aid: alterya
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/alterya.png
name: Alterya
description: >-
  Alterya is an AI-powered fraud-prevention company founded in 2022 (Y Combinator; seed round
  led by Battery Ventures, ~$9.8M) that detects authorized-fraud scams — authorized push-payment
  (APP) scams, pig-butchering and romance scams, money-mule and synthetic accounts, and
  social-engineering-driven withdrawals — before victims send funds. It connects fraud signals
  across crypto rails and traditional fiat/bank rails, and prior to acquisition monitored more
  than $8B in transactions per month for exchanges and fintechs including Binance, Coinbase, and
  Block, protecting roughly 100M end users. Chainalysis acquired Alterya in January 2025 for a
  reported ~$150M; it now ships as the "Alterya by Chainalysis" fraud-prevention product. The
  standalone alterya.com domain is parked and the company operates entirely inside Chainalysis,
  with no independent public developer portal, API, or OpenAPI surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alterya/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: acquired-no-api-surface
x-founded: '2022'
x-accelerator: y-combinator
x-acquired-by: chainalysis
x-acquired-date: '2025-01'
x-acquired-amount-usd: 150000000
x-status: acquired
x-domain-status: parked
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Fraud Prevention
- Fraud Detection
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Artificial Intelligence
- Security
apis: []
common:
- type: Product
  name: Alterya by Chainalysis (product)
  url: https://www.chainalysis.com/product/alterya/
- type: About
  name: Chainalysis acquisition announcement
  url: https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/chainalysis-alterya-announcement/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence