Arbitrum One • Global

Upgrade Tracker for high-frequency DeFi trading desks

Monitor proxy upgrades, admin key usage, and smart contract governance changes across your portfolio. Manages positions across DEX venues, farming programs, and on-chain derivatives with a high tolerance for volatility and a need for speed. Detect anomalies, suspicious approvals, and governance changes before funds are at risk. Teams operating in 24/7 markets with globally distributed contributors.

  • Proxy implementation tracking with ABI diffs and change logs.
  • Alerts for admin role transfers, new privileged addresses, or initialization calls.
  • Historical timeline for compliance and incident response reports.
  • Fragmented liquidity and sudden gas spikes erode trade execution.

Key metrics

Contracts monitored

Unlimited

Add addresses manually or sync from Portfolio watchlists.

Alert latency

< 1 minute

On-chain event listeners flag upgrades almost instantly.

Arbitrum One profile

High-throughput rollup popular with sophisticated DeFi protocols.

Rollup compression keeps most swaps under $0.30 with finality in seconds.

Unique insights

  • Arbitrum One: Rollup compression keeps most swaps under $0.30 with finality in seconds. Pair this with upgrade tracker to live monitoring of contract upgrades, proxy changes, and admin key usage..
  • Global: Balance FATF Travel Rule guidance with country-specific VASP licensing expectations. Align active defi traders workflows with tighter slippage and lower transaction costs per trade..
  • For high-frequency DeFi trading desks, emphasize Covers major proxy patterns (OpenZeppelin, EIP-1967, custom implementations). and track Mean time to detect high-risk contract events. weekly.

Why teams rely on this tool

Core capabilities

Proxy implementation tracking with ABI diffs and change logs. Alerts for admin role transfers, new privileged addresses, or initialization calls. Historical timeline for compliance and incident response reports.

Audience fit

Fragmented liquidity and sudden gas spikes erode trade execution. Tighter slippage and lower transaction costs per trade.

Arbitrum One focus

GMX, Camelot, and perpetual protocols rely on deep liquidity analytics. Live monitoring of contract upgrades, proxy changes, and admin key usage.

Operational playbook

  1. 1Add contracts or proxies to monitor.
  2. 2Receive alerts when implementations change or privileged accounts rotate.
  3. 3Review diffs, update documentation, and share with stakeholders.

Use cases

Live monitoring of contract upgrades, proxy changes, and admin key usage. Requires tooling that supports asynchronous collaboration, multi-timezone monitoring, and localized communications.

Token scanner sweeps of newly listed assets interacting with your treasury. Requires tooling that supports asynchronous collaboration, multi-timezone monitoring, and localized communications.

Mapping transacting wallets to known entities for counterparty risk scoring. Requires tooling that supports asynchronous collaboration, multi-timezone monitoring, and localized communications.

Proof points

  • Used by compliance teams to maintain change management logs.
  • Helps DAOs communicate upgrades to token holders with decoded summaries.
  • Feeds security tooling for automated regression testing.

ChainUnified tools that pair well

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Frequently asked questions

Which proxy standards are supported?

We cover transparent, UUPS, Beacon, and custom proxy patterns commonly used in DeFi protocols.

Do you detect initialization calls?

Yes. Initialization and reinitialization calls trigger high-priority alerts.

Can alerts feed into PagerDuty or Slack?

Alerts deliver via webhook, PagerDuty, Slack, or email depending on your workflow.

Upgrade Tracker for Active DeFi traders in Global | Risk monitoring & incident response on Arbitrum One