CryptoQuant

CryptoQuant is a blockchain data and analytics firm founded in April 2019 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The platform addresses a practical gap in crypto market analysis: blockchains record every transaction publicly, but translating that raw data into market intelligence requires collection infrastructure, entity labeling, and analytical tooling that most market participants cannot build independently. CryptoQuant packages that infrastructure into a subscription service used by banks, proprietary trading firms, market makers, hedge funds, media organizations, and Web3 foundations globally.

How It Works

CryptoQuant's core mechanism operates in three stages. First, the platform ingests raw transaction data directly from major blockchain networks and aggregates order flow and position data from cryptocurrency exchanges. Second, it enriches that raw data by mapping wallet addresses to known entities — exchanges, miners, whales, institutional custodians, and funds — using proprietary labeling. Third, the enriched data is processed into ready-to-use metrics delivered through charts, dashboards, alerts, a no-code analytics interface, an API, and a community research feed called Quicktake.

Data Categories and Key Metrics

CryptoQuant organizes its metric library into seven primary categories.

Exchange Flows track the movement of assets into and out of exchange-controlled wallets. Inflow, outflow, netflow, reserve, and fund-flow-ratio metrics help traders assess whether coins are accumulating in or draining from exchange custody — a proxy for selling pressure or buyer demand. Exchange-specific breakdowns allow comparison across individual platforms.

Miner Flows monitor the behavior of Bitcoin miners: outflows from miner wallets, transfers directed toward exchanges, the Miner Position Index, and supply ratios signal when miners are distributing block rewards versus holding.

UTxO-Based Indicators compute cost-basis-adjusted metrics from the unspent transaction output model, primarily for Bitcoin. These include Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR), Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL), Coin Days Destroyed (CDD), and realized price and capitalization figures that measure aggregate holder profitability at market turning points.

Market Data covers derivatives markets: open interest, estimated leverage ratios, funding rates, and taker buy/sell volumes gauge positioning, crowdedness, and sentiment in perpetual futures markets.

Network Indicators translate raw chain activity into macro valuation signals: the NVT ratio, Puell Multiple, and stock-to-flow analysis provide historical context for whether a network's valuation is extended relative to on-chain usage or supply dynamics.

Stablecoin Metrics track issuance, exchange flows, reserves, and supply ratios for major dollar-pegged tokens including USDT, USDC, DAI, USDP, TUSD, and SAI. Stablecoin exchange inflows are historically correlated with incoming buying demand.

Fund and Premium Data covers institutional wrappers and geographic arbitrage signals: Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and Ethereum Trust (ETHE) holdings and premiums, the Coinbase Premium Index, and the Korea Premium Index reflect institutional demand and regional arbitrage dynamics.

Product Access

CryptoQuant data is accessible through multiple delivery modes. The web platform provides pre-built and customizable charts alongside an alert system. The Quicktake community feed lets verified authors publish market analyses and research notes for subscribers. A no-code Web3 Analytics tool enables cohort analysis with pivot tables and custom visualizations without writing code. An AI chatbot assists with data exploration within the platform interface.

The API — available on Professional and Premium subscription tiers — covers Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, TRON, stablecoins, and ERC20 tokens across endpoint categories spanning exchange flows, miner flows, network indicators, market data, and mempool statistics. The platform also supports AI agent workflows through Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, allowing programmatic querying of platform metrics from external tooling.

Subscription tiers run from a free Basic plan to Advanced at $29 per month on annual billing, Professional at $99 per month annually with API access included, and Premium at $799 per year with expanded API limits and CSV export capabilities.

Solana Coverage

CryptoQuant maintains a dedicated Solana (SOL) asset page providing daily on-chain analytics, price and market statistics, derivatives data, DEX trade analytics, charts, and trending research articles. As Solana's network activity expanded through 2024 and into 2025 — driven by memecoin activity and rising DEX volume — on-chain monitoring for SOL became a meaningful part of CryptoQuant's altcoin coverage. Deep-metric API coverage for Solana comparable to Bitcoin's twelve-plus endpoint categories is not explicitly listed in CryptoQuant's API reference documentation, which describes BTC, ETH, XRP, TRX, stablecoins, and ERC20 tokens as the primary API asset classes.

Team and Background

CryptoQuant was co-founded by Ki Young Ju (CEO) and Soojin Lim (CPO), both alumni of Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. Ki Young Ju previously worked as a software engineer before founding Planet B, a blockchain research group, in 2018 — the immediate precursor to CryptoQuant's formal launch in April 2019. The company is headquartered in Seoul and operates internationally, with documentation available in English, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Persian, Chinese, and Vietnamese.

The company reached a significant institutional milestone in July 2022 when it became the first on-chain data provider listed on CME DataMine, the data marketplace of CME Group — the world's largest derivatives exchange — placing its datasets alongside traditional financial data products. South Korean media outlet Chosun Daily has described CryptoQuant as "the Bloomberg of Crypto."

The platform gained industry recognition through several high-profile research calls. Ki Young Ju publicly flagged the Luna Foundation Guard's transfer of approximately 37,000 bitcoins before the Terra-Luna collapse in May 2022. CryptoQuant also detected warning signals in FTX's exchange flow data months before that exchange's bankruptcy in November 2022. The firm additionally assisted South Korean law enforcement with blockchain forensics during the 2019 "Nth Room" investigation.

Security and Audit Status

CryptoQuant is a data analytics and intelligence platform rather than a smart contract protocol or custody service. No smart contract security audits are associated with the product. The platform's credibility framework rests on data methodology transparency, documented in its public user guide, and a track record of predictive accuracy established through its public research outputs. No specific third-party security certifications have been publicly disclosed.