# Alterya

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/alterya/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Alterya is an AI-powered fraud-prevention company founded in 2022 (Y Combinator; seed round led by Battery Ventures, ~$9.8M) that detects authorized-fraud scams — authorized push-payment (APP) scams, pig-butchering and romance scams, money-mule and synthetic accounts, and social-engineering-driven withdrawals — before victims send funds. It connects fraud signals across crypto rails and traditional fiat/bank rails, and prior to acquisition monitored more than $8B in transactions per month for exchanges and fintechs including Binance, Coinbase, and Block, protecting roughly 100M end users. Chainalysis acquired Alterya in January 2025 for a reported ~$150M; it now ships as the "Alterya by Chainalysis" fraud-prevention product. The standalone alterya.com domain is parked and the company operates entirely inside Chainalysis, with no independent public developer portal, API, or OpenAPI surface.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Fraud Prevention, Fraud Detection, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial-Services, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, Security

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/alterya/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.