insiders
• Do your own research to find out if a coin is safe to buy

First, let’s get this straight, 95% of meme coins launch and then crash like this:

So how do you find a coin that looks like this?

You need information asymmetry. Which means you need the information most people don’t have.

If you blindly buy coins, you will most likely lose all your money.

If you buy what influencers promote, you don’t have an edge because you’re following a crowded trade.

The first step to becoming successful in crypto is to stop relying on signals from influencers.

They’re incentivized to promote projects and sell to their audience.

• You aren’t getting in at launch, missing huge upside potential
• They get their coins cheaper, so you’re buying their bags for a premium
• They don’t tell you when they sell, leaving you to hold the bag.

The token game is played by insider circles with teams of developers, promoters, and market makers. You need to develop your own market intelligence. The first step to do that is to follow insiders and trade like an Insider.

So you need to follow the Insiders. How do we find them?

TUF Tier 2 for Wallet Analysis and Tools

The best thing about Crypto is that all on-chain activity is public. It’s a resource that anybody in the world can access, read, analyze and make decisions — hopefully profitable decisions, from your conclusions.

You have the ability to develop your own alpha, for free, if you’re willing to put in the work.

The first step is to learn how to navigate Etherscan like the back of your hand, work with free tools like DeBank, Zerion, or utilize paid tools, or token-gated tools like TUF to get a) better data analytics b) faster real-time data and analysis.

TUF provides its analysis tools at TUFEXT.com providing tiered access to data analysis tools.

The data TUF generates can be sourced and generated manually with legwork, time, and mathematical calculations. TUFEXT simply accelerates and drastically simplifies this process, doing in seconds what might be a few hours work.

TUFExt Historical Contract and Wallet Analysis tools require Tier 2 (1.5M tokens). and real-time view into the Mempool — on-chain instructions (like a/b token-swap, with x gas price and z max gas limit) that have been submitted to validators but not executed.

Tier 2 access costs 1,500,000 tokens (+5% buy tax) so circa $1,575 at today’s TUF token price circa $1M mcap. There is no cost for ongoing use of TUFEXT site utility, and you can sell your TUF tokens at a profit or loss, at any time.

TUF: (free tier + token gated utility): https://tufext.com/

This is an article about using TUFEXT for rapid contract and insider wallet discovery.

Onchain Analysis and Tools

Manual Research

First, let's look at the method for starting research Manually, without TUFEXT — which is what I used to do.

Let's find a token that has done very well. Maybe one we like the narrative of. We can look at Dexscreener and sort by market cap or transaction volume as a beginning point.

Let's take Shibareum Pad which launched Feb 28th on Ethereum at the contract address: 0xC90906d45046059221e908de5Cc8fcfaCA859235

https://dexscreener.com/ethereum/0xddc17b3c8cca8ac990df77beecca02c7c3f85558

Shibareum Pad or $SHIBP, the coin above, launched recently and made great % gains.

• These 100x tokens aren’t on Coingecko yet, so you need to use Dexscreener or Dextools.
• To find this particular token. Type SHIBP into the search bar.
• Often there are tokens with similar names, so check Liquidity, Volume and Age of the token to make sure its the right one.
• Click on the top coin and at the bottom right of the page you will find the Contract Address: 0xC90906d45046059221e908de5Cc8fcfaCA859235
• Go to Etherscan.io and paste the Contract Address into the Search box.
• To find the insiders, you want to first start looking at the Early Buyers.
• On the right side, click the Token Tracker: Shibarium Pad (SHIBP)

• On the Transfer Tab click on the Last Page

• Go through the transactions and look for Early Buyers that sold for a decent profit or are still holding if the coin is still pumping.
• I recommend you download the CSV Export file use Google Sheets or Excel to track your data matching wallet buys and sells, then enter the buying contract address into a tool like Debank or Zerion to help discover trading history.
• Avoid trading bots. Sometimes they’re tagged MEVBOT, but another sign is if they have 1000s of transactions or sell immediately — often with same buy and sell timestamp.

When you find an Early Buyer, you need to check if:

• They’re profitable traders
• They didn’t just get lucky on 1 trade
• They’re selective about what they buy

This is a whole lot of work!

Using TUFEXT: Tier 2 is a whole lot easier

After Identifying SHIBP as a Contract you’d want to investigate, you copy and paste the Contract Address into TUFEXT Analyser. and click Search.

