Data-driven research, guides, and insights for leaders building the infrastructure and intelligence to bring institutions on chain, by the data plumbers at Allium.
Blockchain data infrastructure is increasingly used by institutions, not just crypto native teams. Banks, fintech companies, trading firms and compliance platforms now rely on onchain data to power production systems, risk monitoring, analytics and payment infrastructure. As this shift occurs, the expectations placed on blockchain data providers are changing. Institutional
As blockchain networks evolve into financial infrastructure, access to reliable, normalized onchain data becomes essential. For ecosystems targeting institutional adoption, the ability to measure activity, track capital flows, and identify key participants is critical to operating and competing at scale. Aptos, a production-grade Layer 1 built for performance and security,
Large language models are not inherently ill-suited for onchain use cases — in fact, there are many crypto products out there that have been majority built with LLMs. However, problems start to emerge when LLMs are only given access to work with onchain data at the blockchain level. Rather than any
The stablecoin market is no longer a companion to the crypto market, it’s a major player moving significant amounts of money. According to Allium’s recent stablecoin report, total circulating supply of the stablecoin market reached $266.3 billion as of February 2026. That’s more than the GDP
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.
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
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