Blockchain explorers have made significant advances in recent years, and their capabilities have expanded even further with the increase in artificial intelligence (AI). Below we explore two major Blockchain Explorers that incorporate AI designed to convert transactional data into human-readable formats.
From forensics to fast facts: how AI transforms blockchain exploration
Generation AI has revolutionized many domains, from visual generation and prose refinement to streamlining website design. Today, the technology is permeating the blockchain sector, with two explorer platforms embedding AI into interface designs. The first platform is Arkham Intelligence, a blockchain analytics tool that democratizes access to complex blockchain data across networks such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron, Avalanche, Base, arbitrum, polygons, optimism, and more.
Arkham employs AI-driven methodologies such as transaction analysis and entity identification, analyzing both on-chain and external data to link wallet addresses to real entities. Consider the most recent transfers performed in Binance. Arkham’s AI has identified that transactions require a specific address to receive 0.3065368295589717 BNB via the binance of WBNB tokens.
Source: Arkham Intelligence
AI analysis also provides a breakdown of related addresses. Especially for blockchain detectives, research is dramatically accelerated by the ability to quickly identify real-world entities, integrate on-chain and off-chain data, and follow funding across the network. Reduces time spent analyzing Block Explorer line-by-lines, allowing for faster insights. Next is the Block Chair, a multi-chain explorer and analysis tool that is compatible with 48 different blockchains.
Source: Block Chair
BlockHeair also integrates AI assistants. “Hello, I’m your AI assistant. How can you help today? It looks like you’re looking at a transaction. Ask anything about it!” Looking at this particular BTC transaction, when I first moved BTC on May 22, 2017, the dormant Bitcoin address created on May 22, 2017, block height of 895,197, and 94.729 BTC in nearly eight years, Cuborg tells me everything about it.
Cuborg said:
As AILED Explorer matures, deciphering cryptographic ledgers no longer requires forensic patience. Anyone can ask conversational questions and get a superficially plausible lead within seconds. That shift resets expectations for transparency across all networks, forcing exchanges, protocols and even governments to assume flows are readable immediately. The resulting information parity could nourish healthier markets and accelerate mainstream engagement in the coming years.
However, granular transparency brings a paradox. The same conversational dashboard empowers honest observers and allows opportunistic enemies to equally arm them. As attribute models become sharper, users may be drawn to privacy coins, mixers, zero-knowledge schemes, or whole new protocols to protect their movement. The right to privacy and tools to enhance obfuscation are fundamental human rights. However, transparency burned into the most major blockchains turns that principle into a double-edged sword, and the pursuit of accountability often comes at the expense of discretion.
