"It's not dead, it's just resting!" Jun 10 2021: Still alive. High gas fees, as well as much better success trading stocks & options than crypto, have kept me away. So this project lays in a persistent vegetative state, not dead but not truly alive, missed by its loved ones but otherwise ignored by the all-too-short memories of a world that has moved on. I will be back to revive this, I am sure this is not over, but exactly when is anybody's guess. Probably when ETH2 makes gas cheaper and/or the traditional finance market doesn't have as many opportunities as it does now. Stay tuned, and do feel free to drop me a line at [email protected].
"I'M NOT DEAD YET!" Mar 30: Hi. I'm alive and so is the project. I got out of DeFi afew months ago following substantial trading losses, so this project is kind of dormant until I'm ready to get back into trading crypto again. That day WILL come, but I don't know when yet, and I'll resume development at that point. I still have plenty of ideas and enthusiasm for eventually making this an indispensable tool. You can email [email protected] with questions in the meantime. Be well!
CURRENT NEWS, Oct 16: 1.) This script is in a bit of a state of transition, as it no longer fully works with DEXTools following their switch to a different toolbox under-the-hood, but I haven't yet finished adapting it to be fully functional on Astrotools.io or the other sites I want it to work with. I should have it sorted in a few days, hopefully.
2.) I've been unbanned from Telegram, if you knew about that. Still deciding whether I want to stay with that platform, but for the moment, the announcement channel is still http://t.me/ApopheniaProjects. If that changes it will be posted here.
3.) Following questions, I've found an intro to userscripts for beginners at https://openuserjs.org/about/Userscript-Beginners-HOWTO. Remember, as this software is shared for free I don't have the resources to provide training or support, but that link might help newbies get going. People in the Discussion channel linked from the Telegram announcement channel might be able to provide some help, too.
4.) A new version with scads of new features is under heavy development and will be posted soon. Sooooooooon. Keep watching the skies.
An independently developed userscript bringing new UI features and embedded research tools to popular DEX- & DeFi-related websites, to give you an edge and help avoid scams.
Q1.) Can you just tell me how to install and/or use this, instead of me having to read this whole README and think and stuff?
A1.) No, sorry.
End of FAQ.
The website http://DEXTools.io started out as the most popular info explorer for Uniswap. However, I found that as I explored the information it gave me, I had to do far too much clicking around to other websites to do my own research on the coins listed. I wanted a quicker way to gather information and determine which coins might be worth investing in, and more importantly, which look like scams and should be avoided. So I took all the research I was doing by hand, and coded an add-on tool that set on top of DEXTools but gave quicker access to all that information, and in some cases, embedded it right in the page without having to leave DEXTools. Once it was written, it struck me that this was a good way to lend a hand to beginning traders and newbies, and I decided to make it available on Github for that purpose.
Since then, script development has begun to shift focus away from DEXTools to other popular sites. Which I believe are more in keeping with my original intent of helping the beginning traders who need this most and may not necessarily be in profit yet... traders very much like I was, literally only weeks ago.
As of 1 September 2020, going forward, this script has been rebranded from "DextAssistant" to "DYORassistant" ("Do Your Own Reasearch" Assistant) to reflect a broader emphasis on helping fledgling DEX traders research new tokens, rather than just focusing exclusively on enhancing DEXTools. For the next month, I will be shifting focus to helping new traders by providing information and enhancements on sites that do not charge the subscription fees that DEXTools will be instituting by the end of September.
The transition will be gradual. But I hope to shift focus before too long completely away from DEXTools, to whatever tools show the most promising combination of usefulness, accessibility, and value to beginning or intermediate traders in the months to come. DEXTools is an amazing service run by a great team, and likely to only get better as it develops; however, I cannot justify volunteering time and development skills for free to support what now looks like an exclusive service aimed at catering to traders who are already succesfully enough to be able to afford to pay quite a lot of money for the tools they need. I think it's terrific that DEXTools is offering an awesome toolset to those traders, I just don't see any reason to support that myself.
At the same time, I plan on concurrently transitioning away from using DEXTools in my own trading. But I'll make an effort to support the existing DEXTools-related features, and even continue to add new ones that were already in the planning stages, for as long as possible.
UPDATE, September 20 2020: Following major under-the-hood changes to DEXTools's UI that are too difficult to be worth dealing with, some of the script functionality no longer works on that site. The above notes will be updated shortly. The next major revision of this script will bring full functionality to other sites.
Despite my efforts to give it an easy-to-understand GUI, this is an advanced tool for technically advanced traders.
If you are trading on Uniswap or other DEXs, you need to have a certain level of general knowledge in order to avoid the high risks, and I'm not going to enable anyone to jump in and lose money. If there's anything in this you don't understand, then you probably shouldn't be trading on Uniswap yet, so this tool is not for you.
What's more, as this is under active development, you may find bugs, though I try hard to avoid that.
As I'm sharing this for free, I won't give you any support or any guarantees, and if you choose to use it I don't owe you anything for any reason. It's presented as-is, use it only at your own risk. What you see is what you get. If you have questions you'll have to do your own research and figure out the answers yourself. I'm grouchy, don't bother me.
