Event Logs
Smart Contracts emit event logs when certain predefined actions are completed.
Overview
Smart contracts emit event logs when certain predefined actions are completed. The emitted event logs are stored on the blockchain and are publicly accessible. Event logs are an important tool for smart contract developers to communicate with the outside world, as well as for data analysts to keep track of what happens inside of a smart contract.
For example, the ERC20 standard defines the Transfer event, which is emitted every time a token transfer occurs. The event log contains the sender, the recipient and the amount of tokens transferred.
event Transfer(address indexed from, address indexed to, uint256 value);
Decoded event logs always originate from the fields topic0, topic1, topic2, topic3 and data in the logs table.
Event Logs in Dune
In Dune, we store all event logs of decoded smart contracts in separate tables.
The structure published in these logs is predefined by the developer of the smart contract, the content is dynamically created during the transaction.
Logs are useful for monitoring, alerting and in general keeping track of what happens inside of a smart contract. Logs are your best friend as a data analyst since they reliably present you with data that is intended to be analyzed post factum. If you ever want to see which logs can be emitted by a smart contract, you can simply search for the keyword emit in the source code of the smart contract.
We will decode all event logs for smart contracts into tables named accordingly to this schema:
[projectname_blockchain].[contractName]_evt_[eventName]
Example
Let’s take the uniswap v3 factory as an example and look at the event that gets emitted upon the creation of a new pool. The event is called PoolCreated and gets emitted every time somebody successfully deploys a new Uniswap V3 pool by calling the function createPool. The event will readily give us information like the tokens in the pool, the fee tier of this pool and the tick spacing. In Etherscan, you can easily look at the event logs of transaction by opening the logs tab. In Dune, this particular event will be stored in the table:
uniswap_v3_ethereum.Factory_evt_PoolCreated
Multiple Instances
If there is multiple instances of a contract we will collect all event logs across all instances of this smart contract in one table. For example, all uniswap v3 pool swap events (on ethereum) are stored in the table: uniswap_v3_ethereum.Pair_evt_Swap
The column contract_address indicates as to which smart contract emitted this event.
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