# TrollBridge Whale Watch — Ethereum Mempool Large Transaction Monitor

> TrollBridge Whale Watch — Ethereum Mempool Large Transaction Monitor is a paid API for AI agents from mini-tollbooth.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Returns the largest-value unconfirmed Ethereum transactions currently in the mempool, ranked by native ETH value

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mini-tollbooth.onrender.com/whale-watch?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/trollbridge-whale-watch-ethereum-mempool-large-transaction-monitor-e8dc5857
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_GxTWOm2-N4RSEC_4pYOoX

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability trollbridge-whale-watch-ethereum-mempool-large-transaction-monitor-e8dc5857
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the top 20 largest unconfirmed Ethereum transactions in the mempool right now so I can see what the whales are moving?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time visibility into the largest pending Ethereum transactions before they are confirmed — ideal for whale tracking, market sentiment analysis, or front-running detection. Unlike confirmed-block explorers, this gives mempool-level insight. Note it covers native ETH value only and does not include ERC-20 token transfers or USD pricing.

## Known failure modes

- Chain parameter set to something other than 'ethereum' — only Ethereum mempool is supported
- Limit out of range (must be 1-50) — may return error or default
- Mempool temporarily empty or sparse — returns fewer results than requested
- Blockchair upstream outage — endpoint may return error or stale data
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) — x402 payment required at $0.05 per call

## How this service works

The insurance booth for AI agents, with Mini's Agent Supply Store on the side of the road. One hundred checkpoints: pre-transaction safety lanes (honeypot, approval-risk, rug-score, receipt-check, tx-dryrun, permit-scan, airdrop-verdict, deployer-history, wallet-watch, secret-scan at $0.02 USDC per call; the protection tier — /contract-check, /approval-screen, /tx-plain-english, /honeypot-check, /tx-simulate, /redteam, /skill-scan, /verdict, /egress-audit, /tool-gate, /airlock, /repo-scan, /prove, /task-scope — at $0.10; the one-call /shield don't-get-rugged screen at $0.25; the full /preflight bundle at $0.05), bounty intel (bounties, fresh, verdicts, deadlines, sweepstakes, opportunities) at $0.02 USDC per call, trader intel (/prices and /quant at $0.02; /enrich and /token-check at $0.05; /contract-check and /honeypot-check at $0.10; /sec-facts at $0.05), market intel (/markets and /search at $0.05; /grants at $0.02), DeFi intel (/yields and /new-pairs at $0.05; /gas and /defi at $0.02), AI intel (/models at $0.02), agent-ops intel (/prompt-cost, /model-picks, /rpc-speed, /terms-tldr, /scrape, /gigs, /retry-verify, /idempotency, /verify-independent at $0.02; /site-watch, /wallet-check, /code-run, /regulatory-pack, /sage, /cron-watch, /caveat-check, /tripwire, /escrow, /trust, /bridge-fees, /dao-votes, /dev-activity, /dex-arb, /dydx-perps, /funding-rates, /gas-predict, /hack-tracker, /long-short-ratio, /lp-yields, /mev-scan, /open-interest, /perp-basis, /polymarket-odds, /rwa-watch, /sentiment, /stablecoin-flows, /tokenomics, /top-movers, /whale-watch, and /yield-stable at $0.05; /approval-screen, /tx-plain-english, /tx-simulate, and /task-scope at $0.10; /scam-scan deep scan at $5.00 or 30-day subscription at $30.00), supply store (/road-pack combo meal at $0.05; curated datasets, the /audit-prep pre-audit review, and the /prove-state symbolic-execution run at $1.00; the /audit AI-agent audit at $25.00). Every lane answers before money moves — heuristic verdicts, not audits. Don't get rugged.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the chain name, count, data source attribution, and an array of whale transactions each containing: transaction hash, sender address, recipient address, unconfirmed status, timestamp first seen, native ETH value, and gas price in gwei. Note: USD pricing is not included since Blockchair does not price mempool transactions.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 200,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Max items to return. Omit for the full feed."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "lane": "/whale-watch",
  "note": "Largest-value unconfirmed transactions by native ETH value. Values are native only — Blockchair does not USD-price mempool txs.",
  "chain": "ethereum",
  "count": 2,
  "source": "blockchair mempool (keyless)",
  "whales": [
   {
    "hash": "0x72ca5782bfd64ae7…",
    "sender": "0xf5dcc621a3dc…",
    "status": "unconfirmed",
    "seen_at": "2026-10-07 00:30:40",
    "recipient": "0xdac17f958d2e…",
    "value_eth": 0,
    "gas_price_gwei": 0.166176893
   }
  ],
  "description": "Whale movements ($0.05) — largest-value unconfirmed Ethereum mempool transactions, ranked by native ETH value"
 }
}
```

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