Displayed is Contract Transaction data:
List of Wallets by Profitability: which you can deep dive into
List of Fastest Wallets: which you can deep dive into.
A graphical display of buy and sell activity by Block:
Number of Holders:
Total Market Cap:
Number of Buy transactions: and Sell transactions: to indicate activity

Wallet List, by Most Profitable

Clicking into the List of most profitable wallets you can quickly see that currently the best-performing wallet that traded SHIBP — that has closed for profit (others could still be holding, looking for an even higher exit multiple) bought — 0.1Eth position (around $163) and exited for 15,204% gain.

I can click through as many wallets, sorted by profitability on this token, as I want, to quickly review their trading history of buys and sells, with handy metrics like win ratio, over the last 24 hours, last week and all time, easily visible.

I can develop this dataset from Etherscan, but I find this out more quickly, using TUFEXT Tier 2 by simply entering the contract address. This utility has made the purchase of TUF tokens to access this data analysis a great investment, from both a utility standpoint and a financial one.

TUFEXT allows me to rapidly speed up the analysis legwork around wallet discovery, well worth the investment in holding the token.

List by profitability.

List by execution time.

TUFext also sorts just the buy transactions and displays the list of buying wallets by time, from 1st buyer to last. Again, a useful tool to quickly deep dive into wallet history and look at transactions.

Wallet List, by time. Who was the earliest?

It turns out the fastest wallet was the 6th buyer, who paid 0.1ETH ($163.00) for 30,000 SHIBP tokens.

I can click into the Wallet and investigate further.

This particular wallet has only made 2 trades which informs that the wallet was set up by someone specifically for the Shibarium Pad launch.

They may make more trades with this wallet, or not.

I can also see their sells in wallet view. They made 19 sell transactions with a total exit value for $24,808.53 in ETH. The last of their token sale was 4 March, so that profit was made over 5 days.

I can drill down into a wallet buys and sells on an individual token shown by the transaction.

This Token Transactions view shows me:
Rank: (no in series on the token),
Type: (buy/sell)
Transaction Hash: — clickable into Etherscan:
Block Number:
Block Position:
Time stamp:
Token In Value:
Token Out Value:
Price (USD):

As you can see, The TUF Tier 2 Historical Contract and Wallet history analysis greatly accelerates the number of tokens you can review, and the activities and histories of those wallets buying and selling, which is of huge value to developing your own curated ‘smart-crowd’ of buyers for the motivated searcher.

Wallet List

Once you find an interesting wallet — whether by etherscan research or TUFEXT review, enter the Wallet address into Zerion or Debank. You’ll see their wallet balance and see where they received their funds — off-chain or from another wallet- and where they have sent funds. Tracking revenue flows will give you more information to determine if this is an insider or a random winner. This wallet could be connected to another wallet who’s activity is also interesting to follow.

This gives you an idea of the value of TUFEXT in quickly analyzing contracts, wallets, transaction histories, and profitability, to quickly identify interesting wallets.

The TUF platform also provides token pre-launch contract discovery and analysis tools, but that’s a whole separate article subject.

Ideally, you are looking for a wallet with a track record of entries, into well-performing tokens, good revenue, and win rate, which implies they are an insider. This is the type of trading activity to emulate, and the best wallet to follow, to leverage your on-chain analysis skill and efforts.

Once you have a wallet to model, its time to follow their trades:

There are several methods:

• Open a free Etherscan account and set up an email alert to send you automated emails of wallet activity.
• On mobile, a free Telegram wallet tracking bot TrackTx is a great tool t.me@tracktx
• Other analysis platforms have other alert features.
• and when you’re ready to trade, TUF Trackerbot is an option.

When you get an alert :

Do your research first: Don’t immediately buy everything your tracked wallet does! Whales have more money to throw into risky coins than you do.

Make sure the token is safe with online analysis tools like Tokensniffer.com Other Tools like TUFEXT provide data analysis on smart contracts and analysis of the contract in a historical context, and also offer Blockchain execution software (known as sniping software, like TUF SniperBot) which show changes to smart contracts — for instance changes to the Buy and Sell taxes by the contract deployer, in real-time.

