Introduction Stablecoins are now the settlement layer of crypto, moving trillions of dollars across exchanges, wallets, and payment networks each year. For institutional analysts, accountants, and regulators, tracking these flows is essential: they reveal liquidity trends, counterparty risk, systemic vulnerabilities, and potential compliance red flags. But raw blockchain data is
March brought another month of shipping new products and optimizing existing ones. Our team deployed support for six additional blockchain networks (including Hyperliquid), shipped Token Prices & NFT APIs, and more. These updates reflect our commitment to delivering the industry’s fastest, highest-quality blockchain data infrastructure. Read on for the
Crosschain analysis shows Lazarus leveraged DeFi protocols to launder funds Bybit, the world’s second-largest exchange by trading volume, recently suffered the largest crypto hack in history. On February 21, 2025, North Korea’s Lazarus Group stole $1.46 billion in Ethereum tokens from Bybit and immediately began laundering the
TradFi has decided: DeFi is inevitable. Announcing "TradFi Tomorrow: DeFi and the Rise of Extensible Finance" with Paradigm. Read the full report here. Our key findings: 1) Engagement Two-thirds of TradFi organizations are already engaging with decentralized finance, including industry giants like @Visa, @FTI_US, @BlackRock, @jpmorgan. 2)
Allium Product Updates - February 2025 February brought another month of rapid expansion at Allium. Our team deployed support for ten additional blockchain networks, enhanced our API with more expansive endpoints, and more. These updates reflect our commitment to delivering the industry’s fastest, highest-quality blockchain data infrastructure. Here'
This blog post was originally written by Confluent. You can find the original post on their blogspot at the following link: https://www.confluent.io/blog/blockchain-integration/ Blockchains enable individuals and organizations to record and verify transactions as part of a secure, transparent, and decentralized system. They form the basis
At the end of 2023, leading venture capital firm Electrical Capital published the following report on digital asset activity - contributing the new momentum 2024 would go on to bring to the crypto space. Allium worked as a data partner to help facilitate the discovery and analysis of these insights.
Our analysis reveals that over 90% of the largest liquidity providers don't maintain their dominant positions for more than a month. We suspect that this is due to the reallocation of liquidity among different positions and swaps. This rapid turnover shows a dynamic market in which liquidity providers
Tracking high gas-consuming contracts with Allium: a Developer's Guide Gas consumption is a key metric in distributed ledger ecosystems, directly influencing transaction costs and network performance. For developers, investors, and analysts working with distributed ledger technologies, monitoring gas usage is important for optimizing smart contract performance and predicting
It has been a long and fun journey since 2021 and we’re excited to announce we have raised $21.5M total after our $16.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures, with participation from our lead seed investors Kleiner Perkins and Amplify Partners. Blockchain data is hard, messy, and
Originally written by Cuy Sheffield at Visa. Link. There’s a line chart that has made the rounds on social media under the headline “stable[coin]s are catching up to established settlement networks.” It purports to show the volume that some of the world’s major settlement networks process