[Show and Tell] zkWilly - zkSync Whale Alerts

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Project Name

zkWilly

Repo Link

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Demo Link (Optional)

https://zkwilly.lol

Technologies Used

Typescript, Svelte, Terraform, Vercel, Supabase, AWS

Describe your project. What does it do? Why did you create it? Any interesting challenges you faced?

zkWilly is a whale transaction tracker for zkSync, much like whale-alert.io is for other notable layer 1's. We track and alert large transactions on Twitter/X & also simply on our site.

We created zkWilly as a fun, simple project to get a feeling for the size of transactions and uptake on zkSync. Using a service like l2beat we can see the growth of layer 2 projects on metrics like TVL, but we were interested in seeing things on a more granular level also. We think it's interesting to shine a light on large value transactions and accounts to leverage a key benefit of public blockchains.

In regards to implementation, we had to design the backend for high throughput and scale as we wanted to store all block transaction data for potential analytics in future. Since running for the last week we have already processed 789118 blocks, with transactions from over 300k unique addresses, of which 4399 transactions being classified as coming from various sized whales (>10-10000 ETH txns).

The only major challenge we faced/face is the prevalence of sybil transactions. With the data we are collecting, it is clear to see a number of addresses that are transferring amounts between addresses, likely to try and qualify for some arbitrary upcoming airdrop criteria.

It's cool to see the things that the data shows in any case!

What specific feedback are you looking for?

Ways we could augment the data we are collecting to provide more valuable and interesting insights

How can the community help or contribute to your project?

Provide any input or suggestions, potentially around helping to identify who controls certain addresses so we could build an index/lookup

Additional Information (Optional)

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