This is an independent project that bubbled up out of a single developer's need, provided gratis for anyone who might be able to make use of it. It's not affiliated with DEXTools.io or its development team, (or any other website or development team) in any way. Please never bother them with questions about it.
Essentially, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN with this.
Do you think Indiana Jones needed someone holding his hand? No, never. When you're fighting for your life in a remote jungle or far-flung desert outpost, there's no support, no instruction manual, no second chances... just your own ingenuity, will to live, and the rich rewards that will come if you can figure out on your own how to succeed.
As of right now, that is your life.
(Metaphorically speaking.)
Enjoy!
This script requires a browser plugin that allows you to install and manage user scripts, such as Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey, or Violentmonkey. I chose to go with a userscript instead of a browser plugin because it would allow the code to remain 100% open source and cross-platform.
(Here's where you need to bring a little knowledge to the table. If you're unfamiliar with userscripts or Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey, Violentmonkey, etc, you should educate yourself from a page like https://simply-how.com/enhance-and-fine-tune-any-web-page-the-complete-user-scripts-guide before you try to use this. BTW I use Tampermonkey https://www.tampermonkey.net/ myself, on Firefox, Brave, and Chrome, so I know for sure that this script works with that. But you'll need to decide for yourself which userscript manager is right for you. Consult your doctor.)
BONUS! For users that already have a userscript manager extension installed in their browser, you can install DextAssistant simply by clicking this link: https://github.com/ApopheniaPays/dextassistant/raw/master/dextAssistant.user.js.
This script is also hosted at https://openuserjs.org/scripts/ApopheniaPays/DextAssistant for one-click install if you prefer to get a minified version. Supposedly that will stay current as I update it here, but I haven't checked.
Global enhancements (currently works on DEXTools.io, Astrotools.io, Trendering.com, Etherscan.io, and Unitradebeta.com):
1.) In any table that has a header row, columns are now sortable.
2.) Ethereum addresses in table columns (indicated by links to Etherscan.io address pages) can be filtered to show only the rows for that address.
3.) Any links to Etherscan.io now also have a button added to look that address up on Zerion. Ethereum addresses are color coded to make repeated transactions from the same address more noticeable in tables.
NOTE: as of 2020 sep 20, not all features listed below may work on DEXTools.io anymore, due to radical under-the-hood changes to how DEXTools displays information. Most basic functionality has been restored, but not all. This is the last version of this script that any features are guaranteed to work on DEXTools.
DEXTools.io enhancements:
1.) The most prominent addition is a new icon under the Pool Explorer's Actions column, which opens a "research assistant" popup that will allow you to view data from other websites pertaining to the token Name, Contract Address, and Uniswap.info Pair Address for the token on that row. Next to the Contract addresses you will see a little circled arrow that will show you Google search results for those contract addresses, embedded right in the popup, when you hover your mouse over it.
2.) For tokens with a particularly low DEXT score or which are auto-generated by a lazy website token-generator script, the distinguished monocle and handlebar mustache on the "research assistant" gear button are replaced with a "poop" emoji.
3.) Rows in the the Pool Explorer are color-coded to indicate liquidity adds, removes, and new pools. 100% liquidity removals are now labeled as "rugpull" instead of just "remove", to make sure you know to feel extra-bitter.
6.) DEXTools "Dark mode" is now supported, because I was too lazy to attempt any real work tonight.
7.) Rather than rely on the various browser plugins' hinky auto-update mechanism, the script adds an unobtrusive "update available" link to the footer of the screen after a new version has been pushed to this repo, for convenient one-click upgrading. (Some extremely nerdy people will notice the script phones home to github on page load. This update check is why.)
As this script makes cosmetic changes only, there's no harm you can do by poking around. Explore it.
Ok, if you need to be told how to use this, you probably aren't ready to be doing this kind of trading. But here's my basic routine for checking out a token and deciding if it's real or a scam: Check an see any the existing search results for the contract address, check if liquidity is locked, look at the pair explorer and see if there is website/telegram/ discord referenced and look at those to get an impression. Takes no time at all.
Oh, yeah, and, be extra skeptical if the liquidity pool is less than 1000 ETH. I've seen real coins with pools as small as 20 ETH, but I've never (yet) seen a scam with a pool over 1000 ETH.
1.) Right now the list filtering and sorting only acts on existing rows. As new transactions or pools appear, they come in at the top, exactly as if the list wasn't filtered or sorted. I'll get around to it. Hey, it's an open source script, you don't like it, fix it yourself.
In keeping with this tool's mission of helping beginning and small traders get a leg up, in an upcoming version this userscript may begin asking for read-only permission to connect to your wallet (exactly as all dApps currently do.) If you hold enough wealth to qualify for the premium-level subscriptions to some popular websites, such as holding 20k DEXT for DEXTools 2nd-tier subscription or holding enough TRND to qualify for Trendering's exclusive 300-member telegram, you may be prevented from further use of this script. If you wish to avoid these restrictions you may wish not to upgrade the script.
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