x402 Explained: The Internet-Native Payments Standard for APIs, Data and Agent Commerce
Discover how x402 enables AI agents and APIs to make per-request stablecoin payments instantly, removing human intervention and scaling programmatic workflows.
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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
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
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.
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
Blockchain Data APIs: A Complete Guide
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
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
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 strategic
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.
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.
Mapping the Flow of DEX Swap Execution: Allium’s Orderflow Explorer
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.
Understanding Stablecoin Activity: Dashboard for Settlement Asset Ecosystem Transparency
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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7 Reliable Solana Data Providers for Engineering Teams in 2025
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,
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Top Blockchain Intelligence Platforms for Risk, Compliance, and Public Sector Teams in 2025
Cross-chain crime hit $20 billion+ in 2024. DPRK hackers stole $1.5 billion from Bybit in a single exploit. Ransomware groups and sanctions evaders exploit gaps between new chain launches and tool coverage. This guide compares Allium, Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, and Inca Digital based on what matters for investigations
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Top Blockchain Data Platforms for Accounting and Finance Teams in 2025
Compare Allium, Cryptio, Bitwave, TRES Finance, and Lukka for crypto accounting and audit. We break down SOC certification, chain coverage, ERP integration, and what matters for closing books and passing audits.
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Top Blockchain Data Platforms for Investment Research Teams in 2025
Choose Allium if: You need verified, audit-ready data that keeps pace with a rapidly evolving market. You want coverage of new chains in days, automatic handling of protocol changes, and institutional-grade verification—all delivered to fit your existing workflow.
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Top Cross-Chain Analytics Tools for Web3 Ecosystem Teams in 2025
A practical guide to cross-chain analytics for Web3 ecosystem teams. Compare Allium, Dune, Flipside, Ormi, and SonarX on data accuracy, chain coverage, delivery options, and total cost of ownership
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New on Allium: Monad historical and real-time data; ecosystem dashboard
Monad mainnet launched November 24. Allium now provides historical and real-time Monad data—chain metrics, DEX activity, stablecoin flows, and airdrop analytics. As an ecosystem partner since testnet, we've been indexing Monad for months. Explore the public dashboard at monad.allium.so.
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The Stablecoin Issuer's Guide to Onchain Intelligence: What to Track and Why
The stablecoin market has exploded to over 400 issued tokens with more than $300 billion in total market cap. Despite all this activity, only a handful of stablecoins have achieved meaningful adoption. The top two—USDT and USDC—continue to dominate market share while hundreds of newer entrants struggle to
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RPC vs APIs vs Data Infrastructure: What Engineering Teams Actually Need to Build Onchain
Technical guide comparing RPC nodes, API providers, and data infrastructure for blockchain data. Learn what production systems actually require with real examples from wallet and trading applications.
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Building Real-Time Blockchain Data with APIs and Datastreams
Blockchain data pipelines often fail at scale. Learn how APIs, Datastreams, and continuous verification make real-time blockchain data reliable, fast, and scalable.
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Best On-Chain Stablecoin Analytics Tools and Dashboards
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 noisy.
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The Missing Layer in AI Payments: Why Stablecoin-Powered Agentic Commerce Needs Better Data
AI agents are beginning to transact autonomously — paying for compute, APIs, and services in real time. Some use stablecoins or blockchain rails; others connect to existing payment networks or bank APIs. Whatever the settlement method, a new class of agentic payments is emerging — and it exposes a critical gap: the
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Blockchain’s Plumbing Problem: Why Enterprises Need a New Onchain Data Stack
Why blockchain data is so hard to use, and why enterprises now need an operating system for onchain data