Whale watch?What counts as a whale eventThree kinds of moves get listed here: (1) really big XRP transfers (the size cutoff is set just below), (2) anything touching a wallet we recognize — exchanges, big projects, public companies — that's also above the same size cutoff (token amounts get priced into XRP first), and (3) when one of those recognized wallets opens a trustline to a brand-new token (no size filter — opening a trustline is the signal itself).

How this works: a long-running process subscribes to every validated XRPL transaction and records two things — XRP transfers above the floor (set by the size pill), and any transaction that touches an address on our public watchlist.

The size pills above filter large XRP transfers by magnitude — whales (≥1M XRP) is the strict definition; large (≥100K) and all (≥50K) widen the lens. Tagged and watchlisted activity always shows regardless of size, because the who makes them signal.

The watchlist combines 45 hand-curated first-party entries (sourced from disclosures like Ripple's xrp-ledger.toml) with a broader reference layer drawn from public lists (XRPSCAN well-known names, derived AMM pool and MPT issuer labels). Curated labels take priority; reference labels fill the rest. Each label is shown with its source so you can tell which is which.

All addresses shown are public on the XRP Ledger by design — they appear in every block explorer (XRPSCAN, Bithomp). No private information is surfaced.