Glossary
The crypto data, intelligence and compliance vocabulary behind the API — explained without the jargon.
KYT (Know-Your-Transaction)
Know-Your-Transaction (KYT) is the practice of screening individual cryptocurrency transfers in real time to assess their risk, as opposed to KYC which verifies the identity of a customer.
AML (crypto)
Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) in crypto is the set of controls a business uses to detect, prevent and report attempts to launder illicit funds through blockchain transactions.
Travel Rule
The Travel Rule is an AML requirement (from FATF Recommendation 16) obliging Virtual Asset Service Providers to transmit originator and beneficiary information alongside crypto transfers above a set threshold.
Sanctions screening
Sanctions screening is the process of checking a crypto address or counterparty against government sanctions lists — such as OFAC SDN — to ensure a business does not transact with prohibited parties.
Address risk-score
An address risk-score is a numeric assessment of how likely a crypto address is associated with illicit activity, derived from its direct and indirect exposure to known risky entities.
Fund-flow tracing
Fund-flow tracing is the practice of following cryptocurrency value across multiple transactions and addresses (hops) to determine where funds originated or where they are heading.
Address clustering
Address clustering is the technique of grouping multiple blockchain addresses that are likely controlled by the same real-world entity, so analysis can be done per entity rather than per address.
Counterparty graph
A counterparty graph is a network representation of how blockchain addresses or entities transact with one another, with nodes for addresses/entities and edges for transfers.
Smart money
Smart money is a label for blockchain wallets with a demonstrated track record of profitable, early or informed on-chain activity, whose behaviour is treated as a signal.
Archive node
An archive node is a blockchain node that retains the complete historical state of the chain, allowing queries about account balances and contract storage at any past block height.
RPC node
An RPC node is a blockchain node that exposes a JSON-RPC API, letting applications query chain data and submit transactions without operating their own node infrastructure.
Decoded transaction
A decoded transaction is a blockchain transaction whose raw input data and event logs have been translated into structured, human-readable fields using the relevant contract ABI.
OHLCV
OHLCV stands for Open, High, Low, Close and Volume — the five values that define a price candle for an asset over a given time interval.
Mixer (tumbler)
A crypto mixer, or tumbler, is a service that pools and redistributes cryptocurrency from many users to obscure the link between the source and destination of funds.