Amberdata: eight problems the world’s leading provider of digital asset financial infrastructure can solve for your business

Digital asset markets are big business. And if you’re think NFTs or cryptocurrencies, open your mind – it’s now a broad ecosystem taking in centralized markets and DeFi, options and derivatives, tokenized assets, stablecoins and more that are worth trillions of dollars. That’s before considering how industries like real estate, art and entertainment have turned to digital assets for transparency and accessibility, such as with fractional ownership.

At this rate, digital asset infrastructure will become crucial to every industry. And that offers an opportunity for those businesses that understand and can take advantage of this complex new marketplace.

This is where Amberdata comes in. With clients that include banks, hedge funds, traders and even regulators, Amberdata provides the data and end-to-end infrastructure companies need to make critical decisions in digital assets – covering everything from settlement and trading to compliance, across all crypto asset classes. This is deep expertise that’s designed solutions for digital assets that are trusted by global institutions. Here’s how it can help you.

1. Enterprise data

Amberdata connects to all the markets and blockchains that matter – and that means it collects a mass of information from the world of digital assets, be it exchanges, blockchains, DeFi platforms, tokenized assets, NFTs and everything else.

With over 16 petabytes of proprietary, historical data and terabytes more added daily, Amberdata provides real-time and historical insight on prices, markets and more. All this data is high-quality, low-latency and easily accessible through flexible, scalable delivery options such as RESTful API, bulk downloads, the cloud or even AI tools.

2. Analytics and predictive insights

Crypto data is complex. You need clear, actionable insights. Amberdata’s analytics and predictive insights solution translates vast digital asset data into useful intelligence to fuel apps, AI models and predictive systems – so you can take action and build strategies based on real data.

You can model scenarios, build decision trees and design regression models using deep, granular data on digital assets, wallets, protocols and markets. Use AI to stitch together disparate data sources for your specific needs. AmberLens Market Intelligence metrics are customizable with a wide range of delivery models to ensure they are accessible and fit your workflow seamlessly.

Underpinned by best-in-class data infrastructure, these metrics support every aspect of digital asset management – letting you keep ahead in an ever-evolving market.

3. Research

Human insight is needed too, of course. Amberdata Research’s team of experts track the fast-moving digital asset space, with insights and commentary regularly featured in traditional finance publications like Forbes and MarketWatch along with crypto-led publications such CoinDesk, The Block and Decrypt. Their research is also syndicated to Bloomberg and LSEG Refinitiv workstations – tools used by finance professionals around the world every day.

Quarterly overviews, weekly updates and regular snapshots cover everything from crypto-centralized markets to stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets. And the research team’s trading strategy has been backtested, with examples shared so institutions can replicate and customize them for their own needs – it’s cutting-edge intelligence made personal.

4. Market intelligence

Digital assets can be complex and volatile. That makes getting the right data at the right time key to leveraging the crypto opportunity.

Using its deep reserves of data and derived metrics, Amberdata has created a comprehensive set of market intelligence solutions, giving financial institutions the insights required to navigate the crypto market successfully.

One key part of the Amberdata Market Intelligence suite is AmberLens. This empowers asset managers, analysts, researchers and traders to monitor trends and make data-driven decisions using digital asset metric signals such as top and bottom indicators, market sentiment, network activity, volatility metrics and ETF flows. It’s all the actionable insights you need for digital assets, in one place.

Another aspect of the Market Intelligence suite is Amberdata Derivatives, with customisable dashboards for watching the crypto options market, including monitoring open interest, evaluating implied versus realized volatility and visualizing market dynamics. Having that data at your fingertips can drive trading strategies and capitalize on opportunities in the fast-moving digital asset landscape.

5. Benchmarks, indices and reference rates

Financial institutions need benchmark reference prices for reporting, making trading decisions and settling contracts. That’s why Amberdata created a robust methodology for its digital asset reference rates using real trades for accuracy and fairness, pulling in trading volume and price dispersion across multiple exchanges to protect against anomalies and market volatility.

That means Amberdata’s Benchmarks, Indices and Reference Rates gives users reliable, transparent data for trades – and it’s fully compliant with IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks and SOC I/SOC II standards.

In short, this key infrastructure lets institutions build indices to manage portfolios and mitigate risk using reliable, on-time rates for valuations, settlements and reporting. It’s the up-to-date, reliable, standards-compliant rates needed to manage digital assets.

6. Risk and portfolio management

When it comes to digital assets, it can be a challenge to manage portfolios across multiple blockchains and exchanges. Amberdata’s best-in-class Digital Asset Portfolio Management Suite offers a comprehensive view of crypto holdings, be it tracking tokens across decentralized exchanges, tracking assets or lending positions, or managing risk.

Offering historical and real-time balance updates, Amberdata offers a complete view of assets by bringing together everything in one place for easy portfolio management, across L1 and L2 blockchains, protocols and exchanges. That enables a detailed history of transactions, letting you track performance and calculate risk, with built-in analytics that examine price volatility and exposure, and includes liquidity risk monitoring, scenario analysis, stress testing and quantitative metrics such as Value at Risk (VaR).

7. Asset Reference & Classification (ARC)

Traditional financial organizations use open-standard security masters to classify assets, streamline operational processes and manage regulatory compliance. But when it comes to digital assets, existing proprietary security masters lack transparency and accuracy – and are costly, too. That’s proven to be a hurdle for the digital asset industry, leading to inefficient operations and complicating regulatory compliance.

Amberdata has an open-source answer: ARC. This is Amberdata’s Asset Reference & Classification, an open-source standard for classification that lets companies know what digital assets they hold by identifying them correctly and mapping where they’re held. Not only is it open source, avoiding high costs and lock-in, it helps keep ARC interoperable and transparent thanks to its immutable records.

Frequent updates mean the non-hierarchical asset classifications can evolve with the market, while flexible tagging lets companies classify assets when their use cases and underlying technology change.

Covering over 4,000 assets and 125,000 spot, options and futures instruments, ARC ensures everyone is on the same page when it comes to digital assets – and speaking the same language.

8. Tax and regulatory compliance management

Digital assets have naturally attracted the attention of tax agencies and regulators – and that means any company tapping this opportunity needs to be ready for compliance.

One of Amberdata’s main aims is to simplify the complexity of digital asset reporting while adhering to global regulations. Its platform delivers post-trade tools for taxes, auditing, accounting, reporting and compliance, giving you the robust data and deep history you need for tracking transactions, balances, profits and losses. 

Amberdata enables institutions to account for every transaction on the blockchain, seamlessly linking returns across CeFi, DeFi and TradFi. Backed by an institutional-grade digital asset data infrastructure, back-office teams can streamline financial reporting, audits, and taxes. All this allows institutions with large or complex cryptocurrency portfolios to confidently meet compliance requirements.

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