Nansen just flipped the lights on inside Ethereum’s most opaque scaling playground. By integrating Metis Andromeda, its AI-driven analytics are exposing the smart money flows, hidden dApp traction, and whale movements that Layer-2 users have been guessing at for years.

According to a press release shared with crypto.news on August 8, blockchain analytics firm Nansen has integrated Metis Andromeda, a permissionless Ethereum Layer-2 network, into its real-time analytics and social intelligence platform.

The move brings Metis activity under Nansen’s AI-powered lens, enabling live tracking of wallet movements, liquidity flows, and on-chain trends that were previously buried in fragmented datasets. The partnership follows Metis’ recent Andromeda upgrade, which introduced a dual-chain structure and enhanced decentralization features.

Metis’ design and the new lens on Layer-2 activity

According to the statement, Metis Andromeda was built to serve as a high-capacity foundation for decentralized applications, offering developers an Ethereum-compatible environment with low transaction costs and rapid finality.

“Metis is building the infrastructure for scalable, permissionless, and community-owned Web3 economies,” Alex Svanevik, CEO and co-founder of Nansen, said. “By integrating Metis, we’re giving users—from builders to institutional stakeholders—tools they need to understand the data, make informed decisions, and stay ahead of the curve in an increasingly complex ecosystem.”

The timing of Nansen’s integration aligns with Metis’ recent technical leap. The Andromeda upgrade introduced Hyperion, a parallelized execution layer optimized for AI and high-throughput dApps, while ReGenesis slashed historical data bloat—critical for long-term scalability.

Now, with Nansen’s AI parsing every transaction, developers can see exactly how these upgrades are performing in real-world conditions, from sequencer efficiency to smart contract bottlenecks.

Transparency as a growth engine

For Metis CEO Tom Ngo, Nansen’s analytics are foundational for the network’s next phase. “Real-time analytics and monitoring tools from Nansen bring new levels of transparency and usability to the Metis ecosystem,” he noted.

The implication is clear: in a market where Layer-2s often obscure real usage with inflated metrics, Metis is betting that hard data will attract serious builders.

The numbers support the strategy. Over the past six months, Metis has seen its total value locked climb steadily, with DeFi protocols and gaming applications driving consistent transaction volume.

More telling is the developer activity. Projects leveraging MetisSDK’s modular stack are increasingly targeting sectors like AI and real-world assets, signaling that the network is moving beyond speculative trading and into utility-driven adoption.