# Chainalysis

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chainalysis/  
**Website:** https://www.chainalysis.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 12

Chainalysis is a blockchain analysis company providing data, software, and research to government agencies, exchanges, banks, and crypto businesses for compliance, investigation, and risk management. Core products include KYT (real-time transaction monitoring), Address Screening, the publicly hosted Sanctions API, Reactor (investigations and fund tracing), Crypto Investigations, Wallet Scan, Rapid (AI-assisted triage), VASP Risking, and Sentinel (stablecoin risk). Security-side products include Hexagate (web3 threat prevention) and Alterya (fraud prevention). Most APIs are REST-based and gated behind enterprise contracts, except the free public Sanctions Screening API.

## Kin Score — 18.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (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 | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (12)

- **Chainalysis Sanctions Screening API** — Free public REST API that returns whether a given crypto address is identified as sanctioned by OFAC or other major sanctions authorities. No commercial licence required; widely...
- **Chainalysis KYT API** — Enterprise REST API for real-time anti-money-laundering monitoring of crypto transactions - register deposits, withdrawals, and transfers, and receive risk scoring, alerts, and ...
- **Chainalysis Address Screening API** — Enterprise REST API for assessing a wallet's risk exposure - returns categorised exposure (e.g. darknet markets, sanctions, scams) and a risk score for a given address. Used to ...
- **Chainalysis Entities API** — Enterprise REST API exposing Chainalysis's labelled-entity dataset - look up the entity behind a given address (exchange, mixer, sanctioned actor, scam, etc.) and retrieve entit...
- **Chainalysis Reactor** — Investigation product for tracing funds across blockchains - graph explorer, address clustering, and case management used by law enforcement, government, and private investigato...
- **Chainalysis Crypto Investigations** — Managed investigation service where Chainalysis analysts conduct or assist with crypto-related investigations on behalf of customers, including expert testimony, asset recovery ...
- **Chainalysis Rapid** — AI-powered triage product for instant assessment of crypto addresses and transactions - surfaces key risk and entity context to speed up investigations and compliance reviews.
- **Chainalysis Wallet Scan** — Tool for scanning recovered seed phrases against the blockchain to identify wallets holding seizable cryptocurrency, used in law-enforcement asset-seizure workflows.
- **Chainalysis VASP Risking** — Risk-profile product for Virtual Asset Service Providers - assesses exchanges and other VASPs against AML, sanctions, and counterparty risk criteria for use in correspondent and...
- **Chainalysis Sentinel** — Stablecoin-focused risk product that evaluates the risk profile of individual stablecoins, their issuers, and circulation patterns.
- **Hexagate (Chainalysis)** — Web3 security product (acquired by Chainalysis) that monitors smart contracts and on-chain activity in real time to detect and prevent exploits, governance attacks, and protocol...
- **Alterya (Chainalysis)** — AI-powered fraud prevention product (acquired by Chainalysis) that identifies scams and fraud-victim relationships to help exchanges and payment platforms intervene before funds...

## Security (1)

- **Chainalysis Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Chainalysis Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Compliance, AML, KYT, Sanctions, Investigations, Blockchain Analytics, Risk, Crypto

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