TrueHold vs Nansen: an honest side-by-side
Nansen is on-chain analytics and AI trading with 500M+ labeled addresses. TrueHold is a read-only portfolio tracker for what you actually own.
Nansen is a research and trading platform: “Trade Everything Onchain With AI”, 500M+ labeled addresses, smart money leaderboards, an AI analyst that answers on-chain questions, and execution across venues. It tracks wallets and positions across chains as part of that. TrueHold is a portfolio tracker and nothing else: your exchanges by read-only key, your wallets by address, perps, DeFi and prediction markets in one total, an agent that reads your own books rather than the market.
If the question is what smart money is doing, Nansen is built to answer it. If the question is what you own and what it earned, TrueHold answers that without ever being able to trade.
Side by side
What it is
Nansen
“Trade Everything Onchain With AI”: on-chain analytics, smart money labels and trading execution, with wallet and portfolio tracking inside.
TrueHold
Read-only crypto portfolio tracker: wallets, exchanges, DeFi, perps, prediction markets and NFTs in one total, with an AI agent grounded in your own data.
Custody and trading
Nansen
Executes trades across venues, so it is more than a reader. Read its terms for how execution and funds are handled.
TrueHold
Never holds or moves assets. No trading, no swaps, no staking from the app: read-only API keys and public addresses only.
Exchanges
Nansen
Not mentioned on its site when checked for centralized exchange accounts.
TrueHold
Binance, OKX, Bybit, Kraken, Coinbase, Bitget, Gate, MEXC, BingX, Backpack and 500+ more through read-only API keys. Futures, margin and earn balances included.
Wallets and chains
Nansen
“Track any wallet or your own portfolio move in real time”, “500M+ labeled addresses”.
TrueHold
Any public address on 180+ chains: EVM family, Solana, Tron, TON, Bitcoin and the UTXO set. Hardware wallets by address, never connected.
Perp DEXes
Nansen
Trades spot and perps; Hyperliquid named among venues.
TrueHold
Hyperliquid and Lighter read by address: positions, funding and PnL. Exchange futures through the same read-only key as spot.
DeFi positions
Nansen
“Analyze your positions across chains.”
TrueHold
LP shares, lending balances, staked and restaked positions decoded by protocol across 70+ chains and counted into the total.
Prediction markets
Nansen
Not mentioned on its site when checked.
TrueHold
Polymarket by address and Kalshi by read-only key, counted as the positions they are.
NFTs
Nansen
Not mentioned on its site when checked on the homepage.
TrueHold
Tracked next to tokens, valued at floor and marked as floor.
Taxes
Nansen
Not mentioned on its site when checked.
TrueHold
Tax-ready CSV exports (cost basis, realized PnL, transfers, DeFi events) in Premium. No tax forms; the CSV goes to your accountant or tax tool.
AI
Nansen
“Your Onchain AI Analyst”: ask anything on-chain, plus automated trading execution.
TrueHold
An agent that reads your own portfolio: what changed, why PnL moved, what a position is. Grounded in your data, not the open web.
Platforms
Nansen
Web app.
TrueHold
Web app.
Free tier
Nansen
Pricing tiers not named on the homepage.
TrueHold
Tracking is free: every connection, balance, history and PnL. Premium adds the exports.
| What matters | Nansen | TrueHold |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | “Trade Everything Onchain With AI”: on-chain analytics, smart money labels and trading execution, with wallet and portfolio tracking inside. | Read-only crypto portfolio tracker: wallets, exchanges, DeFi, perps, prediction markets and NFTs in one total, with an AI agent grounded in your own data. |
| Custody and trading | Executes trades across venues, so it is more than a reader. Read its terms for how execution and funds are handled. | Never holds or moves assets. No trading, no swaps, no staking from the app: read-only API keys and public addresses only. |
| Exchanges | Not mentioned on its site when checked for centralized exchange accounts. | Binance, OKX, Bybit, Kraken, Coinbase, Bitget, Gate, MEXC, BingX, Backpack and 500+ more through read-only API keys. Futures, margin and earn balances included. |
| Wallets and chains | “Track any wallet or your own portfolio move in real time”, “500M+ labeled addresses”. | Any public address on 180+ chains: EVM family, Solana, Tron, TON, Bitcoin and the UTXO set. Hardware wallets by address, never connected. |
| Perp DEXes | Trades spot and perps; Hyperliquid named among venues. | Hyperliquid and Lighter read by address: positions, funding and PnL. Exchange futures through the same read-only key as spot. |
| DeFi positions | “Analyze your positions across chains.” | LP shares, lending balances, staked and restaked positions decoded by protocol across 70+ chains and counted into the total. |
| Prediction markets | Not mentioned on its site when checked. | Polymarket by address and Kalshi by read-only key, counted as the positions they are. |
| NFTs | Not mentioned on its site when checked on the homepage. | Tracked next to tokens, valued at floor and marked as floor. |
| Taxes | Not mentioned on its site when checked. | Tax-ready CSV exports (cost basis, realized PnL, transfers, DeFi events) in Premium. No tax forms; the CSV goes to your accountant or tax tool. |
| AI | “Your Onchain AI Analyst”: ask anything on-chain, plus automated trading execution. | An agent that reads your own portfolio: what changed, why PnL moved, what a position is. Grounded in your data, not the open web. |
| Platforms | Web app. | Web app. |
| Free tier | Pricing tiers not named on the homepage. | Tracking is free: every connection, balance, history and PnL. Premium adds the exports. |
Where Nansen wins
- Research nobody else has: Labels on 500M+ addresses, smart money flows, leaderboards. TrueHold has none of that.
- An analyst for the market: Its AI answers questions about the chain, not only about your wallet.
- Execution: Trades spot and perps from the same interface, aggregating venues for routing.
- Whale watching as a product: Following specific wallets and funds is the core, not a side feature.
Where TrueHold wins
- Your exchanges in the total: Binance, OKX, Bybit, Kraken, Coinbase and 500+ more by read-only key, next to wallets.
- Read-only by construction: No execution, no routing, nothing to sign. A tracker that cannot trade cannot be tricked into trading.
- Prediction markets and every rail: Polymarket and Kalshi counted; Bitcoin, Tron and TON by address alongside the EVM family and Solana.
- An agent on your own books: Questions about your positions, history and PnL, answered from your data.
The question that decides it
Ask whether you are researching the market or accounting for yourself. Nansen is the former: intelligence, labels, execution. TrueHold is the latter: every account you own in one read-only total. They overlap on wallet tracking, and the overlap is where the difference shows: Nansen tracks addresses as signals, TrueHold tracks them as your money.
People who trade on signals often run both, and the split is clean: Nansen to decide, TrueHold to know where you stand afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
Does Nansen track my exchange accounts?
Centralized exchange accounts are not mentioned on Nansen’s homepage. TrueHold reads them through read-only API keys.
Does TrueHold show smart money?
No. TrueHold reads the addresses you paste and the accounts you connect; it does not label or rank other wallets.
Can Nansen trade for me?
Its homepage describes agentic trading and execution across venues. TrueHold never executes anything.
Can I use both?
Yes. TrueHold only needs read-only keys and addresses, so it sits beside any research tool.
See your whole portfolio in one view
Read-only by design. Paste a wallet, link an exchange, and watch every chain. Free to start.
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