Aggregated token balances held by smart money traders and funds across multiple blockchains.
What it does
The Nansen Smart Money Holdings endpoint returns aggregated token balances currently held by sophisticated traders and funds across multiple chains (Ethereum, Solana, Base, BNB, Arbitrum, and more). It excludes whales, large holders, and influencers to focus specifically on trading expertise. Data includes 24-hour balance change tracking updated in real time, sector categorization for tokens, holder counts, market cap, token age, and share-of-holdings percentages.
The endpoint accepts a POST request with a JSON body specifying chains to analyze and optional filters such as smart money label inclusion/exclusion (Fund, Smart Trader, 30D/90D/180D Smart Trader), stablecoin/native token toggles, value ranges, holder counts, token age, market cap, and token sector. Results are paginated (up to 1000 per page) and sortable by fields like value_usd, holders_count, balance_24h_percent_change, and more.
Pricing is $0.05 per call via the x402 protocol. The endpoint also supports Nansen's credit system (50 credits on free tier, 5 on pro). Rate limits are enforced per-second and per-minute, reported via response headers. The API uses OpenAPI 3.1 and requires an API key in the `apiKey` header, or x402 payment via the `Payment-Signature` header.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Identify which tokens sophisticated traders are accumulating across chains
- —Monitor 24-hour balance changes of smart money wallets for trading signals
- —Screen tokens by sector and smart money holder count for research
- —Build dashboards showing smart money allocation shifts in real time
- —Filter holdings by market cap, token age, or specific smart money labels for alpha generation
Fit
Best for
- —Crypto traders tracking smart money accumulation patterns
- —DeFi researchers analyzing fund and smart trader portfolios
- —Trading bots that need real-time smart money position data
- —Portfolio managers benchmarking against sophisticated on-chain participants
Not for
- —Historical time-series analysis (use the historical-holdings endpoint instead)
- —Individual wallet-level breakdowns (this returns aggregated data only)
- —Non-crypto or traditional finance portfolio tracking
Quick start
curl -X POST https://api.nansen.ai/api/v1/smart-money/holdings \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'apiKey: YOUR_API_KEY' \
-d '{"chains":["ethereum"],"pagination":{"page":1,"per_page":10}}'Example
Request
{
"chains": [
"ethereum",
"solana"
],
"filters": {
"value_usd": {
"min": 1000
},
"token_age_days": {
"max": 365
},
"include_stablecoins": false,
"include_native_tokens": false,
"include_smart_money_labels": [
"Fund",
"Smart Trader"
]
},
"order_by": [
{
"field": "value_usd",
"direction": "DESC"
}
],
"pagination": {
"page": 1,
"per_page": 10
}
}Response
{
"data": [
{
"chain": "ethereum",
"value_usd": 5200000.5,
"token_symbol": "PEPE",
"holders_count": 87,
"token_address": "0x6982508145454ce325ddbe47a25d4ec3d2311933",
"token_sectors": [
"Memecoin"
],
"market_cap_usd": 3500000000,
"token_age_days": 420,
"share_of_holdings_percent": 0.035,
"balance_24h_percent_change": 0.12
}
],
"pagination": {
"page": 1,
"per_page": 10,
"is_last_page": false
}
}Endpoint
Quality
Full OpenAPI 3.1 schema with detailed request/response models, clear pricing ($0.05/call via x402), and a live 402 MPP challenge confirmed. Docs are embedded in the OpenAPI spec rather than external pages, and no example responses were captured from the probe, but the schema is comprehensive enough to infer them confidently.
Warnings
- —No external documentation pages were reachable (docs, pricing, README all returned 404-like errors); all information is derived from the OpenAPI spec.
- —Response schema references ($ref SmartMoneyHoldingsResponse) were not fully resolved in the probe bundle, so the example response is inferred from field descriptions in the OpenAPI spec.
Citations
- —Endpoint is POST /api/v1/smart-money/holdings with x402 payment at $0.05 per callhttps://api.nansen.ai
- —Credit cost is 50 (free tier) or 5 (pro tier) per callhttps://api.nansen.ai
- —Aggregated balances exclude whales, large holders, and influencers to focus on trading expertisehttps://api.nansen.ai
- —Supports chains including ethereum, solana, base, bnb, arbitrum, avalanche, and morehttps://api.nansen.ai
- —MPP 402 challenge confirmed live via HEAD probehttps://api.nansen.ai/api/v1/smart-money/holdings