{
  "schemaVersion": "vultax-feature-mirror-v1",
  "slug": "whale-tracker",
  "title": "Large Trades: Polymarket and Bitcoin",
  "description": "The Polymarket trades above Vultax’s published size threshold, and the large BTC prints captured by the same public trade feeds — venue, side, size and source time on every row.",
  "mirrorSummary": "The Polymarket trades above Vultax’s published size threshold, and the large BTC prints captured by the same public trade feeds — venue, side, size and source time on every row.",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://vultax.com/features/whale-tracker",
  "availability": {
    "status": "live",
    "message": "The Polymarket trade tape is open to everyone in the app. Crypto whale views sit in the crypto workspace and depend on feed coverage and plan access."
  },
  "workspace": {
    "label": "Open the Vultax workspace",
    "url": "https://app.vultax.com/analytics/activity"
  },
  "downloads": {
    "json": "https://vultax.com/features/whale-tracker/data.json",
    "markdown": "https://vultax.com/features/whale-tracker/page.md",
    "schema": "https://vultax.com/features/schema.json"
  },
  "tables": [
    {
      "id": "btc-large-trades",
      "title": "Largest captured BTC trades",
      "description": "Large prints returned by the existing public exchange trade endpoints.",
      "coverage": "BTC/USD and BTC/USDT; source threshold 100000 USD, lookback 30 minutes. At most ten largest captured prints.",
      "columns": [
        {
          "key": "venue",
          "label": "Exchange",
          "format": "text",
          "unit": null
        },
        {
          "key": "side",
          "label": "Taker side",
          "format": "text",
          "unit": null
        },
        {
          "key": "value",
          "label": "Trade value",
          "format": "usd",
          "unit": "USD"
        },
        {
          "key": "btc",
          "label": "BTC",
          "format": "number",
          "unit": "BTC"
        },
        {
          "key": "at",
          "label": "Trade time",
          "format": "datetime",
          "unit": "UTC"
        }
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "id": "print-0",
          "values": {
            "venue": "coinbase",
            "side": "buy",
            "value": 395000,
            "btc": 5,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:40:41.000Z"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "print-1",
          "values": {
            "venue": "kraken",
            "side": "buy",
            "value": 250000,
            "btc": 3.167,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:40:34.000Z"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "print-2",
          "values": {
            "venue": "kraken",
            "side": "buy",
            "value": 205888,
            "btc": 2.608,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:40:36.000Z"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "print-3",
          "values": {
            "venue": "coinbase",
            "side": "buy",
            "value": 178944,
            "btc": 2.265,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:40:41.000Z"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "print-4",
          "values": {
            "venue": "kraken",
            "side": "buy",
            "value": 146220,
            "btc": 1.852,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:40:59.000Z"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "print-5",
          "values": {
            "venue": "kraken",
            "side": "buy",
            "value": 145200,
            "btc": 1.839,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:40:26.000Z"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "print-6",
          "values": {
            "venue": "kraken",
            "side": "buy",
            "value": 137248,
            "btc": 1.738,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:40:36.000Z"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "print-7",
          "values": {
            "venue": "kraken",
            "side": "buy",
            "value": 119038,
            "btc": 1.505,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:40:43.000Z"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "print-8",
          "values": {
            "venue": "kraken",
            "side": "sell",
            "value": 118961,
            "btc": 1.508,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:40:57.000Z"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "print-9",
          "values": {
            "venue": "kraken",
            "side": "sell",
            "value": 106311,
            "btc": 1.349,
            "at": "2026-09-18T13:39:46.000Z"
          }
        }
      ],
      "notes": [
        "Trade endpoints return capped recent samples; this is not a complete 30-minute tape. Empty results do not prove no large trades occurred.",
        "A large print does not identify a trader or prove directional intent. Exchange prints and Vultax detector alerts are different populations."
      ],
      "kind": "market-snapshot",
      "status": "fresh",
      "statusReason": "Within this table’s source-time freshness window; prices can change between observations.",
      "observedAt": "2026-09-18T13:40:04.000Z",
      "modifiedAt": null,
      "rowCount": 10,
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Vultax crypto pack · public BTC trade endpoints",
          "url": "https://vultax.com/live/crypto.json"
        }
      ],
      "downloads": {
        "json": "https://vultax.com/features/whale-tracker/data.json?dataset=btc-large-trades",
        "csv": "https://vultax.com/features/whale-tracker/data.csv?dataset=btc-large-trades"
      }
    }
  ],
  "research": [
    {
      "title": "115,006 Large-Trade Alerts: Where and When Crypto Whales Trade, by Venue and Hour",
      "url": "https://vultax.com/research/crypto-whale-trades-115000-alerts-six-exchanges",
      "publishedAt": "2026-09-03",
      "description": "Every large-trade alert Vultax logged on six exchanges from 18 June to 3 September 2026: HTX carried 56% of large-trade notional, flow stayed close to balanced, 13:00–16:00 UTC held 23.6% of alerts, and weekends ran 23–30% quieter."
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "slug": "event-intelligence",
      "title": "Crypto Market News and Exchange Status",
      "url": "https://vultax.com/features/event-intelligence"
    },
    {
      "slug": "orderbook-heatmap",
      "title": "Bitcoin Order Books and Exchange Depth",
      "url": "https://vultax.com/features/orderbook-heatmap"
    },
    {
      "slug": "wallet-intelligence",
      "title": "Polymarket Trader Rankings and Wallet Research",
      "url": "https://vultax.com/features/wallet-intelligence"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Public tables mirror existing Vultax source packs. They do not include account data, private watchlists or the complete app dataset.",
    "Source time, coverage and limitations apply to each table. Missing values are unavailable, not zero."
  ]
}