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Alex Svanevik co-founded and leads Nansen, turning blockchain data into tools for researching and trading onchain. His work now focuses on integrating AI agents with financial data, alongside personal investments in companies such as Blockscout and Mito Health.

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Alex Svanevik co-founded and leads Nansen, turning blockchain data into tools for researching and trading onchain. His work now focuses on integrating AI agents with financial data, alongside personal investments in companies such as Blockscout and Mito Health.

Career

Alex Svanevik holds an MSc, Artificial Intelligence (2010) from The University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor’s degree, Cognitive Science (2009) from University of Bergen.

Co-founder and CEO at Nansen until PresentCo-founded Nansen and leads its onchain intelligence and trading platform.
Advisory Board Member at VEVD until PresentAdvises the data and AI consultancy.
Data Science Manager at Schibsted Media Group until 2018Managed data scientists working with Schibsted’s media and marketplace products.

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Letter to Nansen Users (2025)

His argument for making onchain research and trading more accessible, with user portfolio outcomes guiding product decisions.

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AI agents, onchain markets and earning trust

He explains Nansen’s move from analytics to execution, why AI trading needs gradual trust, and the incentive problems facing crypto founders.

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Machine Learning on Ethereum Data: Recommending Tokens

With Evgeny Medvedev, he explains an ERC20 recommendation experiment, including failed approaches, model evaluation and the case for public blockchain data.

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4 Years of Data Science at Schibsted Media Group

Practical lessons on evaluating models and running a data-science team, from simple benchmarks to collaboration, incentives and psychological safety.

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