Introduction

Allium is an enterprise-grade blockchain data platform providing accurate, fast, and seamless access across over 40 blockchains. Its services are divided into two categories: Allium Developer, which enables engineers to create real-time blockchain applications, and Allium Explorer, which accelerates data exploration through a user-friendly query interface. Allium supports a wide range of application scenarios, including accounting, auditing, stablecoins, staking, NFTs, and DEX trading. The platform focuses on delivering high-quality, secure, and scalable data solutions to meet enterprise needs.

Funding Background

Funding Background

Allium has completed two rounds of financing. The first round occurred on July 15, 2022, raising $4.25 million, led by Kleiner Perkins and Amplify Partners. The second round was completed on July 18, 2024, securing $16.5 million in Series A funding led by Theory Ventures. Tomasz Tunguz, the founder of Theory Ventures, will join the board of directors. Kleiner Perkins and Amplify Partners also participated in this round. Allium Labs stated that it has raised $21.5 million to date and plans to invest in data infrastructure and its listing strategy to provide services enabling financial institutions to adopt digital assets.

Founding Team

Founding Team

Allium’s core founding team members are Ethan Chan, Cheng Han Lee, and William Lai. Before the Allium project, the three team members had little prior experience with blockchain and came from traditional financial institutions and internet giants. Ethan previously worked at Microsoft, Cheng Han Lee was at Meta, and William Lai worked at J.P. Morgan. The lack of a strong “crypto” background is considered beneficial for the project itself, as it suggests that team members are more likely to focus on project development rather than being influenced by crypto’s speculative appeal.

Main Features

Allium Explorer (For General Users)

Allium Explorer Interface

The Allium Explorer web application is a one-stop destination for all blockchain data needs. It allows users to query and visualize blockchain data from over 40 blockchains and share insights through interactive charts. Its main features include:

• Query Runner
  The Query Runner is the core engine of Allium Explorer, enabling users to seamlessly query all blockchain data provided by Allium on a single platform. Key advantages include:

  • Multi-chain Support: Write SQL queries spanning all blockchains supported by Allium on a unified platform.
  • Unified Data Schema: Simplify query writing with an abstract data model that spans different blockchains.
  • Parameterized Queries: Create dynamic, reusable SQL statements using user-defined parameters.
  • SQL Formatter: Format code into clean, readable SQL, enhancing collaboration and maintainability.

• AI Assistant

Explorer API

The Explorer API offers analysts and data scientists a programmatic way to access data from Allium applications in bulk. With this API, users can perform actions such as creating new query runs, retrieving the latest query run information, checking query run status, retrieving results, and canceling query runs.

• Explorer API
  The Explorer API offers analysts and data scientists a programmatic way to access data from Allium applications in bulk. With this API, users can perform actions such as creating new query runs, retrieving the latest query run information, checking query run status, retrieving results, and canceling query runs.

• Data Upload
  Users can upload their data to Allium to support custom analyses. The data ingestion process in Allium Explorer includes:

1. Navigate to the ingestion page by selecting the “Ingestion” section from the main menu.
2. Select the dataset, specify the desired table name, and upload files from the local system in CSV format.
3. Upload the file and make the dataset available for analysis within the Explorer.
4. Query uploaded data, which will appear under the “Uploaded Tables” tab.

• Data Visualization

Data Visualization

Users can create and share data visualizations using the built-in visualization tools. After running a query, users can switch to the “Charts” tab below the query editor to access the visualization tools. Users can create and share visualizations with just a few clicks by selecting chart types from a dropdown menu. Sharing options include sharing the chart, its results, and the underlying SQL code via a button in the “Chart Settings” sidebar.

Allium Developer (For Developers)

Allium Developer Interface

Allium Developer provides engineers with fast query speeds (50-100 ms) and fresh data (3-4 seconds). Features include:

• SQL Interface
  The Developer SQL API is a robust tool that allows developers to query blockchain data using SQL. It offers flexibility and customization for accessing blockchain data and is built on top of Allium Developer’s API.

• Static API
  The Static Developer API allows users to retrieve raw data, including blocks, transactions, logs, traces, and tokens.

Historical Data

Allium provides extensive historical data support across various categories:

• Blockchains
  Allium supports major blockchains, including EVM chains, Cosmos, MOVE-based chains, Solana, and Bitcoin. These blockchain datasets and schemas are accessible via the Allium Explorer UI.

• Wallets
  Allium offers over 100 attributes for individual wallets, including:

Wallet Fund Tracking

Wallet Fund Tracking: Trace fund flows for transactions, active days, and wallet addresses (CEX-specific).
Asset Holdings: View USD balances, assets held, and stablecoin and fiat balances.
DEX Interactions: Analyze wallet interactions with DEX projects and trading volumes in USD.
NFT Market Interactions: Review total and average USD amounts traded, NFT collections, and marketplace activities.
Acquired NFTs and Blue-Chip Holdings: Track minted, acquired, and traded NFTs, as well as blue-chip NFT collections held.

• On-Chain Metrics
  Allium’s on-chain metrics save time and resources by precomputing critical data points like daily active addresses, transaction volumes, and gas usage.

• Stablecoins
  Allium enables users to investigate on-chain stablecoin activity across multiple blockchains, supporting currencies beyond USD (e.g., CNY, JPY, TRY, EUR, CAD).

• Cross-Chain Bridges
  Track asset flows across major blockchain networks. Supported chains include Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BSC, Ethereum, Fantom, Optimism, Polygon, and more.

• Decentralized Exchanges (DEX)
  Query DEX trading volumes across multiple blockchains in a single query.

• NFTs
  Access comprehensive data on NFT transactions, holdings, trading flows, and more across major blockchains.

• Token Transfers
  Track native and equivalent tokens (e.g., ERC-20, BEP-20, TRC-20) on EVM chains and SOL/SPL tokens on Solana.

• Token Prices
  Allium provides detailed datasets for token prices, which are suitable for various blockchain analysis use cases. Price models include hourly token prices from both DEX and centralized exchanges.

• Identity
  Enhance analyses with wallet labels and names.

• DeFiLlama Integration
  As the largest TVL aggregator for DeFi, DeFiLlama data models allow users to query aggregated DeFi data across multiple chains and protocols, including:

• Revenue and Fees: Historical and daily breakdown of fees and revenue across protocols.
• Total Value Locked (TVL): Historical summaries of TVL by token quantity and value across chains and protocols.
• Trading Volume: Historical and daily breakdown of DEX trading volumes across chains and protocols.

Conclusion

The number of blockchain data providers is growing rapidly. Unlike data analysis platforms like Nansen and Arkhem, which focus on delivering pre-analyzed insights, Allium primarily provides raw data, effectively aggregating data from multiple blockchains. This approach offers high data scalability, making it an excellent choice for professional data analysts and developers who prefer to use their own frameworks to process raw data.