Transaction Intelligence
What Transaction Intelligence is
Transaction Intelligence takes one transaction hash and explains it in plain words. It tells you whether the transaction succeeded, who sent it, what it touched, what moved, and whether any token approvals were granted along the way.
When to use it
Use it when you are holding a transaction hash and you want to know what it actually did. Common questions it answers: did my transfer go through, or did it revert. What did this transaction move, and to whom. Did signing this hand a contract permission over my tokens.
Where to find it
In the dApp, open Transaction Intelligence from the Intelligence section of the left sidebar.
- Choose the network the transaction was sent on from the Network dropdown.
- Select Open Wallet Trace to continue there with your details carried across. Nothing runs until you choose to.
The Network dropdown covers Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain. Pick the network the transaction was actually sent on. Cognivo never quietly swaps to a different network to find a match, so a hash pasted against the wrong network returns nothing rather than the wrong answer.
On some networks, Cognivo already covers this question through Wallet Trace, which follows the money one hop at a time. Where that is the case, the page tells you so and gives you a link instead of running anything by itself. Your details are carried across when you follow it, and no analysis starts until you choose to open it.
What you get back
Where the analysis runs inside the tool, you paste the Transaction hash and select Analyze. A valid hash starts with 0x and is 64 characters long, and the field tells you when what you have pasted is not one.
The result opens with a one-line read, for example that the transaction succeeded on the selected network and moved a given number of token transfers. Under it you get:
- Overview, with status, block, time in UTC, gas used, from, to, and native value.
- Token movements, listing what moved and between which addresses.
- Approvals, counting any token approvals granted in this transaction, and flagging approvals still open afterwards. An open approval lets a spender move those tokens later, so it is worth reviewing anything you did not expect.
- Contracts touched, so you can see what the transaction interacted with.
- On-chain evidence, plus a link to view the transaction on a public explorer.
A failed transaction is reported as failed and reverted, which means no changes took effect. A transaction with no token or native movement is reported that way too, rather than being padded out.
If nothing comes back you see Transaction not found, with the note that no receipt was returned for this hash on the selected network and that Cognivo did not substitute another one. That means Cognivo could not verify the transaction where you asked, not that the transaction does not exist anywhere. Check the hash, then check the network.
Cost
Transaction Intelligence does not charge credits today. Across the product, anything that does cost credits quotes the price first and only charges after you say yes, and only when a real result comes back. Declining or cancelling never costs anything. See Billing and credits for how the daily free credits work.
What to do next
To follow the funds beyond this single transaction, hop by hop, open Wallet Trace. To review every approval a wallet has open rather than the ones in one transaction, see Wallet security and approvals.