THE 4 BIGGEST BLOCKCHAIN STRENGTHS ARE ALSO ITS WEAKNESS
- Permissionless nature leads to fragmentation of meaning
- Decentralization leads to too many standards https://xkcd.com/927/
- Immutability leads to exponential data + query infrastructure complexity
- Neutrality means that no one is accountable for interpretations
Blockchain data is public. It is not usable at institutional scale. Despite being open, blockchain data is fragmented, hard to interpret, and painful to maintain. Even a simple question like “Who are the largest Ethereum token holders over time?” can require running nodes, ingesting full chain history, decoding contracts, cleaning edge cases, and writing complex SQL.
BLOCKCHAINS ARE OPTIMIZED FOR WRITES, NOT READS.
They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial interpretation. Blockchains are computers, not databases https://x.com/Tim_Roughgarden/status/1512847113599729668. Every protocol defines its own schema. The same economic action can be encoded in dozens of different ways. The result:
- No accountability for interpretation
- Events without economic meaning
Finance cannot operate on that, it needs an effective system of record.
ALLIUM IS BUILDING THE SYSTEM OF RECORD FOR ONCHAIN FINANCE
Allium ingests, verifies, and standardizes data across 140+ blockchains and 30+ petabytes of history. We close four structural gaps that prevent blockchains from becoming systems of record:
- Semantic Gap: Translating raw events into financial concepts like payments, trades, deposits, and staking income
- Standardization Gap: Mapping thousands of protocols into a single canonical cross chain schema
- Infrastructure Gap: Read optimized, globally distributed data at web scale
- Accountability Gap: Auditable methodology, SLAs, and SOC 1 and 2 compliance
The result is a neutral, canonical data layer institutions can build on with confidence.
FINANCE IS MOVING ONCHAIN
Stablecoins, tokenized assets, trading, staking, and lending are growing rapidly. Institutions need a trusted source of truth for onchain financial activity, just as they rely on Bloomberg or DTCC in traditional markets. Raw blockchains cannot serve that role.
As AI agents begin transacting autonomously https://x.com/AlliumLabs/status/2019810793324482901?s=20, the requirement becomes even stricter. Agents cannot reason over raw event logs. They need structured data, attribution, condition checks, and auditability.
Allium is the read layer that makes onchain finance usable for humans and machines.
WHO WE SERVE
Allium powers three core personas with the same canonical data foundation:
- Finance, Accounting, and Risk TeamsThey need reliable, audit grade answers. They rely on Allium for financial reporting, reconciliation, compliance, risk monitoring, and defensible metrics that can stand up to auditors and regulators.
- Engineers and Product Teams They need low latency, production ready infrastructure. They use Allium to power wallets, trading systems, payment rails, staking infrastructure, and real time applications that cannot break.
- Strategy, Research, and Executive Teams They need clarity and insight. They use Allium to understand ecosystem economics, market structure, user behavior, competitive dynamics, and where capital is flowing onchain.
and of course.. agents 🦞. Our customers and users include Visa, Stripe, G-SIB Banks, Big 4 Accounting firms, BCG, Coinbase, Phantom, Uniswap and cited by the Federal Reserve.
THE ROLE
Allium is seeking a Research Analyst to transform blockchain data into actionable insights. You will work closely with our team of data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to develop, build, and maintain dashboards, reports, and content that drive strategic decision-making and conversations across the largest institutions & companies in the industry. Shape how the crypto community and institutions interpret on-chain activity, while learning from leading blockchain data engineers and analysts.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Develop blockchain analytics - Build, maintain, & optimize queries (SQL) and insights from massive multi-chain datasets
- Build research dashboards & reports - Design and maintain dashboards and visual reports that drive strategic decision-making
- Produce concise market updates and research - Analyze institutional trends (e.g. stablecoins, tokenized assets, onchain finance), protocol mechanics, market structure, and major crypto events.
- Shape the narrative for the industry - Write compelling data-driven content (blogs, social media posts, research reports) to build Allium’s brand and your personal brand to become an authoritative voice to the largest industry players
- Cross-functional scaling - Collaborate with sales, marketing, and product/engineering to distribute insights, provide product feedback, and highlight Allium’s data stack
ABOUT YOU
- Crypto-native - You deeply understand crypto concepts and are always tracking emerging trends
- Strong proficiency in SQL and data - Able to write complex queries (joins, grouping, CTEs, window functions) and optimize for performance / UX
- Natural data storyteller - You use the numbers to build a compelling narrative vs. having numbers for their own sake. You turn complex data into clear, shareable insights. You have an opinionated view backed by data, and tie back to why people should care
- You are an owner - You are proactive, responsible and adaptable. You take pride in your work and take responsibility for your decisions, and also respect others with theirs. You have excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and meet deadlines all while operating in a highly ambiguous and fast-changing environment. You want to build your personal brand and are confident staking your reputation on the quality of your work
- You are a doer - You get stuff done, and move with unusual urgency, take pride in continual improvement, and iteratively integrate feedback.
- You have high integrity - You uphold the highest standards of discretion and integrity. You'll be entrusted with a range of confidential information, from customer information to company financial details.
- Institutional background / understanding is a major plus
MORE SPECIFIC PAST WORK ALLIUM HAS DONE:
- Visa's stablecoin dashboard: https://visaonchainanalytics.com/
- Visa x Allium stablecoin lending whitepaper: https://corporate.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/corporate/solutions/documents/stablecoins-beyond-payments-onchain-lending-opportunity.pdf
- Diving deep into the guts of Ordinals data to power research like this: https://x.com/0xren_cf/status/1813606266553446596
- Sybil Detection (https://www.allium.so/post/from-eligibility-to-sybil-detection-a-deep-dive-into-wormholes-multichain-airdrop)
- Powering Brevan Howard Digital's stablecoin industry reports https://mirror.xyz/0x63F8A82711ECA999D5Cf588d5b7afE4DB673C7ED/ekt7LwxhuqZ4t1q5CN1oOHR3nlQGglMpaCB3ZBu2B3Y
- Designing the most intuitive DEX schemas for ALL DeFi researchers to use easily (https://www.allium.so/post/announcing-v3-polars-the-dex-analytics-portal-sponsored-by-the-uniswap-foundation)
- Ensure Grayscale's State of Ethereum Report had the right staking and fees data: (https://www.grayscale.com/research/reports/the-state-of-ethereum) https://www.grayscale.com/research/reports/the-state-of-ethereum
- Design chain level metrics (Fees, Activity..) for all chains: (https://docs.allium.so/historical-data/chain-metrics)
- Hunt down and curate wallet entities and labels (https://docs.allium.so/historical-data/identity)
- Account abstraction - Ensure we have all the right decoded logs https://docs.allium.so/historical-data/supported-blockchains/evm/ethereum/decoded/decoded-logs to power https://www.bundlebear.com/overview/all
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