Archax leverages Applied Edge to gain 90 days of forward visibility across every dependency

• 20+ security issues caught
• 14 vendor dependencies and 11 blockchain networks monitored continuously for potential upcoming breaking changes
• 90 days of forward visibility on dependency updates (average)
• 15+ third party service and chain changes evaluated against the codebase each month, saving a developer day of manual review

Supporting a wide range of blockchain protocols exposes Archax to a steady stream of protocol updates that can break tokenisation. The same is true of the third-party APIs and infrastructure Archax depends on. The information is usually available somewhere in release notes and changelogs, but keeping track of dozens of dependencies is time-consuming and difficult to scale.

Tracking and reacting to these updates typically requires a project manager spending a day each month on them, plus 1 to 2 days of developer time investigating and acting on what they find. That competes directly with product development.

Security follows the same pattern. For an FCA-regulated business handling custody, authentication and multi-organisation access controls, periodic audit is the industry norm. Archax holds itself to a higher bar: continuous oversight that runs alongside development rather than being tied to review cycles.

Applied Edge's team built Claude-powered monitoring agents, configured with engineering patterns drawn from over a decade building software for regulated industries. These patterns shape how the agents assess severity, recommend fixes and prioritise action in the context of a specific architecture. This is not something you get from pointing a general-purpose tool at a codebase.

Three scans run against Archax's codebase every week:

• Blockchain monitoring. Claude reviews protocol announcements, release notes and developer resources for each network, then analyses the Archax codebase to determine which updates will actually affect the platform, giving the team time to act before changes go live.
• Vendor dependency monitoring. The same approach is applied to custody providers and third-party APIs: Claude tracks what each vendor publishes, then cross-references against how Archax uses the integration to identify updates that require action.
• Security scanning. Claude performs a full security audit of the codebase, categorises findings by severity, and produces pull requests with proposed fixes for the engineers to review.

After each scan, Archax receives a prioritised report showing issues categorised by severity, recommended actions, implementation deadlines, and the likely impact if left unresolved.

For a regulated platform where tokens represent real capital and assets, continuous coverage is the standard the business holds itself to. Applied Edge sustains that standard across every chain, every vendor and every security audit, with full human oversight at every stage, and without diverting engineering capacity from the product. The institutions whose assets sit on the platform benefit from that coverage whether they see it or not.

This case study is published by Applied Blockchain Ltd. Applied Edge is Applied Blockchain's AI consultancy practice.