Investigate blockchain data analytics providers

[LukSteib]

Goal

Get an understanding on provided resources of different blockchain data analytics providers

Context

In our conversation with the data insights CU, two providers for blockchain data were mentioned:

• Token Flow
• Nansen

With this issue we want to investigate wether these providers a) provision the data we need for our vault related metrics b) potential limitations c) required resources to make use of these kind of services

Tasks

• [ ] Investigate the two services on the criteria mentioned above and document in this issue

[KirillDogadin-std]

Basic overview without deeper dive:

• Token Flow
  • does not seem to be a complete product. Their page just seems like a teaser for the future product that is not functional at the moment.
  • they promise an infrastructure that consists out of 3 tools
  • only one of the teased tools is available according to their webpage and the same tool is on their github repository.
  • Just from the above points i question the need in the deeper dive because there's literally nothing that hints towards a final / working version.
• Nansen
  • Their page is a product advertisment
  • We're intending to use the api
  • No mentioning / referencing the api capabilites in their webpage, also this was not found in google.
  • All the nansen guides are short and are referring to how one uses their service
  • api is only available for enterprise clients and one has to contact them directly for this purpose.

With the above listed i question if i should proceed in my efforts to find more information on how these services work. As of now it seems to me that most of their information is intentionally concealed in order to force more contact from potential clients.