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x402 Protocol Explained: AI Agent Payments Standard
x402 is an HTTP-native payment protocol that lets AI agents pay per request with stablecoins, no accounts or human approval needed. Here is how it works and what it is used for.
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Stablecoins: How Will They Impact Financial Centers?
Originally published by the Asian Financial Cooperation Association (AFCA Working Paper No. 2025-15/206), by Dr. Jochen Biedermann, Managing Director of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC). This working paper argues that stablecoins are a foundational component of the digital financial landscape rather than a passing fad,
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AI-Ready Onchain Data: Why Raw Blockchain Data Breaks Agents (and How Allium Fixes It)
As it becomes increasingly possible to use AI agents to create actual, working products, teams building for the crypto industry must find the right tools to give their agents enough reliable data. Because even though LLMs are incredibly advanced, they’re not actually able to parse and use raw blockchain
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The Definitive Guide to Crypto Data Infrastructure
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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Onchain Data Reconciliation for Accounting: Concepts, Methods, and System Design
A practical guide to onchain data reconciliation for accounting, covering data sources, reconciliation tasks, system architecture, audit readiness and build vs buy decisions.
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What Is Crypto Transaction Monitoring?
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 APIs: A Complete Guide (2026)
A practical guide to blockchain data APIs: what they are, how they work, and how to query transaction history, token balances, and ownership across many chains reliably at scale.
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How Awaken built crypto tax software for protocol-level complexity
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
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Onchain Execution: How Institutions Are Trading in DeFi Markets
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
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Tracing the Bybit Hack: Allium analysis featured in Hacken's 2025 Web3 security report
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.
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In the Shadow of Bank Runs: Lessons from the Silicon Valley Bank Failure and Its Impact on Stablecoins
Originally published by the Federal Reserve Board (FEDS Notes) on December 17, 2025, by Chuan Du, Ria Sonawane, and Cy Watsky. This Federal Reserve analysis uses granular blockchain data to trace how Silicon Valley Bank's March 2023 failure triggered a run on USDC and spread contagion through DeFi.
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Making Sense of Onchain Data at Base and Bundlebear
How Kofi Kufuor built Bundlebear into the go-to ERC-4337 dashboard, then brought the same data infrastructure to Base's analytics team.