Noves

Noves is a blockchain data infrastructure platform that translates raw on-chain transactions into structured, human-readable formats across more than 120 blockchains. Rather than exposing developers and institutions to low-level event logs and cryptographic hashes, Noves acts as a semantic translation layer—answering the fundamental question "what did this transaction do?" in terms that accounting systems, compliance teams, and end-user applications can directly consume.

Founded in May 2021 by CEO Ben Roy and COO Juan Leandro Costa, Noves emerged from a straightforward observation: every team building on blockchain data was independently solving the same problem of decoding raw transactions into meaningful business events. The company set out to eliminate that duplicated effort by providing a shared, maintained translation layer available as an API.

How Noves Works

The platform's core product is its Translate API, which ingests any transaction hash across a supported chain and returns a classified transaction object containing three layers of information: a standardized transaction type drawn from a taxonomy of over 70 categories (such as "Add Liquidity," "Claim Rewards," or "Token Transfer"), a plain-English description of what occurred, and detailed asset transfer data with contextual labels identifying what each transfer represented—along with full asset metadata including contract address, name, symbol, and decimals.

This classification taxonomy covers DeFi, NFTs, gaming, staking, and other on-chain activity. By standardizing across chains and protocols, a developer can write a single integration and process transactions from Solana, Ethereum, Base, or any other supported chain without writing contract-specific parsing logic.

API Suite

Beyond the Translate API, Noves offers three additional API products.

The Foresight API provides pre-execution transaction insights in two modes: lightweight "describe" endpoints that generate plain-English summaries of unsigned transactions without full simulation, and simulate endpoints that run complete transaction simulations and return classified asset transfer predictions. This API powers wallet security use cases—Noves built a MetaMask Snap integration so users see a plain-language summary before signing any transaction.

The Pricing API is an on-chain pricing system that integrates data from multiple DEXes across supported chains to price fungible tokens, LP tokens, and other assets. It supports multiple pricing strategies suited to different contexts, including financial reporting and oracle applications. Unlike centralized price feeds, it sources pricing data directly from on-chain liquidity pools and covers long-tail tokens that major pricing feeds often miss.

The NodePlus API provides access to Noves' RPC node pool across all chains where Translate and Foresight are available, giving developers both raw blockchain data and fully-translated data through a single connection.

Deployment Models

Noves offers two deployment options targeting different customer profiles. Noves Cloud is the hosted API service spanning 120+ blockchains including Canton, requiring no node infrastructure setup from the customer. Noves Data App is a self-hosted, on-premises deployment designed for institutions that cannot send data to external services—the entire pipeline runs inside the customer's own security perimeter, a hard requirement for many regulated financial entities.

Solana Integration

Noves has specific support for the Solana Virtual Machine. Handling Solana's account model requires more complexity than EVM chains, because a user's full token activity is distributed across a main account and numerous associated token accounts, some of which may have been closed. Noves exposes a /splAccounts endpoint to enumerate active token accounts, /txs for per-account transaction retrieval with pagination, and a higher-level /txs/job endpoint that handles the full recursive discovery and de-duplication process automatically. This makes constructing a complete, reconciled transaction history for a Solana address a single API call rather than a multi-step engineering effort.

Use Cases and Integrations

The platform serves a wide range of builders and institutions: accounting and tax software needs categorized transactions with USD pricing at time of transaction; audit firms need audit-ready outputs with traceability to on-chain sources; wallets need pre-execution clarity for users; block explorers need transaction descriptions in plain English; and compliance teams need automated reconciliation across positions and flows.

Noves is available through the QuickNode marketplace as an add-on and has integrations with Chainstack, which delivers human-readable data through its node infrastructure. The Mint Layer-2 blockchain integrated Noves to make NFT transactions human-readable on-chain. Supra brought in Noves for data simplification while contributing oracle data in return. Noves was also accepted into the first cohort of the Consensys Fellowship Program and is listed in the Circle Alliance Partner Directory. Notable institutional clients include Canton Foundation, Fireblocks, and Modulo Finance.

Security and Compliance

Noves holds SOC 2 Type II certification, the standard operational security benchmark for SaaS platforms handling sensitive financial data. The architecture is designed around data accuracy, completeness, and traceability back to on-chain sources, with outputs structured to feed directly into audit-ready workflows.

Team

Ben Roy (CEO) and Juan Leandro Costa (COO) co-founded Noves in 2021. Costa has an Oxford academic background and is based in Uruguay. The company is incorporated in Las Vegas, Nevada. Both founders have spoken publicly about the core thesis: that raw blockchain data is the wrong abstraction layer for applications, and that shared translation infrastructure eliminates the redundant work every builder otherwise performs independently.

Tokens

Noves has not issued a native token. The platform operates as a B2B infrastructure service with API-based access and subscription pricing.

Ecosystem Position

Noves occupies the data infrastructure layer of the blockchain ecosystem—sometimes described as a "meta-layer" for its role in adding semantic meaning on top of raw chain data. As tokenized finance expands from crypto-native DeFi into institutional use cases involving private credit, OTC settlements, and regulated digital assets, the need for a reliable, auditable translation layer grows correspondingly. Noves is positioned to serve both the developer tooling market through marketplace listings and partner integrations, and the institutional compliance market through its on-premises deployment option and SOC 2 certification.