Transaction Analysis Prompt
Explains what a specific transaction did, what it authorised, and what risk it left behind.
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Use before signing an unfamiliar transaction, or to understand one after the fact. Explains what a specific transaction did, what it authorised, and what risk it left behind.
Explain this transaction in plain language, then assess its risk. TRANSACTION Chain + hash: [DATA] Decoded calls / method: [DATA] Contracts touched: [DATA] Token movements: [DATA] Approvals granted: [DATA] Output: 1. What this transaction did, in two sentences a non-developer understands. 2. Every permission it granted, and whether each is bounded or unlimited and time-limited or permanent. 3. Residual risk after the transaction (standing approvals, delegated authority, position exposure). 4. Anything unusual: unexpected contracts, hidden transfers, non-obvious recipients. 5. Concrete cleanup actions, if any (revoke, reduce allowance, move funds). If the decoded data is insufficient to be certain, say so explicitly.
It swapped 5,000 USDC for TOKEN through an aggregator router, routed via two pools. Permissions: an unlimited, permanent USDC allowance to the router. Residual risk: that allowance stays open indefinitely and remains exploitable if the router is upgraded maliciously. Unusual: none. Cleanup: reduce the allowance to zero now that the swap is complete.
What does the Transaction Analysis Prompt prompt do?
Use before signing an unfamiliar transaction, or to understand one after the fact.
Which AI models work with this prompt?
It is model-agnostic: it works with any capable general model. Replace the bracketed variables with your own context before running it.
What output should I expect?
It swapped 5,000 USDC for TOKEN through an aggregator router, routed via two pools. Permissions: an unlimited, permanent USDC allowance to the router. Residual risk: that allowance stays open indefinitely and remains exploitable if the router is upgraded maliciously. Unusual: none. Cleanup: reduce t.
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Related concepts
The vocabulary this page depends on.
- →Smart Contract
A smart contract is code deployed to a blockchain that executes deterministically when called, holding balances and enforcing rules without an operator.
- →Gas Fee
A gas fee is the network payment for computation and storage in a transaction, priced by demand rather than by trade size.
- →Token Approval
A token approval grants a contract permission to move your tokens — persistent, often unlimited, and the most common source of avoidable losses.
- →Bridge
A bridge moves value between blockchains by locking or burning on one side and issuing a representation on the other.
Related workflows
Turn this into a repeatable process.
- →Analyze A Wallet With AI
Turn a raw transaction history into a readable profile: strategy, holding periods, risk behaviour and realised performance.
- →Automate Repetitive Web3 Actions
Replace manual claims, approvals and rebalances with scoped automations that cannot spend more than you allowed.
- →Audit MCP Tool Security
A checklist that catches the failure modes unique to model-driven tool calls.
- →AI Agent + Web3 Execution
Give an AI agent on-chain capability safely: read freely, propose openly, and sign only inside hard-coded limits.
Related tool stacks
The tools that run it in production.
- →On-chain Research Stack
Explorer, indexer and analytics layers combined so wallet and token questions get answered with verifiable data.
- →AI Security Stack
Least-privilege tooling, approval gates and audit trails for agentic systems.
Related prompts
Reusable prompts for this job.
- →Autonomy Boundary Prompt
Defines exactly what an agent may do alone, with approval, or never.
- →AI System Threat Model Prompt
Produces a concrete threat model for an AI system with tool access.
- →Smart Contract Risk Prompt
Reviews contract facts for the patterns that let a deployer or attacker take user funds.
- →Wallet Analysis Prompt
Turns a transaction export into a behavioural profile: strategy type, timeframes, risk pattern and whether the wallet is worth watching.
Related use cases
How people apply it, and what came out.
- →Monitor Wallet Transactions
Alerting on the user's own wallet activity caught an unauthorised approval attempt and forced an approval cleanup that removed 14 standing allowances.
- →Automate Repetitive Web3 Actions
Automating reward claims and gas top-ups with session keys and spend caps saved about 5 hours per month with no unbounded authority.
Comparisons & alternatives
Pick between the options.
- →Rabby vs OKX Web3 Wallet
Rabby is the safety-focused EVM wallet with pre-transaction simulation; OKX Web3 Wallet trades some of that depth for multi-chain breadth and built-in trading.
- →Hot Wallet vs Cold Wallet
Hot wallets trade convenience for exposure; cold wallets trade friction for a signing key that never touches an internet-connected device.
- →Smart Money vs Technical Analysis
Smart money tracking reads who is positioning; technical analysis reads how price behaves. They answer different questions and fail differently.
- →Web2 Apps vs Web3 Apps
Web2 apps authenticate with accounts and store state on private servers; Web3 apps authenticate with a wallet signature and keep state on a public chain.