Attribution with a source, or none at all.
Connecting an address to a real-world service is the single most consequential claim a blockchain intelligence platform makes. Every entity link here carries a source, an evidence reference and a confidence level — or it is not asserted.
What is entity intelligence in blockchain analysis?
Entity intelligence attributes blockchain addresses to real-world services and actors. ChainwatchCrypto records three fields for every attribution — what the entity is, where the claim came from, and how confident it is — or publishes no attribution at all. Labels age as services change infrastructure, so attributions are revisited rather than assumed permanent.
What an entity can be.
Exchange
A centralised trading venue with customer accounts and, usually, an identification programme.
DeFi protocol
A deployed contract system. The entity is the protocol, not its users.
Payment service
A processor or merchant acquirer settling in digital assets.
Custodian
A service holding assets on behalf of others.
Merchant
A business accepting digital assets for goods or services.
High-risk service
A service whose category carries elevated risk under the platform's published taxonomy.
Sanctioned entity
An entity matching a published designation. The list and its version are recorded on the match.
Unknown entity
A behavioural cluster with no attribution. Shown as unattributed, never guessed.
Three fields, or nothing.
This is the rule the platform enforces in its data model, not a statement of intent.
Source
Where the link came from: a published disclosure, a service's own documentation, an observed deposit-address assignment, a court filing, or an investigator's documented finding.
Evidence
The artefact a reviewer can open: a transaction reference, an archived page, an exported record. A source without a retrievable artefact is a rumour.
Confidence
High, medium or low, set against defined criteria — not adjectives chosen by whoever entered the record.
An entity label travels. It gets copied into a report, quoted to an exchange, cited in a filing, and repeated by a third party who never saw the underlying evidence. A guess entered here becomes somebody else's fact three steps later.
An entity link can be challenged. Disputes are recorded against the attribution itself, and a disputed link is shown as disputed everywhere it appears, including in reports already issued.
What each entity page holds.
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| Profile | Name, category, jurisdiction where published, and the platform's basis for the classification. |
| Associated addresses | Addresses attributed to this entity, each with its own source, evidence and confidence. |
| Blockchain activity | Observable aggregate activity across attributed addresses. |
| Risk indicators | Category risk plus any specific signals recorded against this entity. |
| Exposure | How exposure to this entity is treated in scoring, and at what hop distance. |
| Source references | Every source behind every attribution, retrievable. |
| Evidence | The artefacts themselves, versioned. |
| Investigation history | Cases in your organisation in which this entity has appeared. |