Frequently Asked Questions

Hashtory turns raw blockchain data into plain English. Paste a transaction hash or wallet address into the Reader and Hashtory explains exactly what happened: who sent what, to whom, and which protocol was involved.

Hashtory includes a full dashboard, showing your net worth across your wallets, a portfolio tracker with holdings, a transaction timeline builder, a watchlist for monitoring onchain activity, a complete wallet activity report, and blockchain investigation tools. Hashtory simplifies what happens on the blockchain and explains it to you in a way that doesn't require you to be a technical crypto expert.

Anyone who interacts with crypto but finds raw blockchain data confusing. That includes everyday holders trying to understand their own transactions and portfolios, people who received a transfer and want to verify it, compliance teams tracing on-chain activity, and analysts who want a human-readable summary alongside the raw data.

Hashtory reads publicly available data directly from the blockchain and runs it through an AI engine that identifies transaction types, the parties involved, the assets transferred, and relevant protocol context (DeFi, NFT, staking, and so on). The result is a short, structured explanation in plain English.

The same principle powers every part of the platform: your dashboard balances, portfolio, activity report, and investigations all read live, public, on-chain data. Hashtory states only what the data shows. It does not offer opinions, speculation, or financial advice.

Hashtory is accurate for standard transaction types, including ETH transfers, ERC-20 token swaps, NFT mints and sales, staking deposits, and similar common operations. Complex multi-hop DeFi transactions or interactions with obscure protocols may receive a less detailed explanation. Hashtory always labels the transaction type it identified, and you can cross-reference any transaction on a block explorer at any time.

A blockchain is a public, permanent record of transactions maintained by thousands of computers around the world simultaneously. Instead of one company (like a bank) keeping a private ledger, a blockchain's ledger is open for anyone to read and is controlled by no single party. Once a transaction is written to the blockchain, it cannot be altered or deleted. It is there permanently.

A transaction is a signed instruction recorded on the blockchain. It could be as simple as sending cryptocurrency from one address to another, or as complex as interacting with a smart contract to swap tokens, mint an NFT, or deposit funds into a lending protocol. Every transaction has a unique ID (the transaction hash) and is permanently visible on the blockchain.

A transaction hash (sometimes called a tx hash or txid) is the unique identifier for a blockchain transaction: a long string of letters and numbers, for example 0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060.

You can find your transaction hash in your crypto wallet's transaction history, on a block explorer such as Etherscan, or in a confirmation email from an exchange.

A wallet address is a public identifier, like an account number, that anyone can send funds to. It is a long string of letters and numbers. Sharing your wallet address is safe: it does not give anyone access to your funds. Only the private key (which should never be shared) can authorize spending from a wallet.

Gas fees are the (usually) small amounts of cryptocurrency paid to the network to process a transaction. They compensate the computers (validators or miners) that do the work of verifying and recording transactions. Gas fees fluctuate based on network demand: when the blockchain is busy, fees rise, and when it is quiet, they fall. Gas fees are charged even if a transaction fails.

A smart contract is a program that runs automatically on the blockchain when certain conditions are met, with no middleman required. DeFi protocols, NFT marketplaces, and token swaps all run on smart contracts. When you interact with a smart contract, the transaction is recorded on-chain just like any other transfer, which is why Hashtory can explain what happened.

When you paste a transaction hash, Hashtory returns a plain-English breakdown of what happened: the transaction type (transfer, swap, NFT mint, staking deposit, and so on), the sender and recipient addresses (with labels where known, such as ENS names or protocol names), the assets and amounts involved, the date and time it was confirmed, the gas fee paid, and whether the transaction succeeded or failed.

For complex transactions involving multiple steps, such as a DeFi swap that routes through several pools, Hashtory identifies each leg and summarizes the net result.

The wallet reader summarizes a wallet's recent activity: total funds in and out, top assets held, notable transactions (large transfers, DeFi interactions, NFT activity), and a plain-English narrative of what the wallet has been doing.

The Reader supports more than 25 networks, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Bitcoin, and Solana. Dashboard features (net worth, Portfolio, and the Activity Report) cover Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Bitcoin, and Solana.

The dashboard is your Hashtory home base once you create an account. It includes seven sections: Overview (your net worth and market summary), Reader (the transaction and wallet explainer), Timeline (a chronological view of transactions you choose), Portfolio (your holdings, NFTs, and token approvals), Watchlist (monitor any on-chain address), Intelligence (AI-assisted investigation tools), and Activity Report (a complete record of your on-chain activity).

The Overview shows the combined value of the wallets you have saved to your account: total value in US dollars, a breakdown across native coins (such as ETH, POL, BNB, AVAX, BTC, and SOL), stablecoins, and other tokens, plus a market summary for the assets you hold and your recent activity. Balances are read directly from the blockchain and refresh each time you visit.

