We’re excited to announce our latest integration with Katana, a DeFi-native blockchain purpose-built for high-performance trading and capital-efficient liquidity. This collaboration brings Nansen’s industry-leading onchain analytics to Katana’s fast-growing ecosystem, giving users access to powerful insights through the Katana Growth Dashboard.
“High-performance DeFi environments generate large volumes of onchain activity, but that data only becomes useful when it’s accessible and interpretable. By integrating Katana, we’re giving users a clearer view into how a trading-oriented DeFi ecosystem is growing and where activity is actually taking place.”
— Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen
Katana: The Trading Chain for DeFi-Natives
Katana is a next-generation blockchain engineered for real-time execution, low-latency trading, and deep onchain liquidity. With optimized infrastructure and market design, it supports the speed and throughput required by modern DeFi traders and protocols. In the last six months, Katana has processed over 11 million transactions, with daily activity regularly above 100,000 transactions and a peak of over 222,000.
The network recorded 108,000+ transactions in the last 24 hours, reflecting sustained onchain usage. Developer activity remains strong, with recent surges of up to 2,200 smart contract deployments per day. Protocols like Layer3, Relay Protocol, and Angle Protocol lead user engagement, together representing over 80% of activity across more than 35,000 unique users.
A New Lens on DeFi Liquidity
Through this integration, users can now access the Katana Growth Dashboard on the Nansen platform. This dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of the ecosystem, including:
- Transaction volumes and trends
- Active wallet addresses activity
- Smart contract deployment data
- Entity-level wallet analysis
Whether you’re a developer building the next DeFi primitive or a trader navigating fast-moving markets, Nansen’s analytics give you the tools to identify trends early and make data-driven decisions.
“Katana was built for traders and builders who operate in fast, liquidity-driven markets, where execution quality and transparency matter,” said Matt Fisher, Founding Team and BD at Katana. “By integrating with Nansen, we’re giving the ecosystem institutional-grade visibility into how capital moves, how liquidity forms, and how real usage evolves onchain. That level of insight is critical as DeFi continues to professionalize.”
Accelerating Katana’s Ecosystem Growth
This partnership underscores our mission to bring clarity to crypto by making onchain data accessible, contextual, and actionable. By integrating with Katana, we expand our multi-chain coverage to include a network designed from the ground up for DeFi — empowering users to explore and understand high-frequency onchain activity in new ways.
Explore the Katana Growth Dashboard on Nansen and gain your trading edge today.