Scaling Crypto Tax: Why Awaken Trusts GoldRush for Reliable Multichain Data across 100,000+ Wallets

“Simply put, we couldn't have built Awaken without GoldRush as a reliable, multichain data partner.”
Andrew Duca, Co-Founder @ Awaken

Awaken, a crypto-native tax platform, powers 100,000+ wallet syncs using GoldRush’s reliable multichain data API. By using GoldRush for every EVM chain and non-EVMs such as Bitcoin, Awaken delivers accurate, audit-ready tax reports and real-time portfolio insights, without building or maintaining its own blockchain infrastructure. Awaken's relentless focus on their product and community has led to a 3x YoY growth to 25,000+ crypto-native users.

The Problem: Onchain Data is a Mess

Building a tax platform on top of blockchain data is notoriously challenging including:

• 🧩 Complex transactions and event logs - blockchain transactions are unreadable without decoding into human-readable actions such as a swap, stake, bridge or transfer. Then add in the complexity of tracking asset movement across chains.

• ⚙️ Infrastructure overhead - indexing, storing, and maintaining multi-terabyte blockchain datasets is costly and time-consuming and not the core value-add or proposition of tax platforms.

• ⚠️ Data reliability issues - missing or incomplete transactions from RPC or indexing providers can break calculations and frustrate users.

• 🔐 Regulatory-grade audit requirements - full, accurate historical records are mandatory for compliance and regulatory requirements vary across jurisdictions.

For a small team, all of these challenges present major bottlenecks to ship quickly.

Data Reliability is Everything

In a competitive space, data reliability is everything. For Awaken running over 100,000 wallet syncs during tax season across hundreds of chains, missing data, manually decoding event logs and fixing cost basis calculations meant hours of debugging. Even relying on an established RPC provider when adding a new chain like HyperEVM lead to unacceptable data challenges such as missing transactions. Poor data reliability means a poor user experience leading to churn.

The Solution: GoldRush

Awaken chose to double down on the GoldRush, a set of battle-tested, SOC2-compliant data APIs built by Covalent, for wallet balances and decoded transactions and event logs across all their EVM and non-EVM chains like Bitcoin. Having previously relied on providers that delivered incomplete or unreliable data, Awaken prioritized finding a long-term partner committed to building in crypto. With a trusted name in blockchain data since 2018, GoldRush gave Awaken enterprise-grade data reliability without the need to build or maintain costly indexing infrastructure. Other key benefits of using GoldRush include:

• 100+ supported EVM chains with a unified schema, making integration simple.

• Rich structured data that includes spot and historical wallet balances with fiat prices, decoded transactions that include event logs and multichain activity scans for fast user onboarding.

• Enterprise-grade reliability and scalability to effortless fetch data from 100,000+ wallets.

"All our transaction fetches now come through properly because of the GoldRush API. Our founding engineer loves you guys because you’re basically the most reliable out of everyone."

Key GoldRush Foundational APIs used by Awaken include:

• Get activity across all chains for a wallet address - Full scan of a wallet’s activity in web3 across all 100+ supported EVM chains.

• Get historical token balances for a wallet address - Includes historical fiat price conversions.

• Get paginated transactions for a wallet address - Scan the full transaction history since the genesis block.

The Outcome: Scale Without Sacrifice

By leaning on GoldRush for data infrastructure, Awaken:

• 🔧 Required zero indexing infra with no subgraphs or custom ETLs.

• 🚀 Add new chains in minutes saving hundreds of developer hours across chains.

• 📈 Reliably syncs 100,000+ wallets during peak demand.

• 🔍 Improved accuracy by eliminating missing transactions.

• 🧘 Had peace of mind for users and regulators by leveraging a trusted SOC2 compliant company.

"We default to GoldRush for every chain you support."

Awaken’s success is reinforced by glowing feedback from its users. By delivering accurate, audit-ready reports powered by GoldRush’s reliable multichain data, Awaken has earned strong user loyalty. The team remains committed to building the best crypto tax platform in the market, with deep support for top chains, protocols, and complex DeFi transactions, while trusting GoldRush to keep their data infrastructure reliable and scalable.

What’s Next

Awaken is already trusted by thousands of users to simplify crypto tax reporting, but their ambitions go far beyond the current tax season. The team is expanding coverage to more chains, adding advanced DeFi tax logic, and leveraging AI tools to further streamline accounting workflows, from automating transaction categorization to assisting with complex reconciliation tasks.

With GoldRush continuing to provide clean, reliable, and scalable data across all supported networks, Awaken can integrate these AI capabilities with confidence, knowing their underlying data is complete and accurate. This partnership ensures that as Awaken grows, their data backbone will keep pace with both technical innovation and market demand.

To start building with GoldRush, visit the official documentation.