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Nansen Smart Money — Identify On-Chain Alpha Before the Crowd

Nansen labels millions of wallets to show you exactly what institutional investors, hedge funds, and whales are doing on-chain in real-time.

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Official website: nansen.ai

What is Nansen?

Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that enriches on-chain data with millions of wallet labels. It is the gold standard for tracking "Smart Money"—wallets belonging to highly profitable traders and entities.

By surfacing token flows and entity movements, Nansen helps investors cut through market noise and identify high-conviction trends as they happen on decentralized networks.

Smart Money Features

  • ✓Real-time tracking of 250M+ labeled wallets and entities
  • ✓Smart Money token flow dashboards for discovery
  • ✓NFT analytics to track rare mints and diamond-hand collectors
  • ✓Deep entity profiling to understand fund and whale behavior
  • ✓Custom alerts for specific wallet movements or token inflows

Important Warnings

✕Smart Money can be wrong; blindly following wallets is risky
✕Whales often use multiple wallets to obfuscate their true intent
✕Does not cover every chain; primarily focused on Ethereum and major L2s
✕Professional features come with a significant monthly subscription cost

Best Suited For

Alpha Seekers

Investors looking for early-stage on-chain trends and token accumulations.

Institutional Analysts

Professionals monitoring competitor or market leader wallet movements.

NFT Collectors

Traders tracking rare collections and 'smart' NFT minting activity.

How to Track Smart Money

1

Navigate to the 'Smart Money' token flow dashboard

2

Filter by timeframe (e.g., last 24h or 7 days)

3

Identify tokens with significant Smart Money net inflows

4

Drill down into specific wallets to see their historical PnL

5

Cross-reference on-chain data with market news before acting

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