Inside Nansen's AI Trading Agent Platform
From Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies by Epicenter Media Ltd.
March 30, 2026 · 56 min · Episode 639
About this episode
The episode explores Nansen's transition to AI-driven trading with CEO Alex Svanevik discussing technical challenges and future predictions.
In this episode, host Friederike Ernst is joined by Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen, to explore the platform's radical pivot from passive on-chain analytics to active, AI-driven agentic trading. Alex unpacks the technical hurdles of labeling over 500 million addresses, the transition from raw data into harmonized insights, and why true alpha now lies in attribution rather than raw data . He explains how Nansen uses ClickHouse databases and a mix of algorithmic heuristics, agentic teams, and human specialists to maintain the highest industry precision. The conversation dives deep into the intersection of LLMs and blockchain, exploring how standard AI models lack domain-specific common sense and why Nansen augments them with real-time data and visual "artifacts". Alex introduces "Nansen Gym," a simulated historical replay environment for training trading agents and teases the upcoming release of "Smart Money 2.0", which aims to predict future profitable addresses with 2-3x uplift on precision. Finally, they discuss the existential risks of AI, the striking parallels between open-source AI and early DeFi, and why Alex believes agentic trading will be the…
People in this episode
Host: Friederike Ernst
Guest: Alex Svanevik
Topics covered
- AI trading
- blockchain
- data analytics
- Nansen platform
- trading agents
- machine learning
- financial technology
Keywords
- Nansen
- AI trading
- blockchain analytics
- ClickHouse
- trading agents
- data harmonization
- Smart Money 2.0
- user privacy
- agentic trading
- LLMs
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Nansen, ClickHouse
Products: Nansen Gym, Smart Money 2.0
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