Blockaid Partners with Houdini Swap to Bring Real-Time Token Scanning to Cross-Chain Swaps

Executive Summary

Houdini Swap is a non-custodial, cross-chain swap aggregator designed for compliant privacy. Its private swaps keep a user's sending and receiving wallets unlinked onchain, and compliance controls are built in. Users can start a trade with only a receiving address, and the platform has processed more than $3 billion in total volume.

Houdini has integrated Blockaid's Token Scanning, which returns a risk verdict on a token before users swap into it. Token Scanning is part of Blockaid's End User Protection, the solution that wallets, exchanges, and platforms such as DEXs use to protect users from fraud and scams when they trade or transact onchain.

New tokens launch across chains every day, and some are scams built to take buyers' funds, including honeypots, rugpulls, and impersonation tokens. With Blockaid's Token Scanning, Houdini flags malicious tokens in real time within its platform, so it can continue scaling its operations while keeping users safe and staying compliant.

The Partnership: Blockaid's Token Scanning Extends Houdini's Vetting to Tokens

The integration gives Houdini an independent risk verdict on each token it checks, adding outside threat intelligence to a platform that has put compliance first since launch.

A scan needs only a token's address and chain, so Houdini shares nothing about the person swapping, the wallets involved, or where funds are going. Blockaid never sees who is trading, and every swap stays as private as Houdini designed it to be.

Houdini lets users reach a token the moment it deploys by pasting its contract address, and Token Scanning evaluates it through a single API call. The check sits within Houdini's native interface, so it adds no extra step for users.

Blockaid's End User Protection: How Token Scanning Reaches a Verdict

End User Protection screens the transactions, addresses, dApps, and tokens people interact with onchain, and apps connect to it through APIs and SDKs. Token Scanning is the engine behind its token coverage, and the one Houdini has integrated.

Token Scanning lets Houdini:

Check token risk in real time - Houdini sends a token's address and chain to the Token Scanning API and receives a verdict in the same call, along with the specific risks behind it.
Flag honeypots, rugpulls, and impersonation tokens - Token Scanning flags honeypots whose code stops holders from selling, rugpulls that let a creator drain the liquidity, and impersonation tokens that copy the name or logo of an established asset.
Cross-check several signals - Each assessment looks at what a token's contract allows, how the token has traded onchain, and where its creator's funds came from. A scam that hides in one of those places usually surfaces in another, so even a newly deployed token gets a result grounded in evidence.
Use threat data from Blockaid's network - Token Scanning runs across the wallets and trading apps that millions of people use, and a malicious token identified through any of them improves the verdicts every partner receives. A token already flagged in another app arrives at Houdini with its risk known.

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Looking Ahead: Demand for Private Cross-Chain Swaps Is Growing

Public blockchains record every swap in the open, and as more financial activity moves onchain, demand for privacy and for moving assets across chains is rising with it. Houdini has built its platform on meeting both within a compliant framework.

That growth runs on cross-chain infrastructure, and Blockaid's H1 2026 Onchain Security Report found bridges were the single largest source of dollar losses in the first half of the year. Houdini is building ahead of that risk, giving users a safe, private, and compliant way to swap across chains. Blockaid's Token Scanning scales with the platform as new users and tokens arrive.

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About Houdini Swap

Houdini Swap is a non-custodial privacy and cross-chain swap platform that works across 120+ chains. It pulls liquidity from non-custodial centralized exchanges and decentralized exchanges to find the best route for every trade. Its Private Swaps break the onchain link between sender and receiver. Each one routes through two non-custodial exchange partners and three separate blockchains, and no wallet connection is needed. Houdini Swap has processed more than $3.0B in volume across 1.3M+ completed swaps. Partners like Solflare, THORchain, Jumper, TokenTerminal, and many more household names use its API to add private swaps and sends to their own apps. Houdini is compliant by design, with AML/ATF controls, OFAC sanctions screening, real-time transaction monitoring and geo-blocking. It never takes custody of user funds.

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About Blockaid

Blockaid is the onchain security platform trusted by the largest companies operating in Web3. Built by veterans of elite intelligence and cybersecurity units, Blockaid provides end-to-end protection for financial institutions, protocols, and end users, combining direct wallet and dApp integrations with real-time monitoring, detection, and response across smart contracts, infrastructure, and externally owned accounts. Since 2025, Blockaid scanned over 6.3 billion transactions and blocked 585 million attacks. Blockaid is the security infrastructure behind Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap, Safe, and dozens of the most widely used platforms in the industry.

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