Smart Websockets

Stay Connected

Scalable. Customizable. Easy to set up. Websocket notifications for web3 actions you care about.

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Features

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New Events and Logs

With filtered subscriptions to on-chain events, monitor transfers and state changes in real time to track your users swaps and transactions and optimize their user experience.

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Pending Transactions

Build analytics products to illuminate the Dark Forest, and notify users as their transactions move through the mempool.

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Mined Transactions

Monitor transactions on any exchange or wallet with filtered streams. Your users can get real-time updates about the on-chain activity they care about.

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New Heads

Get notified about any blockchain state change, e.g., block depth confirmation or a block change so you know to make an eth_call.

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Features & Benefits

Stay connected. Get notified.

SDK compatible

Set up a websocket connection with a single command. Available on the Alchemy SDK.

Customizable

Websockets for diverse actions, info and events mean you can customize what you and your users are notified about.

Scalable

With client-side subscriptions, any number of clients can open connections, enabling linear scalability with front-end applications.

Smart Websockets

Webhooks

Types of Notifications

• Mined transactions
• Pending transactions
• New heads
• New events/logs

• Mined transactions
• Dropped transactions
• Address activity
• NFT activity
• NFT metadata changes

Communication Protocol

Bi-directional (chain <> app)

Uni-directional (chain > app)

Implementation

Slightly easier

Sightly more complex

Infrastructure Resilience

Less robust

More robust

Tech Stack Structure

More distributed

More centralized

Subscriptions API

Types of
Notifications

• Mined transactions
• Pending transactions
• New blocks
• New events/logs

Communication Protocol

Bi-directional (chain <> app)

Implementation

Slightly easier

Infrastructure Resilience

Less robust

Tech Stack Structure

More distributed

Notify API

Types of
Notifications

• Mined transactions
• Dropped transactions
• Address activity
• NFT activity
• NFT metadata changes

Communication Protocol

Uni-directional (chain > app)

Implementation

Slightly more complex

Infrastructure Resilience

More robust

Tech Stack Structure

More centralized

// Setup: npm install alchemy-sdk

import { Alchemy, AlchemySubscription } from "alchemy-sdk";

const alchemy = new Alchemy();

req.body as AlchemyWebhookEvent;

// Listen to all new blocks on Eth Mainnet.

alchemy.ws.on("block", (blockNumber) => console.log("Latest

block number -> ", blockNumber) );

`);

// Listen for mined transactions from target addresses

alchemy.ws.on( { method:

AlchemySubscription.MINED_TRANSACTIONS, addresses: [ { to:

"0x473780deaf4a2ac070bbba936b0cdefe7f267dfc", }, ], includeRemoved: true, hashesOnly: false, }, (tx) => console.log(tx) );

// Setup: npm install alchemy-sdk

import { Alchemy, AlchemySubscription

} from "alchemy-sdk";

const alchemy = new Alchemy();

app.post("/webhook-path", (req, res)

// Listen to all new blocks on

Eth Mainnet.

alchemy.ws.on("block", (blockNumber)

=> console.log("Latest

block number -> ", blockNumber) );

console.log(`Processing webhook event

// Listen for mined transactions from

target addresses

alchemy.ws.on( { method:

AlchemySubscription.MINED_TRANSACTIONS,

addresses: [ { to:

"0x473780deaf4a2ac070bbba936b0cdefe7f267dfc", }, ], includeRemoved: true, hashesOnly: false, }, (tx) => console.log(tx) );

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We use Alchemy’s Smart Websockets (specifically the newHeads method) to be immediately notified when new blocks are added to Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism. This method has driven a 3x latency improvement in our ingestion process, and as Alchemy optimizes the API, we continue to see improvements to performance.

Kartik Patel

Head of Protocol, OpenSea