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Solana Whale Flows

CEX deposits, DeFi rotations, and stablecoin flows on Solana. Plain language. Hand-curated entity labels. No cluster-speculation.

Last update: 2026-07-10 23:02 UTC · auto-refresh every hour · live data from Helius Enhanced TX

Live snapshot

Today (24h) 891 whale-tier transfers
24h volume $1.09B 4.02M SOL native + SPL
Active whales (30d) 3,835 unique addresses
Label coverage (24h) 93.6% 191 curated entities

Two-Layer live feed

Top SOL moves in the last 24 hours

Each row shows what happened (Layer 1) and why it might matter (Layer 2). Largest USD value first. Threshold: ≥500 SOL OR ≥$50K USD-equivalent for SPL tokens with stable pricing.

50.00M USDT moved to Coinbase (exchange deposit)
Could indicate selling pressure or rebalancing — coins are positioned to be sold.
$50.0M 02:16 UTC
vFo6YS…pxyh
34.43M USDT moved to Coinbase (exchange deposit)
Could indicate selling pressure or rebalancing — coins are positioned to be sold.
$34.4M 15:17 UTC
2XmuYq…BwzN
411.7K SOL internal transfer (OKX)
Operational sweep — same owner, hot/cold wallet rotation. No external flow.
$32.0M 18:54 UTC
2EQyFt…67DU
387.6K SOL internal transfer (OKX)
Operational sweep — same owner, hot/cold wallet rotation. No external flow.
$30.1M 20:47 UTC
3rZufW…SdU4
20.18M USDC withdrawn from Coinbase
Often interpreted as accumulation or cold-storage move — coins leave the venue where they could be sold.
$20.2M 12:09 UTC
5TkgSB…Lc32
17.51M USDC internal transfer (Binance)
Operational sweep — same owner, hot/cold wallet rotation. No external flow.
$17.5M 07:20 UTC
5pZBXA…NkkN
15.64M USDC internal transfer (Binance)
Operational sweep — same owner, hot/cold wallet rotation. No external flow.
$15.6M 02:04 UTC
3FKvuR…imFk
14.49M USDC internal transfer (Binance)
Operational sweep — same owner, hot/cold wallet rotation. No external flow.
$14.5M 13:55 UTC
4pzybH…6R1W
173.5K SOL internal transfer (OKX)
Operational sweep — same owner, hot/cold wallet rotation. No external flow.
$13.5M 20:47 UTC
62xSSV…PcWt
12.75M USDC internal transfer (Binance)
Operational sweep — same owner, hot/cold wallet rotation. No external flow.
$12.8M 04:05 UTC
5rNVzd…wnvs

Cross-asset context

BTC + ETH + SOL today (last 24h): 685 BTC whale-trades · 244 ETH whale-trades · 891 SOL whale-trades. Cross-asset rotation is detected automatically across all 5 tracked assets (1h, 24h, 7d windows) and surfaced in our daily brief.

Entity-label transparency

What we know — by entity-type

191 hand-curated SOL entities, each Helius-validated. Phase 3 launches with the seed-set; growth via incremental community-curation. Want a label added? Open an issue →

exchange 177
dex 5
token 4
staking 3
bridge 1

Doctrine disclosure

What we do not claim

We do not cluster SOL addresses. Per ADR-003, our 5-day spike showed automated SOL clustering does not pass the 60% snapshot-coverage floor at our scale. CEX hot-wallets are operationally segmented (zero shared TXs in 25 days), Helius does not expose entity-labels in the way our spec assumed, and Solscan / SolanaFM moved their labels API to Pro-tier.

What you see here is what we know: hand-curated entity labels (Helius-validated), real on-chain flows above whale-tier threshold, and Solscan-links for verification. Unknown addresses are shown truncated. We do not infer ownership.

Future work: cluster-detection retry with a different test-set (DeFi-power-users, where the cluster-shape is different from CEX hot-wallets). Plus webhook-based importer if polling tip-lag exceeds 5 minutes. See ADR-003 for the full decision log.

FAQ

Frequently asked

What counts as a SOL whale transaction?

Any on-chain transfer ≥ 500 SOL native OR ≥ $50,000 USD-equivalent for SPL tokens with stable pricing (USDC, USDT). Wrapped-SOL gets the same both-OR treatment as native. Other SPL tokens (BONK, JTO, PYTH, etc.) are tracked but not yet USD-priced — on the roadmap.

Why no cluster-attribution?

Our 5-day spike (ADR-002) tested three clustering methods. Helius-Labels: 4.1% coverage (REJECTED). Multi-instruction co-participation: 0% precision because CEX hot-wallets share zero TXs. Hybrid: same coverage problem. Net-Score 2.03 vs the ETH-Hybrid winner at 7.86. We chose to ship transparent whale-flow tracking instead of a half-built cluster-engine — Plain Language doctrine: say what we know.

What does "rent-reclaim" mean?

Solana garbage-collects accounts with zero balance after closure. 23% of historical whale-addresses we observed are no longer queryable on-chain — they got rent-reclaimed. Our schema separates account_alive_at_observation from current-state lookups so you know whether an address was alive when we saw it, even if it isn't anymore.

How do I get the raw data?

REST API at /v1/sol/whales/recent, /v1/sol/whale/<signature>, /v1/sol/address/<addr>, /v1/sol/labels. Bearer-token auth (free tier sufficient for Phase-3 launch). The /v1/sol/labels endpoint is the transparency-feature: see exactly what we claim to know.

When does the page update?

Every hour at the top of the hour. Importer polls Helius every 60 seconds, so live data lags <2 minutes from chain-tip. For real-time alerts, use the SOL Bluesky feeds (Phase-3 D5).