Behind Every Transaction, an Untold Story
Tags: blockchain
Published: 2023-12-27 03:42:39

<img src="https://statichk.footprint.network/article/574612e8-b8d4-4513-a34f-a8e45ff10a45.jpeg"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Author : </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">shelly@footprint.network</span>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Blockchains never sleep, with ledgers updating every second across decentralized architectures. But volume metrics alone conceal why users behave and capital flows.</span>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Are investors just trading frenzied speculation? Or is methodical conviction accumulating in long-term stakes? Has a protocol fork fragmented its community? Or revealed latent demand in a niche segment?</span>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Interpreting activities requires analyzing the collective behavior of addresses along threads of transaction sequences and interconnections. This exposes coherence reflecting strategy, competition, specialization, and partnership.</span>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Blockchains bear witness to crypto economic stories - of risks taken, and empires built, fortunes won and lost. Those who can best decipher the narrative gained from tracking granular money flows will write the next chapters.</span>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">A recent Chainalysis report reveals that over 80% of on-chain activity relates to dapps and smart contracts - not trading transactions. This reflects extensive cryptoeconomic workflows across DeFi, NFTs, governance, metaverses, supply chains, storage networks, etc.</span>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">But abstract protocol volumes can mask nuances. Which users are driving activities? Have capital rotations indicated shifts in narrative traction? Are specific contract integrations picking up steam?</span>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Answering these requires peering into the pulse of blockchain itself - the money flows between addresses, buyers, and sellers across chains and sectors.</span>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">This is exactly what Footprint Analytics unlocks. As a multi-chain data indexing platform, Footprint structures granular on-chain data for versatile exploration and custom analysis.</span>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Here are some of its key capabilities:</span>

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<ol><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Categorizing Money Flows for Context</span><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Footprint classifies various transaction types, tagging activities across trading, swapping, staking, governance votes, NFT mints/sales, and more. This elucidates the context around every flow.</span></li></ul></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Flexible Analysis Lenses</span><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Assess money flows across numerous angles: specific tokens, address clusters, entire protocols, or market sectors like DeFi, NFTs, or bridges. Zoom into microscope views or aggregate bird's eye perspectives.</span></li></ul></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Custom Algorithm Development</span><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Built customized rating systems and machine learning models for clustering and classification and performed multi-table analysis with various datasets available on Footprint. Tailor money flow analytics to your needs.</span></li></ul></li></ol>


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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">These capabilities enable a diverse range of crypto market applications:</span>

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<ol><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Market Intelligence</span><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Understand overall ecosystem migrations and changing developer/user preferences by analyzing cross-protocol and cross-chain money flows.</span></li></ul></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Business Operations</span><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Inform tokenomic designs and gauge product engagement by studying user activity and retention patterns.</span></li></ul></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Risk Management</span><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Detect abnormal activities and fraudulent schemes by setting alerts on suspicious money flows like circular trading, pump & dumps, etc.</span></li></ul></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Competitor Benchmarking</span><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">Identify relative protocol traction based on activity metrics like TVL composition, pool diversification, locked token analysis, and aggregated user profiles.</span></li></ul></li></ol>


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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1c1917;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;" data-raw-html="span">In summary, blockchain's evolution into a decentralized infrastructure shows most activity occurring at the application layer. And being able to parse these crypto-economic flows unlocks invaluable and actionable business insights.</span>

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