How to Use Blockchain (On-Chain Data) Analytics

Institutional investors need transparency and actionable insights. Blockchain data can help firms make confident decisions, manage risk, and gain a competitive edge. Trading institutions may have many different digital wallets. Individuals within the organization can use these wallet addresses and the blockchains they trade on for various tasks, including assessing portfolio risk and performing tax accounting.

However, the complexity of data means that organizations need effective infrastructure to gain visibility into network fundamentals, account balances, transactions, and other details.

Gaining Insights Into Market Trends

Once collected and processed, blockchain data can uncover market trends in several ways:

• Overall activity: The number and size of transactions can help gauge overall activity and interest in a particular cryptocurrency or digital asset. 
• Whale movements: High-net-worth individuals or organizations that hold large amounts of crypto are called whales. On-chain data analytics makes it easier to identify large movements in whale wallets and react accordingly. 
• Wallet behavior: Tracing wallet activity, token holdings, and decentralized finance (DeFi) participation helps determine user behavior and overall market sentiment. 

On-chain data displays how assets are moving and showcases the adoption and performance of various DeFi protocols. It can also deliver insight into how assets move across blockchains for detailed views of trends in cross-chain activity.

Identifying Emerging Opportunities

Besides providing vital insights into market trends, blockchain analytics can help inform decision-making, allowing teams to identify segment shifts by comparing historical data to emerging trends. Crypto on-chain analysis helps maximize profit possibilities and reduce the risks associated with trading. 

It may help you discover new projects and tokens just starting to gain traction before the project and protocol become widely known. Similarly, it can spot trends in user engagement, traction, and token velocity, which can help identify opportunities in DeFi.

Another way blockchain analytics helps identify new opportunities is through portfolio monitoring, tracking net worth and token movements within wallets in real time to unlock portfolio concentration and diversification opportunities.

Analyzing transaction flows can also show how funds move within the blockchain, giving insights into user behavior and key players. Transaction flows can illuminate the dynamics of different protocols and pools, enabling early identification of potential investment opportunities.

Assessing the Health of Blockchain Networks

The health of the blockchain network informs decision-making regarding everything from which network to use for executing transactions to discovering a competitive edge. Monitoring the health of these networks begins with tracking key metrics like:

• Addresses: Metrics like the number of known addresses associated with a network can help set user involvement benchmarks. 
• Transaction histories: Healthy networks typically have a consistent flow of transactions, indicating active usage and demand. Spikes or drops in transaction volume can signal significant events or potential issues.
• NVT ratio: The Network Value to Transaction (NVT) ratio divides a network's market capitalization by the USD value of on-chain transaction volume, providing a price-to-fundamentals signal similar to the traditional stock market's Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio. This value can evaluate the sustainability of a token's price and the overall economic health of a DeFi protocol. 
• Hash rate: This metric tracks the total computational power currently being used to mine blocks on the network. A higher hash rate typically indicates greater network security and resilience against attacks.
• Exchange flows: The inflow and outflow of cryptocurrencies to and from exchanges can help traders and analysts gauge overall market sentiment. For example, a sustained net inflow of coins to exchanges often precedes a sell-off because holders move assets where they can readily trade them, potentially signaling an upcoming price drop.
• Stablecoin transfers, mints, and burns: Stablecoins are essential to the stability and liquidity of the blockchain ecosystem. Monitoring transfers, mints, and burns helps check for market instability or shifts in investor confidence. 
• Smart contract activity: This metric helps assess the level of innovation and development occurring in a blockchain network. Higher levels of activity suggest a thriving ecosystem and the potential to attract more users and investors to the network.
• Gas fees: Networks with low, stable gas fees indicate a potential for growth and scalability within a blockchain network.

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