Multi-Chain Staking, Simplified: How Dynamic Enables Staking Across 500+ External Wallets on Nansen

About Nansen

Data is crypto’s most valuable currency. Whether you're an investor, builder, or researcher, staying ahead means having access to the right onchain insights at the right time. In this data-rich industry, Nansen stands out as the go-to analytics platform for anyone looking to deeply understand onchain activity.

For one, Nansen contains over 300+ million labeled wallets and integrations across Ethereum, Layer 2s, and emerging chains. And they take it beyond simply presenting raw data. Nansen transforms blockchain activity into clear and actionable insights used by investors, hedge funds, DAOs, DeFi protocols and more.

Nansen delivers wallet-level onchain intelligence that informs everything from token discovery to due diligence and defense for your portfolio. Here’s their current suite of products:

• Nansen Portfolio: A multi-chain crypto portfolio tracker for monitoring holdings, performance, and allocation across wallets.
• Token God Mode: Insights into any token’s distribution, liquidity, exchange flows, and smart money exposure.
• Nansen Profiler: A comprehensive search for analyzing address relationships and behaviors—tracking individual addresses, token interactions, or uncovering connections between entities.
• Smart Money Dashboard: A way for users to track the highest-performing wallets across crypto markets, showcasing real-time movements of top traders and insiders.
• Nansen Staking Hub: A portal for staking Proof-of-stake assets across a wide range of chains, in order to contribute to network security and earn staking rewards.
• Smart Alerts and Smart Segments: Instant alerts for tracking whale wallets, governance proposals, and token launches. Designed to keep users ahead of market-moving events.

The Challenge

Nansen has always focused on surfacing high-quality onchain data. But as the company expanded from analytics into staking, a new set of technical demands emerged. Alongside a growing user base, Nansen was also rapidly expanding support for multiple blockchains. This momentum introduced several new challenges for the team:

1. Scaling across multiple blockchains: With staking now live on an expanding set of Layer 1s and L2s, Nansen needed a wallet adapter capable of supporting a lot of chains—including niche chains on their roadmap. Just as importantly, the user experience needed to feel unified, no matter which network was being used.
2. Serving both power users and those newer to crypto. Nansen’s analytics platform attracts sophisticated traders and institutional users, but its staking product is also designed for a broader audience. That meant simplifying wallet interactions without compromising on flexibility or user control.
3. Avoiding the cost and complexity of building custom wallet infrastructure. Nansen’s core strength is data, not wallet UX. Rather than building and maintaining wallet infrastructure in-house, they needed a solution that was production-ready, battle-tested, and easy to integrate.
4. Maintaining high standards for security. Staking often involves high-value transactions and sensitive user interactions. Nansen needed infrastructure that would give users confidence that their wallets and funds were fully protected and non-custodial.
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‍The Solution

To power this next phase of their product, Nansen partnered with Dynamic to deliver secure wallet connectivity and multichain support. This partnership unlocked a range of key features for Nansen’s staking app:

1. Simple and unified multi-chain support: Dynamic’s Multi-Chain Adapter gave Nansen an instant path to supporting every EVM and SVM-compatible network, as well as many other chains. Nansen’s stakers can now connect over 500 external wallets across from their favorite chain without needing to switch tabs or tools.
2. Secure and easy to implement wallet infrastructure: Dynamic’s platform uses trusted execution environments, secure enclaves, and embedded fraud prevention to safeguard sensitive operations. And with a lightweight implementation process, Nansen’s team was able to integrate Dynamic in minutes, with no disruption to their existing workflows.
3. Developer tools for identity and access management: Beyond wallet connections, Dynamic also provided Nansen’s team with access to a powerful dashboard for managing user identity and access controls. This dashboard has made it easy for Nansen to fine-tune user flows, while also benefiting from actionable analytics.