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Labels & Entities

Raw Ethereum is anonymous by default: every participant is a hex string. TraceFast's labeling layer is what turns 0x9696…6976 into Binance 18 · EOA · High traffic · Whale.

The concepts

  • Labels — human-readable facts attached to an address: a name, a category, behavioral tags. One address can carry several.
  • Entities — organizations behind addresses. Binance 14, Binance 18, and Coinbase Commerce are labels; binance and coinbase are entities that group them. Entity grouping is what lets you reason about an organization's activity as a whole, across all the addresses it operates.
  • Categories — labels classify addresses into broad families: exchanges, DeFi protocols, bridges, funds, infrastructure, and so on.
  • Confidence — not every attribution is equally certain. Some labels are established facts; others are candidates, and TraceFast says so explicitly — you'll see markers like (candidate) on tentative attributions rather than false certainty.

The approach

TraceFast aggregates labeling evidence from multiple independent sources and resolves it into entities, rather than trusting any single list. Where sources disagree or evidence is partial, the label carries its uncertainty visibly instead of hiding it.

Labels appear everywhere in the product: dashboard widgets (ETH Flows, Top Fee lists), address pages, transaction traces, and DeFi views. Warning labels — like the Spoof badge on lookalike tokens or the Blacklisted registry — are part of the same layer.

Bring your own labels

Have your own labeling system or a third-party intelligence feed? TraceFast is built to integrate it — without your data ever leaving your control. See External Label Integrations.