# Blockaid

> Blockaid is a web3 security company that acts as a real-time trust layer for onchain finance, simulating and validating blockchain transactions before they execute to stop scams, drainers, exploits, fraud, and compliance risks. Its detection engines are embedded inside major wallets, exchanges, and protocols - including Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap, Stellar, and OKX - screening hundreds of millions of transactions a month and protecting hundreds of billions of dollars in digital assets. Founded in 2022 by former Israeli cyber-intelligence operators, the New York- and Tel Aviv-based company has raised roughly $89 million and is expanding from consumer wallet protection into institutional compliance infrastructure.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Ido Ben-Natan (Co-Founder & CEO), Raz Niv (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~120 employees
- **Products:** Transaction Simulation & Validation Engine, dApp Scanning Engine, Token Scanning Engine, Address / Crypto Address Validation Engine, Onchain Monitoring & Response
- **Notable:** Scanned 5.9B+ transactions and helped prevent over $13.1B in theft while securing $312B+ in assets (cumulative platform stats)., Prevented 527M+ attacks across integrated platforms., Adopted by category-leading wallets and exchanges including Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap and OKX within roughly a year of leaving stealth.

## Products & services

- **Transaction Simulation & Validation Engine** — Simulates and validates blockchain transactions before they execute, previewing outcomes and flagging malicious activity so wallets and apps can warn or block users pre-signature.
- **dApp Scanning Engine** — Fully simulates all possible user interactions with a decentralized app inside a sandbox to determine whether the dApp is malicious; scans over 15M sites daily and surfaces hundreds of new malicious dApps.
- **Token Scanning Engine** — Detects malicious, spam, and high-risk tokens to protect users from scam assets and honeypots.
- **Address / Crypto Address Validation Engine** — Validates crypto addresses in real time to help exchanges and wallets flag risky counterparties.
- **Onchain Monitoring & Response** — Measures onchain risk and enables programmatic, automated response for DeFi protocol builders.
- **Crypto Fraud Prevention** — Detects social-engineering scams such as pig-butchering for exchanges, banks, and fintechs.
- **Cosigner** — Hardens wallet operations and unifies policy enforcement across multisig approval workflows for wallet administrators.
- **Risk Exposure** — Real-time compliance infrastructure suite - Risk Screening API, Cosigner Policy Engine, and DeFi Toxicity Monitors - that lets institutions enforce risk policy before illicit exposure spreads onchain.

## Achievements

- Scanned 5.9B+ transactions and helped prevent over $13.1B in theft while securing $312B+ in assets (cumulative platform stats).
- Prevented 527M+ attacks across integrated platforms.
- Adopted by category-leading wallets and exchanges including Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap and OKX within roughly a year of leaving stealth.
- Raised ~$89M total, including a $50M Series B led by Ribbit Capital with GV.
- Expanded from consumer wallet protection into institutional real-time compliance with the 2026 Risk Exposure launch.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Launched Risk Exposure, a real-time compliance infrastructure suite (Risk Screening API, Cosigner Policy Engine, DeFi Toxicity Monitors) to help institutions enforce compliance at DeFi speed.
- **2025-02** — Raised $50M Series B led by Ribbit Capital with participation from GV, Variant, and Cyberstarts, bringing total funding to roughly $89M.
- **2023-10** — Emerged from stealth with $33M across seed and Series A rounds backed by Sequoia, Greylock, Cyberstarts, Ribbit, and Variant.

## Links

- Website: https://blockaid.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockaid
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/blockaid_

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Last updated: 2026-07-22