Hypernative vs Hexagate vs Blockaid Compared

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Hypernative, Hexagate and Blockaid all detect onchain attacks and can act on their own. They differ in where they start: the protocol, the detection logic, or the signature.

Guardian publishes this comparison and sells Managed Security, which competes with all three. Every vendor claim comes from that vendor's own pages.

Hypernative leads with protocol monitoring and response services. Hexagate, owned by Chainalysis since December 2024, leads with programmable monitors. Blockaid leads with screening transactions in wallets and dApps before signing.

All three can pause contracts. Hypernative also moves funds and unwinds positions, Hexagate blocks transactions, and Blockaid revokes approvals and denies cosigner signatures. Each action needs a privilege you grant, so test it on a fork.

None of the three publishes a price. Ask what drives the cost, and whether automated actions and incident response are included.

All three are platforms, though Hypernative also lists incident response services. Someone still has to judge an alert at three in the morning. A managed service adds people who triage every alert and hold agreed authority to act.

Guardian's Managed Security is built for that gap: response, not notification. A Guardian engineer who knows your system responds around the clock, with a 15-minute SLA on Critical alerts.

Read the full comparison for the pre-signing details, or talk to Guardian about putting a response team behind your detection.

Disclosure: Guardian publishes this comparison and sells Managed Security, which competes with all three. Every vendor claim below comes from that vendor's own pages and announcements, linked under Sources.

Hypernative, Hexagate and Blockaid often land on the same shortlist. Each detects attacks onchain, each can act on its own, and none publishes a price.

The differences are in where each one starts: the protocol, the detection logic or the signature.

This guide compares them on detection, prevention, pricing signals and who responds when an alert fires. We read every page in November 2026.

At a Glance

All three also sell beyond protocol monitoring. Hypernative and Blockaid have fraud prevention products for exchanges and financial institutions.

Hexagate has Wallet Compromise Detection for treasury, customer and institutional wallets.

Detection Approach

Hypernative

Hypernative says it detects threats with "AI models, graph analysis, heuristics, and simulations". It claims mempool-level detection of contract exploits, bridge attacks and zero-days.

It lists 300+ risk types, from oracle manipulation and depegs to admin key, signer and ownership changes.

Teams build their own agents with a no-code builder or a Python SDK. Agent Studio, announced September 29, 2026, drafts an agent from a plain-language prompt.

A reviewer approves each one: "Nothing goes live without your explicit approval."

Hexagate

Chainalysis calls Hexagate its blockchain security platform, for real-time onchain threat detection and automated prevention.

It detects key compromises, phishing, governance attacks and suspicious token flows, with ML models Chainalysis says are trained on "multi-year blockchain data".

Gatelang, Hexagate's custom detection language, "lets teams build any monitor they need". Pre-built monitors cover the common cases.

Announcing the acquisition on December 18, 2024, Chainalysis said Hexagate had detected all known hacks over the prior two years, and more than 98% before they occurred. Those are its own figures.

Blockaid

Blockaid's Onchain Monitoring watches contracts, treasury and multisig wallets, EOAs, sequencers, mempools, validators and bridges.

It looks for malicious transactions, compromised frontends, suspicious function calls, MEV attacks and liquidity anomalies, using what Blockaid calls "battle-tested ML models".

Its distinctive input is the wallet. Blockaid's "Customer Data Network" draws on its direct integrations with wallets and dApps.

Coinbase and MetaMask are among the users quoted on its site.

Prevention and Firewall Features

Prevention comes in two forms: acting after detection, and checking a transaction before anyone signs it.

Automated response

• Hypernative: pauses contracts, moves funds and unwinds positions "at the moment of detection".
• Hexagate: "contract pauses, transaction blocking, and more", with playbooks across Slack, Telegram, email and SIEM tools.
• Blockaid: pauses contracts, changes parameters, revokes approvals and denies cosigner signatures.

