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Smart Money: Top ICP Traders

The wallets that made the most realized profit trading ICP tokens on ICPSwap — what they sold for more than they paid. Every number comes from the swaps themselves. Open a wallet to see all its trades and transfers.

Past profit is not advice

A wallet that made money before can lose it on its next trade, and a wallet can belong to anyone. This ranking shows what happened on-chain; it is not a recommendation to copy anyone. This is not financial advice.

How the ranking is calculated

Every ICPSwap swap of a wallet counts as selling one token and buying the other, both at the swap's value in US dollars. Each token is tracked at its average cost over the wallet's whole swap history, so profit is what a sale brought in above that cost. Only sales inside the chosen period count; tokens bought earlier are included at their real cost.

The ranking uses profit on traded tokens. ICP and USD stablecoins (ckUSDC, ckUSDT, icUSD, VCHF) count as cash: their own gain or loss is shown separately as the ICP / USD leg, otherwise the ranking would mostly follow the ICP price. Tokens a wallet sold without us seeing it buy them (received by transfer, bought on another exchange) count as bought at the sale price — they add no profit, so missing history cannot create fake profit.

Left out: canisters (pools, routers, aggregators), accounts labeled from primary sources (DEX pools, DAO treasuries, protocol and minting accounts), high-frequency bots — more than 100 swaps per active day, or a median of under a minute between swaps over at least 10 active days — and wallets with fewer than 3 trades or under $500 sold in the period. A sale more than 20% away from the pool's median price in the hour around it adds no profit, so one odd trade in a thin pool cannot top the list. Only ICPSwap swaps are counted; trades on other exchanges and transfers between wallets are not profit. The list is rebuilt once a day. See also How it works.

Smart Money FAQ

What is smart money in crypto?

Wallets whose trades turned out well. On ICP Tokens it means the wallets with the highest realized profit from trading ICP tokens on ICPSwap in the chosen period — measured from their swaps, not from claims.

What does realized profit mean?

Profit that was locked in by selling: the price a token was sold for minus what it cost on average. Tokens a wallet still holds are not counted, whatever their price does.

Why are ICP and stablecoins counted separately?

Selling ICP for ckUSDC after the ICP price rose is a gain on ICP itself, not on a token pick. Counting it would turn the ranking into an ICP price chart, so that part is shown on its own as the ICP / USD leg.

Can I see what a wallet traded?

Yes. Each wallet links to the Explorer with its balances, every ICPSwap trade and every transfer. The tokens under “Profit from” link to their token pages.

How often is the ranking updated?

Once a day, from all ICPSwap swaps in our database (the same data as the charts and Whale Alerts).