Portfolio is a detailed view of everything your saved wallets hold. The Holdings tab lists each asset with its amount, price, and share of your total value. The NFTs tab shows your NFT collections with floor prices where available. The Approvals tab lists every active token approval your wallets have granted. A value history chart records your portfolio total each day you visit.

When you use a DeFi app, you grant it permission to spend specific tokens from your wallet. These permissions are called approvals, and they stay active until they are revoked, even if you stop using the app. Hashtory lists every active approval found for your saved wallets, including the amount approved and whether the approved contract is verified. Revoking an approval requires a transaction signed by the wallet owner. Hashtory displays approvals but cannot change them.

Timeline turns a set of transactions into a single chronological story. Paste up to 25 transaction hashes and Hashtory arranges them in order with a plain-English label for each one, so you can follow a sequence of events across multiple transactions in one view.

Add any wallet address to start monitoring it. Choose what triggers an alert, and Hashtory watches so you don't have to. Large transfers, DeFi interactions, NFT trades, and more. Alert preferences are saved to your account.

The Activity Report is a complete record of a wallet's on-chain activity. Select one or more wallets, set a date range (a calendar year, the last 30 or 90 days, or a custom range), and generate a report showing every transaction with its date, type, asset, amount, US dollar value, fee, counterparties, and transaction hash. The full report can be exported as a CSV file for your own records.

Intelligence is Hashtory's investigation workspace, available on the Validator plan. It lets you open a case, describe what you want to understand, and work through it in conversation with an AI analyst that reads on-chain data as you go. Findings are collected on an evidence board, and you can generate a structured written report at any time.

Connecting a wallet shares one thing with Hashtory: the public wallet address. Hashtory never asks you to sign a transaction, never requests your private key or seed phrase, and cannot move funds or make any change to your wallet. Connecting is equivalent to typing your address manually; it is simply faster and avoids typos. You can also add addresses manually without connecting anything.

Saved wallets power your own numbers: the Overview net worth, Portfolio, and Activity Report all read from the wallets saved to your account. The Watchlist is for monitoring activity on any address you choose. The two lists are separate, and adding an address to one does not add it to the other.

All balances, transactions, and approvals are read directly from public blockchain data through established blockchain data providers. Prices come from market data services. The plain-English explanations are generated by an AI engine that is instructed to state only what the on-chain data shows: no opinions, no speculation, and no financial advice.

Hashtory tracks on-chain wallet addresses, which means it works with self-custody wallets: wallets where you hold the keys, such as MetaMask, Ledger, Trezor, Phantom, or any wallet app that gives you an address you control.

Funds held on an exchange work differently. Exchanges pool customer assets into large shared company wallets, and your account balance is a record in the exchange's internal ledger, not a balance at an address of your own. Because of this, there is no on-chain address that represents your personal exchange balance, and adding an exchange's wallet address to Hashtory will show the pooled activity of many customers, not yours.

If you want Hashtory to track assets currently on an exchange, withdraw them to a self-custody wallet and add that address. Anything you withdraw becomes visible on-chain and trackable from that point forward.

Hashtory counts the on-chain balances of the wallet addresses saved to your account. Funds held on an exchange (such as Coinbase or Kraken) sit in wallets controlled by the exchange, not at your personal address, so they are not included. If you move funds from an exchange to your own self-custody wallet, they will appear in Hashtory after the transaction confirms. See "Does Hashtory work with exchange accounts like Coinbase or Kraken?" above for why exchange balances have no on-chain address of their own.

Yes. The Reader on the homepage works with no account required, and a free account includes 5 transaction lookups and 2 wallet lookups per day. Limits reset automatically every 24 hours.

Node ($7/month) removes lookup limits and unlocks the full dashboard: Timeline, Portfolio, Watchlist, and the Activity Report with CSV export.

Validator ($39/month) includes everything in Node plus the Intelligence section. Full details and annual pricing are on the Plans page.

Go to Account, then Manage billing. Hashtory uses Stripe for payments, and the billing portal lets you upgrade, downgrade, update your card, or cancel at any time. If you cancel, your plan stays active until the end of the period you already paid for.

No. Hashtory only reads publicly available blockchain data. You never need to enter a private key or grant any permissions. A transaction hash or wallet address is all that is required. Both are public information visible to anyone on the blockchain.

No. Hashtory is a read-only tool. It cannot initiate transactions, move funds, or interact with your wallet in any way. It only retrieves and explains data that is already publicly visible on the blockchain.

Transaction and wallet results are cached to improve performance and reduce load times for all users. Cached results are keyed on the transaction hash or wallet address, not on your identity. If you are signed in, your lookup history is saved to your account so you can revisit past results from the dashboard.

No. The homepage Reader works without an account. An account unlocks the dashboard: saved wallets, net worth, Portfolio, and your lookup history, with the full feature set available on the Node and Validator plans.

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