A home-side watcher polls every Coinbase USD market, builds a rolling
volume history per coin, and reports a whale alert when trading volume spikes hard — a
“whale” moving into the market. New alerts pop a banner here; opt into email to catch
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What counts as a whale
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What counts as a whale
The watcher fetches these thresholds every cycle. SuperAdmins manage them in the admin panel.
Runtime
Setting
Value
What it does
interval_seconds240
Seconds between watcher cycles.
Thresholds
Setting
Value
What it does
max_age_hour_threshold48
Hours -- data points older than this are dropped from the merge.
min_24h_volume_threshold750000
Minimum USD 24-hour volume for a coin to be alert-eligible.
min_5m_volume_threshold70000
Minimum USD 5-minute volume for a coin to be alert-eligible.
min_active_threshold10
Minutes -- a coin needs a data point this recent to count as active.
min_occurrence_threshold50
Minimum number of data points a coin needs to be merged.
rank_pull_threshold50
Top-N coins by volume are always pulled every cycle.
Whale
Setting
Value
What it does
whale_24h_vol_percent_change32
Alert when summed 24-hour USD-volume percent change exceeds this.
whale_5m_vol_percent_change9000000
Alert when summed 5-minute USD-volume percent change exceeds this.
