View a Wallet’s Exposure with impersonator.xyz

Core idea

Tools like impersonator.xyz let you view a wallet’s own perspective on-chain, what tokens, approvals, and signatures it has been exposed to from someone else’s vantage point. This surfaces information hidden in the normal explorer view.

Components

• Reveals stale approvals waiting to be drained.
• Reveals signed but unbroadcast transactions.
• Surfaces other latent risk indicators from the wallet’s own viewpoint.

When to use

Both to pre-empt drains (spotting live risk before it is exploited) and to reconstruct what a victim was actually exposed to during an investigation.

Example

Viewing a compromised wallet through impersonator.xyz shows a stale unlimited approval and a signed-but-unbroadcast transaction that the normal explorer view hides, explaining the pending drain vector and guiding remediation.

Related

ERC-20 Approvals: The Forgotten Attack Surface, OSINT-to-On-Chain Pivots: Five Shapes