On-chain analytics answers a narrow question well: what did this address do? Institutional diligence asks a wider one: which legal person is accountable for it, and who controls that person?
The resolution problem
Entity resolution requires reconciling registry identifiers, trading names, group structures and observed on-chain behaviour into a single record with source provenance attached to each field. Without provenance, the record is an assertion rather than evidence.
“A data point without a source is an opinion with a timestamp.”
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