Some important risks to check for:

1. Doesn’t look like a honeypot (Means you can buy, but can’t sell)
2. Contact is open source (Means the contract is verified, and you can read it on Etherscan)
3. No blacklist (Means they aren’t selectively blocking wallets from selling)
4. Can not Mint (Means they can’t keep making new tokens)
5. LP is locked (Means they can’t pull the Liquidity Pool, AKA the conventional “Rug Pull”)

Make sure that there is an even distribution of wallet holdings:

• No wallet with over 5% of the tokens
• Top holder is UNISWAPV2 which is the Liquidity Pool
• You can also see the percentage of LP locked. Make sure its high.

Once satisfied the risk profile is low, you’re ready to enter a trade position on the tokens matching your tracked wallet.

Strategy benefits

The advantages of proceeding in this manner are many.

• You are not beholden to influencers — who are promoting tokens, for their benefit, not yours.
• Your source and track wallets meet your trading criteria and trade style, (eg a tracked wallet could have a tendency to be a later buyer, picking up tokens on a dip), so it's customized and personal to you.
• You can develop a unique edge, that no one else has.
• If you do find a wallet with positive expectancy, and history that you have high confidence in, you have the option to go the extra step and purchase TrackerBot software (Like TUF Trackerbot) which scans the mempool for transactions by your selected wallet and automatically enters and exits trades right after your tracked wallets, getting earlier entries and perhaps, higher profitability.

To successfully model this approach, the next steps are all up to you:

• Remember, being early doesn’t necessarily mean being the most profitable.
• Take your initial profit as early as you can so that you’re risk free.
• Play with responsible amounts. 1–3% of portfolio per trade.
• Build your own list of wallets to follow, remove the noise over time.
• Be patient and follow wallets for some time before buying. Pay close attention when they sell.
• Reduce your risks as much as possible by doing your own research.

To develop your industry knowledge

• Join Crypto-twitter and follow leading figures in the industry.
• Join communities, and provide value.
• The more value you provide, the more reciprocated benefits you will receive.

ABOUT TUF: for new launch data analytics.

TUF is a long-established service provider to Crypto market participants, initially providing crypto native blockchain software solutions to the market, its Sniperbots and Trackerbots, and has been selling these successful products to customers for two years+.

To support its software users, TUF developed a platform of on-chain data analytics, TUF Extract at tufext.com providing information and analytics to help its software users and the public avoid scammers and ruggers, supported by its own TUF Token, recently listed on Coinmarketcap.

Unlike so many projects we see, TUF launched its token with a Day 1 project utility decentralized application (DAPP).

At launch, TUF provided a functioning crypto data analytics web service, and has continued to develop and add new functionality for all tier levels, and continues to create and implement new analytics innovations, which means new utility and services for its holders/daily users.

The TUF Ecosphere

TUFext is a highly valuable place to visit, and perhaps stay, as you investigate the new token launch market. The TUF Token telegram channel is a great venue to learn about using TUFEXT and the new token marketplace.

From Q &As, to user group discussions — users make calls, provide token analysis, scam token warnings, new pre-launch token calls, and in-trade and post-trade trading results. Importantly the channel is not friendly to hype or influencer marketing aiming to profit from their followers but focused on reviewing real-time data and analysis provided by the Tufext platform, and assessment of project prospects.

TUFext.com Free Tier offers contract analysis into new tokens deployed on the blockchain, as well as those already deployed, that you may be evaluating for new entry.

TUF Tier 1. gives you further contract analysis to give you information to make better decisions and the Method and methodIDs to set-up a successful new token launch swap transactions. Tier 1 access costs 600,000 tokens (+5% buy tax) so circa $650 at today’s TUF token price circa $1M mcap. There is no cost for ongoing use of TUFEXT site utility, and you can sell your TUF tokens at a profit or loss, at any time.

TUF Tier 2. (1.5M tokens) gives you access to deeper level contract analysis, historical data on project and wallets, to quickly develop your own alpha research, and real-time view into the Mempool — on-chain instructions (like swap this token for that one, with this gas price and max gas limit) that have been submitted to validators but not executed.

TUF Tier 3. (5M tokens) gives you access to on-chain insights and an activity stream of potential high-alpha tokens, Alpha Signals, Inactive Dev Actions and Super Signals (beta) which you can integrate into your blockchain trading software to auto-buy tokens.

I hope a reader has found this useful!

If anyone has any questions, feel free to message winkandsmile on twitter, at https://twitter.com/winkandsmiley