DeFi Labelling in Argos: How We Classify Every Transaction on Ethereum

Nothing against that particular company but I have noticed access to indexed data for users is getting harder and harder in the ethereum ecosystem.

Etherscan (the leader I guess) and others are limiting more and more access to their API through "Access to selected chains community endpoints". But no simple user will be willing to pay $50 a month for a bit of data.

All those companies are chasing big clients like a wallets but now that we have x402 [0] why not offer a pay per request / pay as you go option?

I haven't really followed that space but it seems the fact that TheGraph [1] never really succeeded in their model is one of the reason there is a problem to access indexed data for users.

- [0] https://www.x402.org/

- [1] https://thegraph.com/

How Argos automatically labels every Ethereum transaction with its DeFi semantics, from sandwich attacks to liquidations, and how we built a novel, formally verified arbitrage detection engine using term rewriting.