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CryptoQuant is a Seoul, South Korea based blockchain data and analytics firm. It collects raw on-chain data from Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins and other major crypto assets, enriches it with exchange and entity labels, and turns the result into market facing metrics: exchange inflows and outflows, miner reserves and flows, wallet and long term holder activity, realized capitalization, and derivatives data such as open interest and funding rates. The data reaches users through a web platform with customizable charts and real time alerts, a community feed of analyst commentary called Quicktake, and a data API built for institutional and programmatic use. The firm specializes in exchange flow centric, entity labeled on-chain metrics rather than broad multi-chain wallet labeling. Its Coinbase Premium Index, which tracks the price gap between Coinbase and other exchanges as a proxy for US institutional Bitcoin demand, is among its most cited proprietary signals. According to the company's own materials, its client base spans retail traders on the consumer platform through to banks, proprietary trading firms, market makers, hedge funds, media organizations and web3 foundations, positioning it closer to an institutional market data vendor than to portfolio tracking or wallet attribution tools. CryptoQuant was founded in 2018 by Ki Young Ju, who remains chief executive. It raised about $3 million in August 2021 in a round led by Hashed with Galaxy Interactive, Mirae Asset Capital and Youbi Capital, followed by a $6.5 million Series A announced in July 2023 and led by South Korea's Atinum Investment with participation from SK, IMM Investment, Bass Investment and HillSpring Investment, taking disclosed funding to roughly $9 million. In July 2022 it became the first on-chain data provider listed on CME Group's CME DataMine marketplace, giving traditional institutions and hedge funds a route to buy its Bitcoin and Ethereum network and exchange flow data directly through CME's own platform. Its metrics are regularly cited by financial media including Bloomberg, Forbes and CNBC, and the company has said it supplied wallet tracing technology that supported a South Korean National Police Agency investigation into the 2020 Nth Room case.
