Nansen vs RedStone

Nansen

Nansen is the industry-leading on-chain analytics platform that enriches blockchain data with millions of wallet labels, enabling traders and investors to track smart money flows across Hyperliquid and 40+ blockchains. By identifying wallets belonging to exchanges, funds, whales, and DeFi protocols, Nansen transforms raw on-chain data into actionable intelligence. On Hyperliquid, Nansen tracks large perp position changes, wallet inflows and outflows to the L1, and the trading behavior of labeled professional accounts. Its Token God Mode feature provides a 360-degree view of any Hyperliquid spot token's holder distribution, trading volume, and liquidity depth. Nansen's alerting system notifies users when smart money wallets make significant moves in Hyperliquid markets, giving a critical edge in fast-moving crypto environments. The platform's AI-enhanced research tools help investors quickly synthesize on-chain signals into investment theses across the Hyperliquid ecosystem.

RedStone

RedStone is a modular blockchain oracle network that has become the dominant oracle solution on Hyperliquid, operating under the HyperStone brand for the ecosystem. Oracles are critical infrastructure — they provide smart contracts with real-world price feeds, enabling DeFi lending, derivatives, and synthetic assets to function correctly. RedStone's architecture is uniquely well-suited to Hyperliquid's high-performance environment: rather than pushing price updates to the chain on every tick (a costly approach), RedStone uses a pull-based model where data is fetched on-demand and cryptographically verified on-chain, dramatically reducing costs while maintaining freshness and accuracy. Securing approximately 99.5% of oracle-protected value on Hyperliquid, HyperStone feeds power a wide range of DeFi protocols on HyperEVM — from lending markets to perpetual protocols and yield vaults. RedStone aggregates price data from dozens of sources, applying outlier filtering and cryptographic attestation to ensure data integrity. With support for hundreds of assets and sub-second update latency, HyperStone gives Hyperliquid's DeFi ecosystem enterprise-grade price feeds, enabling complex financial products to be built with confidence in the underlying data infrastructure.

Choose Nansen if you...

• ✓Want a analytics & data solution on Multi-Layer
• ✓Need: Blockchain analytics platform tracking smart money flows on Hyperliquid

Choose RedStone if you...

• ✓Want a oracles solution on Multi-Layer
• ✓Prefer a verified and vetted protocol
• ✓Need features like oracle and HyperStone
• ✓Need: Oracle powering ~99.5% of oracle-protected value on HyperEVM