Recently I’ve been looking at a bunch of “smart money tags/address clustering” tools—they’re pretty convenient, but lately I’m getting less and less willing to trust them completely... To put it plainly, they just write wallets as if they were characters. One address might be a “whale” today, but tomorrow it could be just some multi-signature/pooled wallet moving stuff around; clustering is even more mystical—once the same batch of funds goes in and out of CEXs and gets routed through a cross-chain hop, you basically can’t tell who’s actually in control in the end.

My own habit these days is: treat tags only as hints, and focus on the “actions” of fund flows—when they enter the pool, withdraw liquidity, whether contract interactions are newly launched, and whether there’s any weird approve. If I can write scripts, I run logs and check at least so I know who I’m dealing with.

Also, lately hardware wallets have been out of stock, and phishing links are everywhere... The more these kinds of times come, the less you should worship “address profiling.” When people are anxious, they’re more likely to click the wrong thing. Anyway, I’d rather go slower, check the domain name/signature contents two more steps, and stay alive first.