The Workshop - Blockchain Analytics Platform

Blockchain analytics for crypto transaction screening is technically complex and commercially critical. Get it wrong and clients face regulatory exposure or financial loss.

When I joined, the platform was early-stage: functional, but with significant gaps in coverage, accuracy, and integration with the rest of the product suite. The work over three years was to close those gaps while the product and the team grew around it.

I grew into this product over three years. I started as a product owner embedded with the engineering team, managing the backlog, running Agile ceremonies and handling stakeholders for a team of 12 engineers based in several countries. Over time my scope moved from delivery to roadmap strategy, and from working alongside a team to managing other product owners.

My first major piece of work was a risk management tool to cut double-spend transactions, where the same funds are used to pay twice. It went on to handle more than 1,000 transactions a day and saved over $50k.

I then managed the transition of our source-of-funds analytics in-house. The tool traced where funds on the Bitcoin network had come from, using proprietary tracing algorithms, heuristic analysis and address clustering. It gave each transaction a risk score, so clients could screen payments faster and more safely.

After that I led the expansion beyond Bitcoin to Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens. This needed new approaches to address clustering and source-of-funds tracing, because the chains are built very differently.

Later, after the company was renamed Clavium, I connected the analytics platform to the treasury management product so that protective actions on risky transactions happen automatically. This cut the number of steps users had to take by 50%.

A risk management tool handling more than 1,000 transactions a day with over $50k in cost savings, source-of-funds screening run in-house, and coverage extended from Bitcoin to Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens.