BNA – whale tracker Discord bot for Idena

This is a Discord bot for the Idena project. Its main purpose is to show notifications about movements of iDNA coins, CEX and DEX trades, and various on-chain events. It also has commands that you can run in Discord to show recent on-chain and market stats.

Features

• Notifications:
  • For large iDNA transfers on the native Idena chain and on BSC
  • For transfers by interesting addresses (e.g. developers' wallets)
  • For native chain events:
    • Terminations of old identities or identities with large stake
    • Mass identity changes by pools (terminations, delegations, undelegations)
  • For large DEX volume on BSC (trades and liquidity changes)
  • For large CEX volume (BitMart, ProBit, ViteX)
  • For when an identity enters a "stake club" (like 100k stake club, etc.)
• Commands:
  • For recent chain and market stats
  • For recent pool changes
  • For top recent events of some type (transfers, DEX trades, stake replenishments, terminations)
  • For showing the rank of identity according to its stake and age
• Lists of transactions/identities can be moved through with buttons
• Notifications for recent events of a similar type to a new event get updated in place
• Built in command rate limiting and per-command authorization
• Most configuration is done using commands by authorized users

Screenshots

Notifications	Commands
DEX transactions	Chain and market stats
DEX or CEX volume	Top DEX transactions
Transfers by interesting addresses	Top transfers
Mass pool changes	Pool stats
Stake club membership	Identity rank

and more in the screenshots folder.

Running the bot

Requirements

Must have:

• 2GB of RAM, reliable internet connection
• Discord app with bot functionality enabled
• BSC endpoint (HTTP and WS, I recommend QuickNode - their free plan is enough)

Can be installed by Docker automatically:

• Idena node (regular non-indexer node, no identity required)
• PostgreSQL database
• Python 3.10

Installing and running

Using Docker:

1. Fill out the env_docker file
2. Install and run:

docker compose up

The initial node synchronization may take a very long time. You can speed it up by enabling FastSync in docker_idena/idena-conf.json (which disables the full node) and rebuilding the image, or by putting a complete snapshot of idenachain.db into node's volume.

Or manually:

0. Install and start PostgreSQL and an Idena node
1. Fill out the env file
2. Install required libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the bot:

python main.py -env env

First time setup

1. Add your bot to a server using a link like this: https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&scope=bot&permissions=3072
2. As the dev user (which is specified in an env file):
   1. Run /change_admins command to set users/roles that can run settings commands
3. As an admin (or as the dev user):
   1. Run /change_command_roles command to set roles which can run general commands
   2. Run /notification_channel command to set the channel where event notifications will be sent
   3. Adjust thresholds for events using other commands

TODO

• Show accolades next to addresses (notable stake, age, or pool size)
• Parse contract calls and multisig movements
• Tracking oracles and creating relevant events
• Handle known addresses in a better way
• Use an indexer node instead of a regular node

Inner workings

If you ever want to modify something, here's a brief overview. The project is structured in three parts: listeners, tracker, and the Discord bot. All the parts (and their subparts) run as asynchronous tasks and communicate events via queues.

• Listeners (idena_listener, bsc_listener, cex_listeners) connect to their data sources, generate events like Transfer and Trade, and send them to the tracker.
• Tracker receives events from listeners, inserts them into the database, and generates user-facing events if needed.
• Discord bot receives events from the tracker and formats them into messages. It also calls methods on the tracker to get data to generate command responses.

Attributions

Libraries used:

• aiohttp - Apache License Version 2.0, Copyright aio-libs contributors
• colorlog - MIT License, Copyright (c) 2012 Sam Clements
• dacite - MIT License, Copyright (c) 2018 Konrad Hałas
• disnake - MIT License, Copyright (c) 2021-present Disnake Development
• psycopg - LGPL-3.0 License, Copyright (C) 2020 The Psycopg Team
• pytest - MIT License, Copyright (c) 2004 Holger Krekel and others
• sortedcontainers - Apache License Version 2.0, Copyright 2014-2019 Grant Jenks
• websockets - BSD 3-Clause License, Copyright (c) Aymeric Augustin and contributors

Copyright and license

This program is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE file).

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