Building ChainAnalyzer

May 25, 2026W15 INSIDER_TRADE_SUSPECT — crypto insider-trading detection without storing any PIIOn 2026-05-25, ChainAnalyzer released W15 INSIDER_TRADE_SUSPECT — a new wallet-level detector designed for Japanese VASPs (cryptoasset exchange operators) and electronic payment instrument operators to flag insider-trading suspicion without storing any PII.🎯 In one lineYou never have to share employee names or IDs with ChainAnalyzer. Tag the wallet with company_affiliation and the in-scope token c...

May 24, 2026Bridge Flow Trace: tracing NEAR Intents (and 6 other privacy bridges) in one request2026-05-24 — ChainAnalyzer is launching Bridge Flow Trace, a one-request multi-hop cross-chain forensic tracer. It auto-detects bridge solvers (NEAR Intents, Wormhole, Stargate, Across, Synapse, Hop, deBridge), follows relay chains, and emits forensic insights including same-intent correlation with sub-minute cross-chain settlement timing.🎯 The one-line pitchPrivacy bridges like NEAR Intents are n...

Apr 28, 2026Building an MCP server that AI agents pay for autonomously (Claude → MCP → x402 USDC)The default model for MCP servers is "expose your tools, trust the caller." That's fine for personal Claude Desktop tools that hit local SQLite, but it doesn't work for paid data — the moment your tool calls a real upstream API, somebody has to pay for the upstream. We took a third path: instead of static API keys baked into the MCP config, our MCP tools speak x402, and Claude (or any MCP-aware ag...

Apr 28, 20269 blockchains, $0 in extra API costs — beating the competition on coverageOn 2026-04-28, ChainAnalyzer expanded from 5 chains to 9. The new additions are BNB Smart Chain, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism — pulling us ahead of the closest competitor (ChainAware at 8 chains) without paying a cent more in API costs. The trick: Etherscan V2's unified chainid routing, plus a small refactor that put every chain's config behind a single registry.Highlights9-chain coverage: Bitcoin, Ethereum,...

Apr 28, 2026Shipping a $0.008-per-call AML API on Coinbase x402 BazaarOn 2026-04-28, ChainAnalyzer cleared its first production mainnet settlement on Coinbase x402 Bazaar. An AI agent autonomously paid $0.008 USDC on Base, and in under 30 seconds got back a CRITICAL risk verdict with 64 detections on a Tornado Cash address — 76+ rules, ML anomaly scoring, Neo4j graph traversal. No account, no API key, fully settled on-chain.HighlightsFull x402 v2 spec compliance — verify + settle both running...

Three milestones in five days: awesome-mcp-servers merge, Glama AAA, and x402 USDC mainnet on Base + Solana. A field report on shipping for AI agents.

Two months ago we exposed a $5.3M cross-chain address poisoning network. We came back. The network is bigger now — 854 new operator wallets, $16.8M USDT processed by the ETH collector, and the laundering trail leads to a CEX compliance gap.

Every product has an origin story. Mine starts with getting drained on a Sunday afternoon in a Discord I trusted. From a $7.95 SOL loss to a $5.3M cross-chain investigation — this is how ChainAnalyzer was born.