Using Wallet Labels in Crypto Investigations

Blockchain investigations live and die on one thing: can you tell what an address actually is. Labels turn a raw list of hex strings into counterparties you can reason about.

Where labels help

• Attribution — which counterparties are exchanges vs. mixers vs. unknown.
• Fund tracing — follow flows through labeled hops faster.
• Prioritization — focus on the addresses that carry risk tags.

Bulk beats one-at-a-time

For an active case you often have hundreds or thousands of addresses. Labeling them in one pass — rather than clicking each in a explorer — is the difference between an afternoon and a minute.

Labels are signal, not proof

A label accelerates an investigation; it doesn't close it. Attribution can lag reality — an exchange rotates a wallet, a new entity isn't mapped yet — so treat a label as a strong lead to corroborate with on-chain behavior and your own case evidence, not as a verdict. The value is speed: labels tell you where to look first across thousands of addresses, so your analysts spend their time on the hops that matter.

Getting started

Send your address list to the ChainLabel API and get entity, wallet type, and risk tags back across chains — or use bulk export for a big one-off list. Start free. Related reading: identifying exchange wallets in bulk.