Data-driven research, guides, and insights for leaders building the infrastructure and intelligence to bring institutions on chain, by the data plumbers at Allium.
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KTH researchers benchmarked blockchain data platforms against a self-hosted node and found Allium the most accurate, then used it for their entire Ethereum dependency study.
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A Carnegie Mellon doctoral dissertation credits Allium as a critical data resource for its blockchain research.
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Carnegie Mellon researchers used Allium's blockchain data to study game-theoretic liquidity provisioning across Uniswap v3 pools.
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Researchers from TU Munich and Flashbots used Allium's transaction-level data across nine chains to map cross-chain arbitrage, a growing frontier of MEV in DeFi.
Press & News
Bloomberg's Crypto newsletter cited Allium as the data source for onchain trading volume in SpaceX pre-IPO perpetuals.
Henri Stern, CEO & Co-Founder, on building wallet infrastructure, real-time streaming, and the data layer for agentic payments Privy builds the agentic wallet layer for the internet. Developers embed self-custody wallets directly into their products through Privy's API — no browser extension or seed phrase required.
Guides
💡What is MCP? Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that allows AI systems to directly interact with external tools (and blockchain data) through structured workflows. Key takeaways: * Institutions still depend on manual workflows and siloed teams to navigate blockchain analysis * MCP brings conversational language into blockchain data analytics
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The most common way people rank Kalshi against Polymarket is by trading volume, and that comparison points the wrong way. Polymarket usually posts the larger headline volume, but Kalshi holds more open interest, meaning more money is actually committed to unresolved positions at any given moment. The two platforms differ
Product
💡What is Allium Terminal? Allium Terminal is an onchain analytics platform that helps users understand blockchain adoption, stablecoin activity, payments, tokenized assets, prediction markets, and other onchain activity. It combines blockchain data, attribution, segmentations, and analytics into a single interface, allowing users to move from raw onchain activity to actionable
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💡Someone stole a Humanity key, used it to grab 298 million H tokens (some newly made, some from the project's own wallet), and sold them for about $27 million in eight hours. Most of the money is still sitting in their wallets. A step-by-step look at
Guides
Key takeaways: * Blockchain data analytics used to require highly-specialized knowledge to navigate * MCP now changes complex data retrieval into natural conversation * SQL isn’t replaced by MCP, but MCP gives AI agents the ability to use SQL, APIs and other tools * MCP lowers the barrier to entry for all
Product
💡What Is Allium MCP? Allium MCP is a standardized interface that allows AI agents to interact with blockchain data. In practice, this means that builders can create applications that analyze wallets, monitor DeFi positions, track stablecoin flows, and anything else they require with blockchain data. Most teams don't