Arkham Intelligence is an analytics platform that assigns names to blockchain addresses. Enter an address there and you see not only balances and transactions but often a label as well: an exchange, a fund, a project, sometimes an individual. That is exactly what sets the platform apart from an ordinary block explorer, and exactly what makes it useful and uncomfortable for investors at the same time.
Useful, because before a transfer you can look up where an address belongs, and because after a theft the route of the loot can be followed. Uncomfortable, because the same technique points at your own wallet. An assignment is always a claim by the platform and never proof of ownership. This article sets out what the analysis achieves, where its limits lie, and which habits keep your own trail shorter.
Arkham Intelligence explained: the blockchain analysis behind the entity pages
Arkham Intelligence was founded in January 2020 in San Francisco by Miguel Morel. Its early backers include the venture capitalist Tim Draper, the Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and the OpenAI chief Sam Altman. The company describes its product as a tool for analysing blockchain and crypto activity, and says it uses machine learni...
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