Case Studies

An archive of technical deep-dives, architectural reviews, and data engineering pipelines built by Rantum Studio.

Three Ways a Measurement Layer Lies to You Perspective

Three quiet failure modes in analytics platforms: the cost allocation whose residual is zero by construction, the identity join that merges two customers, and the fact table that changes months. Each one runs green.

Data Platforms Engineering

ClearTrace ● Live

Neutral, third-party proof of where DEX volume really originates, surfacing hidden, untagged orderflow plus execution quality and MEV across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Live API + dashboard.

On-Chain Attribution

AddressIntel ● Live

Predictive real-estate intelligence fusing fragmented municipal permit records with multimodal AI (Google Gemini) to score teardown probability, flippability, and off-market opportunity. Live B2B API.

PropTech Predictive ML

DePIN QoS Oracle Prototype

A real-time anomaly-detection oracle that scores the reliability of decentralized GPU compute (Akash, Render, io.net) as a 0–100 Compute Health Score for autonomous AI agents.

DePIN Anomaly Detection

Graphify Charts Internal Tool

A FastAPI rendering engine that aggregates Notion databases and streams dynamic, real-time SVG charts directly into Notion embeds.

SaaS Data Viz

Detecting MEV & Sandwich Attacks On-Chain ● Live

A practical methodology for detecting MEV and sandwich attacks on-chain, separating real slippage from adversarial extraction, across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism.

On-Chain MEV

From Fragmented Permit Data to a Teardown-Probability Model Case Study

How AddressIntel unifies building permits from four municipal systems on the parcel APN, engineers a teardown label that is independent of the feature it validates, and backtests it point-in-time, with an honest read on what the model actually beats.

PropTech Point-in-Time ML

What Won't Change in On-Chain Execution Markets Perspective

Nine structural bets about execution, MEV, and data verification on-chain that don't depend on any specific protocol, model, or chain staying the same.

On-Chain Market Structure

On-Chain Entity Resolution: Naming the "Unknown Proxy" Case Study

How ClearTrace turns anonymous, high-volume "Unknown Proxy (0x…)" contracts into named entities with a cheapest-first resolution ladder across a dozen sources: on-chain registries, bytecode fingerprints, proxy slots, and paid APIs tried last.

On-Chain Entity Resolution

When You Can't Simulate the Fill: Off-Chain RFQ Execution Quality Case Study

Off-chain RFQ and private-market-maker fills revert under fork-simulation. ClearTrace detects them from the quote's own route and sends them to an on-chain read instead of discarding the sample, so the execution-quality leaderboard is not biased toward AMM-only flow.

On-Chain Execution Quality

Designing a Point-in-Time Backtest You Can Actually Trust Case Study

Most predictive-ML backtests quietly leak the future and report a number that falls apart in production. Here is the point-in-time discipline that separates a defensible model from a flattering demo: the as-of-T rule, time-based folds, rare-event metrics, label independence, and a pre-registered go/no-go.

Predictive ML Point-in-Time

Reconstructing Wallet Journeys Across DEX Frontends, One Chain at a Time Case Study

A blockchain has no sessions and no user IDs, only a flat log of swap legs. Window functions rebuild each wallet's ordered path between DEX entrypoints, but the work that decides whether the output means anything happens before the first LAG: collapsing legs to one transaction, excluding arbitrage bots, and keeping each chain's timeline separate.

On-Chain User Journey

Who Got Paid: Identifying Anonymous DEX Frontends by Their Fee Recipient Case Study

There is no fee event on a swap. A frontend's cut is an ordinary ERC-20 transfer hiding among the swap's own token movements, so identifying it is a problem of exclusion rather than decoding: five categories to rule out, an asymmetry that makes a fee sink a signal in one direction only, and a confidence ceiling that stays at medium on purpose.

On-Chain Attribution