explain_transaction
Explain one transaction's routing and origin
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Classify a single transaction against the attribution engine: which frontend or router originated the trade and by which evidence, the pools it touched, any fee recipients, and whether it was sandwiched.
Confidence is per-vector and is reported per result -- a calldata suffix is strong evidence a specific frontend tagged the swap, while a fee recipient is indirect evidence and is never rated high. Pass that qualification through instead of stating the frontend flatly.
estimated_volume_usd (only with price=true) is a best-effort spot price on the dominant leg. It is an approximation for orientation and must never be quoted as a settlement figure. Fee amounts are exact raw token integers with no decimals or pricing applied. deep=true costs more upstream credits; leave it off unless a shallow classification came back unattributed.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| tx_hash | string | yes | The transaction hash, 0x-prefixed hex. Must exist on `chain`: this does not search the other chains, so a hash from the wrong chain returns nothing rather than an error. |
| chain | string | no | One of: ethereum, base, arbitrum, optimism. Defaults to ethereum, and an unrecognised value falls back to ethereum rather than failing, so pass the transaction's actual chain explicitly. |
| deep | boolean | no | Run the deeper classification pass. Slower. Worth setting only when the default pass came back unattributed. |
| price | boolean | no | Include price and value context alongside the routing classification. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"tx_hash": {
"description": "The transaction hash, 0x-prefixed hex. Must exist on `chain`: this does not search the other chains, so a hash from the wrong chain returns nothing rather than an error.",
"title": "Tx Hash",
"type": "string"
},
"chain": {
"default": "ethereum",
"description": "One of: ethereum, base, arbitrum, optimism. Defaults to ethereum, and an unrecognised value falls back to ethereum rather than failing, so pass the transaction's actual chain explicitly.",
"title": "Chain",
"type": "string"
},
"deep": {
"default": false,
"description": "Run the deeper classification pass. Slower. Worth setting only when the default pass came back unattributed.",
"title": "Deep",
"type": "boolean"
},
"price": {
"default": false,
"description": "Include price and value context alongside the routing classification.",
"title": "Price",
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"tx_hash"
],
"type": "object",
"title": "explain_transactionArguments"
}