Quickstart

Watch your first contract and get a live dashboard for it.

1. Create an account

2. Watch a contract or wallet

From the app, click + Add account on the home page and enter an address. contract.dev detects whether it is a contract or a wallet:

Contracts are watched on a specific chain.
Wallets are watched across every chain they are active on.

Or do the same from the terminal:


npm install -g contract.dev
 
contract.dev login
contract.dev watch 0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48 --chain 1 --name "USDC"

3. Explore

Watched accounts light up three surfaces:

Home — a live map of your app: your accounts per chain, TVL, 24-hour volume, and the value flowing between them.
Contracts & Wallets — every watched account with its own dashboard: TVL, usage, methods, assets, money flows, and counterparties for contracts; net worth, portfolio, and approvals for wallets.
Activity — a cross-chain feed of your accounts’ transactions, with block, transaction, and address views.

See Mainnet Analytics for the full tour.

Next: stage before you ship

When you want to test contract changes against production state — without touching production — create a Stagenet: a private fork that replays the real chain.

Stagenet quickstart