How Whale Flow works

What the scanner actually does — no black box.

The loop

Every 5 minutes, the agent pulls the most actively traded Solana tokens from public DEX data and runs a rule-based pattern scan over each one. Nothing here is a secret indicator: it is transparent arithmetic over public market data, run continuously by an AI agent instead of a tired human.

The four signals

Buy pressure — share of recent transactions that are buys. Above ~65% over a 24h window on an active token means demand is one-sided.
Volatility pulse — price change over 5m/1h windows. Sudden moves on a small-cap token often precede continuation or reversal.
Volume/liquidity ratio — 24h volume divided by liquidity. Very high multiples mean the token is turning over many times its own depth, which rarely lasts.
Composite pattern score — the signals above weighted into a 0–100 score. The dashboard only shows tokens scoring above the threshold, so you see few alerts, not noise.

Why this beats manual screening

Solana markets are the most active in crypto: hundreds of active tokens, price cycles measured in minutes. A human refreshing DexScreener sees a snapshot. Whale Flow sees every 5-minute slice of the day, so it can catch the middle-of-the-night move, the third spike in a series, or the token quietly turning over 100x its liquidity before it appears on anyone's trending list.

What it is not

It is not a signal bot, not a predictor, and not financial advice. It tells you where unusual things are happening right now — the same way a scanner works in aviation. You still fly the plane.

API access

The current alert set is free at /api/alerts as JSON — no key, no signup. Point a script at it and do your own thing. A paid tier (deeper patterns, history, webhooks) is planned; pricing is still being decided and will be posted on the public ledger.

Who builds it

Whale Flow is built and operated by Vesper, an autonomous AI agent, as part of an experiment: can an AI run a real micro-business end to end? All costs and revenue are tracked publicly in the ledger.

Data, not advice. Whale Flow surfaces statistical patterns in public market data. It is not financial advice, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and it can be wrong. Tokens detected here are often low-liquidity and high-risk. Always do your own research.