Locking tokens is often seen as a strong positive signal. When a developer locks tokens, it typically leads to an immediate price reaction. However, usually, it’s only after a dev locks tokens for a certain period that the official Twitter account of the project announces the lock-up status and shares related links. So, how can we proactively find out if a developer has locked tokens and understand the specifics of the lock-up?

Let’s take the $sora project (89nnWMkWeF9LSJvAWcN2JFQfeWdDk6diKEckeToEU1hE) as an example. When a developer locks tokens, they transfer them to a lock-up contract. To check this, we need to examine the dev’s transaction activities. Which tool is best for this? I chose Debot.

The Debot team@Diting188 previously worked on the Diting monitoring tool for several years. Now they’ve rebranded to@DitingData and expanded their offerings to include features like transaction monitoring and data analysis. You can visit their website here. Why didn’t I choose other tools like gmgn, xxyy, or bullx? These websites don’t list transaction activities directly, meaning you’d need to search for the specific transactions using the dev’s address on Solscan.

Once you open Debot and enter the correct address, you can find all of the dev’s activities at the bottom of the screen in the developer section (shown as “1” in the image). The $sora dev made a buy and sell transaction, followed by a 100M token purchase, which was split into two transfers (shown as “2”). You can check these two transactions to see their purpose. By clicking the icon in “3,” you will be redirected to Solscan for more details.

Let’s take a look at the 99.2M token transfer(https://solscan.io/tx/NsEGHgmvk4a8YKfXABwzWAxceQfgXJdTJjgxQK1UNAqXTKB6TPDmNnkGRCfssC8ny4eXXRSLjkrYwFtcoVFxGJR), where you can see the details in the image. In section “2,” you’ll notice the “Streamflow” label, which refers to the address. Streamflow is a popular lock-up platform on Solana. Seeing this tag indicates that the transaction is for locking tokens. However, the full lock-up details aren’t available here, so we need to visit the Streamflow website.

Copy the address in section “1” from the image, and replace the word “address” in the URLhttps://app.streamflow.finance/contract/solana/mainnet/ with the copied address. This will give you the linkhttps://app.streamflow.finance/contract/solana/mainnet/29yU8G68MPkmrXBzpd89rA1Rw7CBQ4kxWQGnxPSX8yM8. When you open this link, you’ll see the lock-up details as shown below.

In the image, you’ll see the lock-up start time is 1.15 at 10:08, and the unlock time is 3.12 at 10:08. The lower part of the image shows the lock-up specifics. There are no unlocked tokens, meaning all 99M tokens are locked. It also shows that 24.75M tokens will be unlocked every two weeks, with the next unlock scheduled for 1.29 at 10:08 — exactly two weeks later.

Based on the analysis above, we can now understand the specific details of the dev’s first 99.2M token transfer into the lock-up contract. Next, let’s compare this with the information published on the official Twitter account.

The official Twitter announced a 6-month lock-up, but two facts here are incorrect:

1. Based on our analysis above, the lock-up period is actually 2 months, not the 6 months stated by the official Twitter.

2. The actual lock-up follows a linear unlocking schedule. Every two weeks, 24.75M tokens are unlocked, and with a total of 99M tokens, this will be completed in 4 unlocks over a 2-month period. This crucial detail was completely omitted from the official Twitter announcement.

There’s also another transaction of 829.6K tokens that wasn’t mentioned by the official Twitter. Let’s analyze this transaction as well(https://solscan.io/tx/4CF8AzLcMFsVjWUvqaWqc2hpjdqh3J2QPNNmPSLqNVty9CgQi8yo7BSqt8UC76hdeH9BfRuTEScw9SQJ4t2T3ZHM), and here are the details:

In the image, we can see that the dev transferred these tokens to the Streamflow contract as well. So, what’s the actual lock-up situation? Let’s take note of the address from the image and create the link:https://app.streamflow.finance/contract/solana/mainnet/7ZHbyK7W8TGsDGaVK8LAVcUdis56o9BE7cz8iyznyF9Y. After opening the link, we can see the details.

The image shows the green text “unlocked,” and the unlocked token amount is 828.04K, with 0 tokens locked. This means the dev just transferred the tokens to the Streamflow contract without actually locking them. Without a thorough analysis, we wouldn’t have known this.

The above explanation walks through how to analyze whether the lock-up is legitimate and what the actual lock-up details are based on the dev’s transaction history. If we want to know immediately whether the dev has made any transfers, we need to monitor the dev’s address closely in real-time. When it comes to monitoring, I continue to recommend Debot. The reason is simple: Debot is the most feature-rich tool I’ve used for monitoring.

Key Features of Debot Monitoring:

1.Wallet Monitoring with Custom Grouping

Debot allows you to configure different addresses to send updates to different groups.

Normally, all monitored addresses are pushed to the same group, but this doesn’t reflect the priority if you categorize them by quality. My earlier solution was to develop a secondary system to forward messages to different groups based on categories. Debot, however, supports pushing any address to any group directly.

2.Wallet Group Monitoring

For example, you can set up an alert if three different addresses make purchases within 10 minutes. This is a very practical feature because it filters out noise from a single address while ensuring that you don’t miss any trending tokens. I’ve been using this strategy for a long time with great results, and I’m glad to see that Debot now supports it too. This strategy can even be extended to automate trading based on the alerts, and according to Debot’s team, this feature will be available soon.

3.Token Monitoring

Debot lets you track the price and market cap fluctuations of tokens. A standout feature is the ability to monitor changes in the top N token holders, making it an excellent tool for tracking large investors’ movements.

4.Twitter Monitoring

These are just some of the highlights; Debot offers many other useful features as well, such as address analysis similar to gmgn and channel monitoring like chain.fm. With chain.fm monitoring, Debot can track the overall trading activity of addresses by group and even view individual transactions. It also allows for tracking this information under specific tokens.

Debot link: https://debot.ai?inviteCode=175623

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