What an alert should say: what happened, and what to do next

Picture an alert that says only "Health factor alert." You read it on your phone, and the real work starts. Which loan? How low? What are you supposed to do, and where? By the time you've opened the lending app, found the position and worked out how much to repay, the alert has done very little for you.

We wanted every alert in Burokku to answer two questions on its own: what happened, and what to do about it. If you read nothing but the notification, you should still know whether to act and how.

Two questions, every time

Each alert carries the numbers that matter and the next step, in one or two short sentences. A few of them, as they read in the app:

• A perp near liquidation: which market, long or short, how far it is from liquidation, then the venue, the mark price and the liquidation price, and "Adding margin or reducing the position moves it further away."
• A risky approval: how many, then "Unlimited allowance to an unverified contract. The revoke is ready to sign."
• A wallet sending funds: which wallet sent how much, what the transfer was, and "Tap to see it in your activity."

None of them asks you to go and find out what it means. The clearest example is the one where minutes matter most.

The health factor alert, line by line

Say you borrowed against ETH on Aave and set an alert for when the loan's health factor falls below 1.5. When it does, Burokku sends something like this:

Health factor 1.42 on Aave v3 Below your 1.50 alert. Repaying a little or adding collateral moves you back to safety.

Every part is there for a reason:

• The number and the protocol in the title, so you know where and how far without opening anything.
• Your own line. It says it's below your alert, not a level we picked. A new health factor alert starts at 1.5, well above 1, where the loan can be liquidated, so you're told while there's still room to act. If the number itself is new to you, what a health factor is explains it.
• The two fixes. Repay part of the loan or add collateral. Both raise the health factor; the alert names them so you don't have to remember which way the maths goes at 3am.

It also knows when to stop. The alert fires once when a loan crosses your line, and isn't armed again until every loan is back at least 0.05 above it. You hear about the problem once, not every few minutes while you fix it.

From the alert to the fix

An alert that says what to do should also take you there. Tap the health factor alert and it opens your positions, where an Aave loan in a wallet you've connected has a Repay button, with the amount worked out to bring the health factor back to about 1.6 (as far as that wallet holds the borrowed token), and Add collateral beside it. You see the review first, with what the repay does to the loan, and your wallet signs it. Burokku doesn't.

The risky approval alert goes one step further when you ask it to: it gets the revoke ready, and tapping the alert opens it ready to sign. That link only opens the review for your own signed-in account, within 48 hours. Forwarded to someone else or pasted into a chat, it just fills in the form, so a link can never put a signing prompt in front of anyone.

A wallet you only watch by address can't sign from Burokku: its alerts still say what to do, and you act from the wallet itself. If you can't be there at all, the guide to avoiding liquidation on Aave and Morpho covers guards that repay or add collateral for you within limits you set.

Where it reaches you, and when

Every alert lands in Burokku itself, and each one can also go to Telegram, push on your phone or computer, and email. You choose the channels per alert. On each notice, Burokku records what happened on every channel: sent, held for later, or skipped and why ("Telegram not connected"), so a missing alert is never a mystery.

Night is when a missed alert hurts most, and also when you least want news that can wait until morning. So quiet hours are on by default, 23:00 to 07:30 in your time zone, and hold alerts until they end. Alerts about something falling (a health factor, a perp nearing liquidation, a price through your line, your net worth) get through anyway unless you change that. If you'd rather read everything in one go, alerts can wait for an hourly or daily digest instead.

You can deal with an alert where it reaches you, too. Telegram messages and push notifications have Snooze 1 day and Edit alert, Telegram can turn the alert off, and every email links to the alert itself.

Quiet checks while you're away

An alert is only as good as the checks behind it, and those can't depend on Burokku being open. Alerts that read your accounts are checked every five minutes in the background, and price alerts go off when a price crosses your line.

While you're away, Burokku checks your wallets every hour and reads one in full when a check finds it moved. Your plan sets how many: up to 8 on Pro and 20 on Max, starting with the ones worth the most. Alerts on your own money (health factor, net worth, sends, drawdowns) come with Pro and up; Free includes 5 price alerts. The plans set out the rest.

To get push on your phone, install Burokku from your browser. Then pick the loan you'd least like to be surprised by and give it a line. See every alert Burokku can send.