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 applications run on blockchain technology, but they are really built on data. Every wallet balance, trade, liquidation, NFT mint and protocol interaction ultimately depends on how the raw blockchain execution is captured and interpreted. We call that system crypto data infrastructure. Crypto data infrastructure is the system that transforms
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A practical guide to onchain data reconciliation for accounting, covering data sources, reconciliation tasks, system architecture, audit readiness and build vs buy decisions.
Crypto transaction monitoring is the continuous analysis of onchain activity to detect risk, fraud and possible compliance issues — and it operationally differs from traditional financial transaction monitoring. Blockchains are public, immutable ledgers that allow you to see every transaction, but there’s a big difference between seeing how pseudonymous transactions
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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.
Onchain analyst Kofi Kufuor (@0xKofi) on building production-grade analytics at Base and Bundlebear Base is one of the fastest-growing L2s in crypto. Incubated by Coinbase, it serves as the onchain rails for products used by millions—from Base Chain itself to the new Base app. Behind those products is a
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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.
Contributors: Soon Guan Tan (Data Analyst, Allium), Soo Hyung Choe (Data Analyst, Allium), Jackie Zhang (Head of Data Science, Uniswap Foundation) Summary When a user swaps on Ethereum, the transaction often passes through multiple intermediaries (wallets, meta-aggregators, solvers, aggregators) before reaching liquidity pools. Each layer serves a purpose, but the
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