How to use Trivial.co to explore the Ethereum network

It’s not easy to hack your way through the Ethereum network jungle, and every day it gets increasingly dense. Strewn across your path are millions of addresses and thousands of contracts.

Jan Wozniak
Trivial.co

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Looking just at ERC20 token contracts, in November 2017 there were around 17 thousand listed. The growth is startling. As of today, there are over over 77 thousand!

This large number obviously includes tokens that are either non-existent or scams designed to confuse people. As a quick example, if you search Qtum, you find 16 tokens (and of course, QTUM Cash and Gold)!

The majority of tokens have no value or utility. However, Coinmarketcap lists nearly 600 ERC20 tokens that people are willing to exchange, buy and sell.

When looking for your next investment, the only way to discover projects of true value is to dive deeper into the details of each token, analyze the key fundamentals, and extract a few statistics from the Ethereum network.

Trivial is sifting the most important data related to tokens and Ethereum addresses, and we are proud to announce the beta version of our tool, which gives some interesting insights. It’s a great launch pad for researching, discovering and tracking crypto projects and individual addresses.

So let’s run through a few functionalities…

Once you land on Trivial, you can see at a glance some of the more popular and active tokens.

You can start off by browsing an extensive list of categories, or filter by tokens according to certain metrics:

  • Active Today
  • Highest Market Cap
  • Most Holders
  • Transactions per Holder per Month
  • Market Cap by Monthly Active Users (MAU)
Homepage

If you click on a token, then you can view its profile with key information.

This includes:

  • Brief description
  • Links to the project website, whitepaper, blog, social media and Github
  • News — Reddit and Medium posts
  • Top Holders — useful for checking distribution
  • Related Tokens owned by Holders — calculated by relative popularity against all Ethereum addresses
  • Statistics — Daily Active Users (DAU), Transactions per Day, Transactions per Holder (Daily)

For each token you can also check the Daily Active Users, Transaction per Day and Transactions per Holder.

Network Stats

These are useful metrics for seeing the activity of the token. Soon we hope to chart monthly activity, which will allow at a glance to see spikes or falls in activity.

All token activity data is taken from a database which queries a Parity node. Some background info on how this is calculated:

  • “user” = an account which called the ERC20 transfer() method of a token.
  • “tx” = number of ERC transfer() calls for a given token.
  • “day” = last day (e.g. 25/04)
  • “month” = last month (e.g. 04/2018)
  • “market cap / MAU” = current market cap from Coinmarketcap divided by number of unique accounts which called ERC20 transfer() method of a token in last last month (updated every hr)
  • “Txs / Holder / Month” = number of ERC20 transfer calls in the previous month divided by the current number of holders.

Due to the transparency of the Ethereum network, tracking a variety of addresses of interest is a Trivial matter.

With our tool you can add all your favourite addresses and get full information on balances of Ether and tokens, as well as details of all incomings and outgoings.

Individual Address Profile

Trivial’s ‘Add Addresses’ function is useful for storing your own addresses, and by using Trivial you can access an intuitive interface for quick checks on your balances and transfers.

You can also keep track of any addresses, and get notified of incomings and outgoings; useful for tracking activity of friends, investors with a good track record, whales or token creators.

NOTE: No data is stored on our servers, but rather all in your browser’s local storage (ok, its not great for working across multiple devices/browsers, but it is very secure!). In the future, if there is interest, we will might provide an option for logging in.

Add Addresses

Once you add a few addresses and tokens, then you can keep track of developments through a newsfeed. Posts are pulled from Reddit and Medium and transfers in/out of your favourite addresses directly from Ethereum blockchain.

Trivial’s Advanced Search is a cool tool for finding specific addresses. By filtering all addresses on the Ethereum network, its possible to pinpoint specific addresses according to search criteria.

For example, I’m interested in finding someone who:

  • Created an account between Jan 17 and May 18
  • Balance of 5–100 ETH
  • Holds ICON, DRGN + QTUM tokens
Finding Addresses thru Advanced Search

Only 5 addresses for this particular criteria!

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It’s always great to get feedback, so please let us know what you think of this tool, and if there are any features you would like to see added in the near future?

Researching the Ethereum network should be Trivial.

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