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The blockchain analytics platform now pushes address intelligence changes to all API users within minutes, eliminating batch delays.
Arkham Intelligence just made its API significantly faster. The blockchain analytics firm announced that its API now delivers real-time address intelligence updates to all users, meaning new, altered, and updated intelligence data arrives within minutes rather than through the delayed batch processes that previously defined the experience.
The upgrade applies automatically to every existing API subscriber. No migration, no toggle, no extra fee. If you were already plugged in, you’re already getting the faster feed.
What actually changed #
The core of Arkham’s product is its Ultra AI-powered address-matching engine, which connects blockchain addresses to real-world entities. The engine has labeled billions of tags and tracked over $1 trillion in flows, according to the company.
Now those intelligence changes stream out in near real-time. It’s worth distinguishing this from Arkham’s existing WebSocket endpoint, which already supported real-time streaming of raw blockchain transfers. This upgrade specifically accelerates the intelligence and labeling layer, the part where raw on-chain data gets translated into actionable context about who is doing what.
A steady cadence of API improvements #
This isn’t a standalone announcement so much as the latest in a series of API expansions Arkham has rolled out over the past several months. The full Intel API launched on February 17, 2026, giving developers programmatic access to Arkham’s intelligence database for the first time at scale.
In June, Arkham integrated Risk Scores into the API as a subscription add-on. That feature assigns addresses a score from 0 to 100 based on their exposure to illicit activity.
Then in August, Arkham added x402 support for AI agents, allowing autonomous systems to interact with and pay for API queries.
Why low-latency intelligence matters now #
For compliance teams, regulators expect exchanges to screen transactions in near real-time. If a wallet is flagged as high-risk and that flag takes hours to propagate through your data pipeline, you’ve got a window where illicit funds could move through your platform undetected. Shrinking that window from hours to minutes is a meaningful reduction in regulatory risk. Arkham competes in a crowded blockchain analytics space alongside firms like Chainalysis, Elliptic, and TRM Labs. Chainalysis has long dominated the government and law enforcement segments. TRM Labs has carved out a niche with financial institutions. Arkham’s differentiator has been its consumer-facing platform and its open intelligence marketplace, which lets anyone contribute and access entity labels.
What to watch #
The automatic rollout to all existing subscribers removes a common friction point where upgrades require manual migration or tier changes. The Risk Scores feature is already a paid add-on, and future enhancements could follow the same model.
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