Data-driven research, guides, and insights for leaders building the infrastructure and intelligence to bring institutions on chain, by the data plumbers at Allium.
Crypto builders rarely set out to learn accounting mechanics. But as soon as you try to ship analytics, financial reporting, risk monitoring, or compliance tooling, you run into a familiar problem: data that doesn’t reconcile. Balances don’t match transaction histories, aggregates drift over time, reorgs silently corrupt mechanics.
ERC-8004 is a standard that aims to solve the problem — how can different AI agents trust each other? As more apps are being built entirely without human intervention, AI agents are able to do almost everything needed to execute successfully: ideate, create, purchase, and build. However, while a human is
Discover how x402 enables AI agents and APIs to make per-request stablecoin payments instantly, removing human intervention and scaling programmatic workflows.
Guides
A practical guide to onchain data reconciliation for accounting, covering data sources, reconciliation tasks, system architecture, audit readiness and build vs buy decisions.
Guides
Blockchain networks generate enormous amounts of raw, onchain data — every transaction, smart contract interaction, and balance update is recorded on the public ledger. But accessing this data in an understandable way is not as simple as just scrolling through a spreadsheet until you find what you need. All blockchains run
Andrew Duca on handling crypto taxes for Solana LPs, Bitcoin Runes, and the long tail of onchain activity Crypto tax software faces a structural coverage challenge. Products built between 2017 and 2021 optimized for a specific market structure: centralized exchange trading, simple token swaps, and established protocols with stable transaction
A joint perspective from Uniswap Labs and Allium on the infrastructure enabling institutional DeFi adoption The institutional conversation around trading onchain has shifted from "if" to "how" over the past 18-24 months. What was once viewed as experimental infrastructure for retail traders now represents a strategic
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Hacken released their 2025 Yearly Security Report this week, analyzing over $4 billion in Web3 losses across the year. Allium's cross-chain analysis contributed to understanding how DPRK threat actors laundered stolen funds.
How Kofi Kufuor built Bundlebear into the go-to ERC-4337 dashboard, then brought the same data infrastructure to Base's analytics team.
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The Orderflow Explorer, built by Allium through a Uniswap Foundation grant, maps the complete path of every DEX swap across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Unichain. This post covers what the Orderflow Explorer does, how we built the underlying schema, and how we validated it.
How Allium built infrastructure for real-time visibility into activities of stablecoins, showcased at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025 The Market Intelligence Challenge As stablecoins have grown to over US$300 billion in market cap, public sector entities working to understand digital asset markets face a fundamental challenge: how do you
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Why Solana Data Is Uniquely Challenging Before evaluating providers, it's worth understanding why Solana data infrastructure is fundamentally harder than other chains—and why getting it right matters so much. Volume and scale that dwarfs other networks. Solana's network generates approximately 1TB of new data daily,