How to track your entire DeFi portfolio from your Mac menu bar
If your assets live on four chains, in two lending protocols and a couple of liquidity pools, "checking your portfolio" usually means ten browser tabs and a spreadsheet. Here's how to collapse all of it into a single glance from your Mac menu bar — without ever connecting your wallet.
The short answer: use a read-only aggregator that reads public on-chain data for each wallet address you own, and surfaces it somewhere you already look. That's exactly what Bankirr does from the macOS menu bar — but the approach matters more than the tool, so let's walk through it.
Why one place beats ten tabs
Every chain and protocol has its own explorer and app. Etherscan for Ethereum balances, Arbiscan and Basescan for L2s, the Aave dashboard for lending health, Uniswap for pool positions, and so on. Each is accurate in isolation and useless as a whole — because your real question isn't "what's my Aave position", it's "am I up or down today, everywhere, net?"
Answering that manually is slow enough that most people simply stop checking — which is the worst state to be in when a position's health factor drifts toward liquidation. Consolidation isn't a nicety; it's what makes the number checkable often enough to act on.
If seeing your total net worth takes more than one action, you will check it too rarely to catch problems early. Design for the glance.
Track without connecting your wallet
The instinct is to "connect wallet" everywhere. You almost never need to. Tracking is a read operation, and reads only require your public address — the same string that's already visible on-chain to everyone.
- No signature, no seed phrase, no keys. A tracker that asks for any of these to display balances is doing too much.
- Add by ENS or address. Paste vitalik.eth or a raw 0x… address and the tool resolves the rest.
- Watch wallets you don't own. Because it's read-only, you can also track a treasury, a fund, or a friend's public address.
This is what "non-custodial by default" means in practice: the software literally cannot move your funds because it never holds the ability to.
Read-only is not a limitation — it's the feature. The safest tool is the one that couldn't drain you even if it were compromised.
What actually belongs on the glance
Aggregation is easy to overdo. The panel you check twenty times a day should hold the few numbers that change your decisions, and push everything else one tap deeper:
- Net worth, all chains. One figure, updated live, across every EVM chain you track.
- Daily change. Absolute and percentage — the "up or down today" answer.
- Lending health. Aave and Spark positions with health factors, so liquidation risk is never a surprise.
- Pool + yield. Uniswap positions and blended APY, so idle vs. earning is obvious at a glance.
Why the menu bar (and the notch)
A dashboard you have to open is a dashboard you forget. The menu bar is the one surface always in view while you work, which makes it the right home for a number you want to stay honest about. On MacBooks with a notch, Bankirr expands into a Dynamic-Island-style panel beside the notch — tap for the full breakdown, collapse it back to a single figure in the menu bar.
See it in your own menu bar
Download the signed DMG, add a wallet, done. Free demo hour included.