Monitoring for DeFi Protocols

Detect stale price feeds across Chainlink, Pyth, and custom oracles before they trigger bad liquidations or mispriced trades. Oracle staleness was the root cause of several major DeFi exploits in 2022-2023. BlackTide reads the on-chain updatedAt timestamp directly from the oracle contract and fires before the staleness window crosses your configured threshold - typically 90–120 seconds for price-sensitive protocols.

Monitor every RPC endpoint your frontend and contracts depend on across all supported chains. Instant alerts when block height lags. A degraded RPC endpoint serving stale block data can cause your frontend to display incorrect token prices, incorrect liquidity positions, or failed transaction simulations. Multi-chain RPC health monitoring ensures every chain your protocol supports is serving live state.

Set percentage and absolute thresholds on total value locked per pool and per protocol. Get paged when assets move unexpectedly. TVL anomalies are one of the earliest on-chain signals of an exploit in progress - large, coordinated withdrawals often precede public exploit disclosure by 10–30 minutes. Getting paged immediately when TVL drops beyond your threshold gives your team a critical response window.

Watch for pauses, upgrades, ownership transfers, governance executions, and any custom event your ABI defines - in real time. Protocol DAOs frequently upgrade contracts or pause pools through governance. Monitoring for upgrade and pause events ensures your ops team knows about state changes the moment they happen - whether triggered by governance or by an emergency circuit breaker.

Auto-create incidents and publish to your status page when critical events fire. Route alerts to PagerDuty, Slack, or Telegram. When a critical alert fires, BlackTide can automatically create an incident, page the on-call engineer via PagerDuty or Telegram, and publish a preliminary status update to your public status page - all without human intervention during the most critical response minutes.

Flag unusual contract interactions, flash loan patterns, and large wallet movements that precede exploit attempts. Flash loan attacks typically involve large borrows, complex multi-hop swaps, and repayment within a single transaction block. While BlackTide cannot detect the transaction content in real time, it monitors the downstream effects - rapid TVL changes, oracle divergence, and unusual wallet activity - that indicate an exploit is in progress.