How Hopchain works
1. Paste an address
Drop any wallet or contract address (EVM, Tron or Solana — or an .eth name) into
the box on the home page and hit Check Wallet. Hopchain checks which chains that address
has actually been active on — currently Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, OP Mainnet,
BNB Chain, Avalanche, HyperEVM (Hyperliquid's EVM), Robinhood Chain, Tron and Solana, with
more networks planned — and pulls its transaction history from every chain where it
finds activity. Names of known addresses exist for Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, OP
Mainnet, BNB Chain and Avalanche; HyperEVM and Robinhood Chain have none yet, so connections
there show up as unknown more often.
2. See who it's transacted with
Every address your wallet has directly sent to or received from becomes a node in the graph, sized by how many transactions connect the two of you. The All Connections list below the graph shows the same data as plain text — useful for scanning quickly or for connections too small to stand out visually.
3. Known entity vs. unknown address
Some addresses belong to things Hopchain can identify — exchanges, DeFi protocols, token contracts, bridges — and those show up amber, labeled by name. Everything else is an ordinary wallet or unlabeled contract Hopchain has no name for, shown in grey as "unknown." Unknown doesn't mean suspicious — most wallets simply aren't publicly labeled anywhere.
4. Click a wallet to explore its own network
Click any node — or any row in the connections list — and Hopchain "hops" to that address, showing its own connections in turn. This is how you trace a chain of wallets: where did this address's funds ultimately come from, or where did they end up? Each hop is a real, shareable URL, so you can send someone directly to a specific wallet's page.
5. Expand a connection to see exactly what moved
Click the small arrow (▸) next to any connection in the list to load the actual transactions between your wallet and that address — token amounts, which direction they moved, and when. Amounts sent from your wallet are shown in red, amounts received are shown in green.
6. What "Approval" means
An Approval isn't a transfer — it's a permission. When you interact with a DeFi app (a DEX, a lending protocol), you typically have to approve its contract to move a certain amount of a token on your behalf before it can actually do so. Hopchain shows these separately from real transfers, with the amount approved (or "Unlimited" if the app requested no cap — very common, but worth being aware of) and which contract received the approval. Read more about unlimited approvals and how to revoke them.
7. Flagged addresses get their own explainer
When a connection is flagged red as a known scam, exploit or phishing address, its badge links to a short guide page explaining why — what it's flagged as, and what to do about it.
8. The badge at the top: what it does and doesn't mean
Every wallet page shows one badge summarizing that specific address — never its connections, only the address you actually searched. Flagged means the address itself is in our own scam-label data or came back flagged by a live GoPlus Security check, or — on Tron — is on Tether’s USDT blacklist. Too new/too little activity means nothing was flagged, but there's too little history to say much either way. Anything else shows as no flags found — which is not the same as "safe": it only means nothing turned up in the sources we check, and those sources are real but incomplete — no scam/label database covers every address, on every chain, up to the minute.
One more limit worth knowing: the live GoPlus check returns data for Ethereum-compatible addresses on every EVM chain we read. For Tron and Solana addresses it does not return data yet. On Tron the badge therefore rests on our own label data, Tether’s USDT blacklist (Tether freezes addresses, typically after law-enforcement requests or because of sanctions) and the wallet’s age; on Solana only on our own label data and the wallet’s age. The badge says which. If the live check cannot be completed at all, the badge says that instead of showing “no flags found”.
9. It's free, and there's nothing to connect
Hopchain never asks you to connect a wallet or sign anything — it only reads public on-chain data for whatever address you type in. There's no account, no signup, and no limit on which addresses you can look up (reasonable rate limits just keep the tool available for everyone).
10. How is this different from MetaSleuth or Arkham?
Hopchain is a quick overview of who a wallet has dealt with, with nothing to sign up for. Investigation platforms such as MetaSleuth go much deeper: they follow funds across chains, cover more networks and offer alerts and APIs, usually behind an account and monthly limits. See the side-by-side comparison with MetaSleuth to decide which one fits your task.