Arkham Intelligence: who does this wallet address really belong to?

The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency investments carry a high degree of risk. Always conduct your own research.The analytics platform attaches names to blockchain addresses and has been paying bounties for unmasking wallets since July 2023. What comes out of it, where the assignment goes wrong, and how you keep your own trail shorter.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 ...