Common Use Cases

Explore step-by-step guides for common development workflows used by thousands of teams.

Build	What the Etherscan API helps you do
Wallets & Portfolio Apps	Retrieve balances, transaction history, token holdings, NFT assets, and address labels.
Analytics & Research	Analyze onchain activity, protocol usage, token holders, events, and historical trends.
Security & Compliance	Screen addresses with labels and reputation, monitor transactions, and assess wallet risk.
Finance & Accounting	Export complete transaction records, historical balances, and transfer activity for reconciliation.
DeFi & Onchain Apps	Index tokens, contracts, events, and onchain activity for DeFi and Web3 applications.
AI & Automation	Power AI agents, MCP servers, bots, and automation workflows with onchain data and metadata.

Explore guides for common development workflows:

Wallet and Portfolio

Build wallet experiences with balances, transactions, NFTs, and readable names.

Tax and Accounting

Generate complete, reconcilable transaction records for tax reporting, accounting, and audits.

Security and Compliance

Screen addresses, monitor transactions, and detect phishing, hacks, and sanctions.

Onchain Analytics and Research

Analyze blockchain activity with entity attribution, holders, logs, and daily stats.

Every guide uses a single API key across all 60+ supported chains. Many also combine core API endpoints with Etherscan Metadata, the identity layer that returns the same names, labels, and reputation shown on Etherscan. New to the API? Start with Make your first call.

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Wallet and Portfolio

Tax and Accounting

Security and Compliance

Onchain Analytics and Research