Unit 4 · Level 2 · Tools of the trade
The analyst's daily loop
Good on-chain analysts run a loop, not a binge: check overnight alerts, sweep the watchlist for anything unusual, pick at most ONE anomaly to investigate properly, log what was found, then close the laptop. Twenty focused minutes daily beats a six-hour dashboard trance on Sunday, because the chain rewards consistency of attention, and the log turns scattered observations into pattern memory.
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What you get asked
Order the analyst's daily loop
Triage, sweep, investigate, log, stop. The 'stop' is a real step: unbounded scrolling produces fatigue and coincidences, not insight.
Why investigate only ONE anomaly per day instead of all of them?
One verified conclusion ('that inflow was an internal shuffle') is worth more than ten open loops. Unfinished investigations are how false narratives sneak in.
What does the daily log mainly buy you months later?
'I flagged this unlock; what happened after?' The log turns anecdotes into your own base rates, which is how intuition honestly gets built.
The loop bundles the whole league: alerts watch the whales, the watchlist holds the labels, and every anomaly is treated as a ___ to verify, never a signal to blindly follow.
Unit 1 gave you the flows, unit 2 the actors, unit 3 the skepticism, unit 4 the routine. One word carries the whole method.
This morning's sweep shows a team wallet you track sent tokens worth 3x daily volume to an exchange. Per the loop, what's next?
That's exactly what the 'investigate one anomaly' slot is for: big, decision-relevant, time-sensitive. Verify first, then act on what you confirm, sized by your rules. 🐜
The rest of this unit
Explorers, watchlists, alerts and a daily loop: build your own on-chain radar.