Arkham review

Attribution without the paywall

Arkham maps addresses to entities across major chains and gives away far more of it than its competitors, including entity dashboards and alerting. For anyone who wants to follow a company's or a fund's on-chain footprint without a desk budget, this is the accessible option.

Confidence is the missing column

Attributions are proprietary and their confidence is not consistently surfaced next to them, which matters because users routinely quote these labels as fact. An address the platform believes belongs to an exchange and an address it has confirmed look much the same in the interface, and the difference is the whole story when the conclusion is published.

The ethics people argue about

The bounty model around de-anonymising addresses is contested, and reasonable people in this industry disagree about it. It does not affect data quality; it does affect whether some users are willing to fund the product.

What it is genuinely good at

Following an entity's footprint across chains in one view — treasury movements, exchange deposits, the shape of a fund's position — without stitching together block explorers by hand.

How to read a label

As a lead, not a citation. Verify against on-chain evidence before publishing anything that depends on the attribution being right, because the platform does not consistently show you how confident it is.