Arkham: blockchain intel in Telegram

A large transfer just left an unknown wallet and you want to know who is behind it. The blockchain is open, but addresses look like random letters. Arkham turns them into readable labels: an exchange, a fund, a known market player. Now it works right inside Telegram. 🔍

The Arkham Mini App starts from the bot and can search by address, entity and transaction hash.

What you can look up

The project's announcement speaks of a database of 2.1 billion labelled addresses and 700 thousand entities. For its mobile apps the project later quoted bigger numbers, so the database keeps growing.

• Address: paste it and the app shows who owns it, if a label exists.
• Entity: an exchange, a fund, a company or a known trader with a profile and linked addresses.
• Transaction hash: see where the funds came from and where they went.

Search is started with /search, and /start opens the app itself.

Alerts on money movement

The second big section is alerts. You pick an address or an entity and get a message when a transaction happens. Conditions can be customized and edited.

1. Open the Mini App with /start.
2. Find an address or entity through search.
3. Create an alert and set conditions, such as a minimum amount.
4. Watch the messages in the chat and adjust the settings.

The project says Telegram alerts have run since 2023 and more than 200 million messages have been sent in that time.

Who benefits

People who follow the market and want to see big transfers before the news. Analysts who need to check a counterparty fast. Newcomers learning to read a blockchain.

The app is built Telegram-first, meaning for a phone screen, not as a trimmed copy of a website. The team behind the TON network also worked on the project.

Reading results without jumping to conclusions

A label on an address is an analyst's estimate, not a verdict. One person can own dozens of wallets, and an exchange owns thousands of addresses.

• A large transfer is not a buy signal. Money is often just moved between one's own wallets.
• A missing label proves nothing. The address may simply be unlabelled.
• Cross-check sources: a single tool does not see everything.
• Do not decide on trades from alerts alone.

Watch out for fakes

Popular crypto tools often get clones that ask you to connect a wallet or enter a seed phrase. A real analytics tool never needs one: search works with public data.

Launch the app only from the official bot listed on the project website, and never show anyone your private keys.

A simple real-life example

Say you notice a channel discussing a huge stablecoin transfer. Paste the sender's address into search and see whether it carries a label. If it is an exchange address, you are probably looking at ordinary reserve movement, not a signal of a coming drop or rally.

Then create an alert for that address to watch its activity without constant checking. That costs you minutes a week, not hours.