Each action needs a privilege you grant, such as a pauser role, a module or a cosigner seat. Decide who holds it, and test it on a fork.

Checks before signing

Bridges

Blockaid also runs Bridge Sentinel, announced with LayerZero on October 9, 2026. It is a verifier (DVN) that screens each cross-chain message and can hold or refuse it.

If a setting it watches changes, such as an admin role or mint authority, it stops attesting. A route that requires it then halts.

Pricing Signals

None of the three publishes a price list. Each sells through a demo, so the signals are in how they onboard.

• Hypernative: its FAQ says "Most organizations are live within weeks", with a dedicated security engineer at onboarding.
• Hexagate: the protocols page offers "Get started for free" and integration "in minutes with no contract changes".
• Blockaid: for wallets and dApps, it says teams can "Deploy production-ready security in days".

Ask each vendor:

• What drives the price: chains, contracts, addresses or transaction volume?
• Are custom detections, automated actions and pre-signing checks included?
• Is incident response included, retained or billed per incident?
• What do we keep if we leave: rules, alert history, integrations?

Tool vs Managed Response

All three are platforms. They detect and can act, but someone still decides what an alert means at 3 AM.

• Hypernative lists security services, security council participation and "Expert Incident Response".
• In October 2025, Hypernative partnered with Cantina, whose MDR responds with "guaranteed response times under 15 minutes".
• Hexagate's page describes alerting and SIEM/SOAR integrations to "accelerate incident response". It does not describe a response team.
• Blockaid offers dedicated engineering support for integrations. The pages we read describe no managed response.

A managed service adds the people: someone who triages every alert, knows your system and holds agreed authority to act.

Our guide to Web3 MDR explains how to judge one.

Which One Fits

• Hypernative: protocols, chains and institutions that want monitoring, automated response and transaction policies from one vendor.
• Hexagate: teams that want to write their own monitors, and firms already working with Chainalysis.
• Blockaid: wallets and apps protecting users at signing, multisig and MPC operators, and token issuers on LayerZero.

Many teams need more than one layer: detection, a check before signing, and someone who responds.

New to the category? Start with what onchain monitoring is. For the wider field, see our ranking of smart contract monitoring tools.

Where Guardian Fits

Guardian's Managed Security is built for that gap. Its stated outcome is "Response, not notification".

Guardian monitors your contracts on every block: privileged calls, role and ownership changes, upgrades, multisig transactions and large fund movements.

Monitors are customized to your protocol and run alongside out-of-the-box detectors for suspicious contracts and known exploit patterns.

Offchain, Sentry watches your domains, DNS, certificates, cloud and code host.

When something fires, a Guardian engineer who knows your system responds, around the clock. Guardian's security operations team also reviews every multisig transaction before it is signed.

Guardian's launch announcement adds that existing monitoring streams into its global 24/7 MDR team, with a 15-minute SLA on Critical alerts.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Hexagate owned by Chainalysis?

Yes. Chainalysis announced its acquisition of Hexagate on December 18, 2024. It now sells Hexagate as its blockchain security platform, with pre-built and custom monitors, GateSigner and automated actions such as contract pauses.

What is the difference between Hypernative and Blockaid?

Both monitor onchain activity and can pause contracts. Hypernative leads with protocol and institutional monitoring, plus incident response services. Blockaid leads with transaction screening inside wallets and dApps, plus Cosigner for multisig and MPC operators.

Do Hypernative, Hexagate or Blockaid publish pricing?

No. All three sell through demos, and Hexagate's protocols page offers "Get started for free". Ask what drives the price and whether automated actions, pre-signing checks and incident response are included.

Can these tools stop an exploit automatically?

Each says it can act automatically, for example by pausing contracts or blocking transactions. Those actions need privileges you grant, such as a pauser role or a cosigner seat, so test them on a fork and agree who holds them.

Sources

• Hypernative: Homepage and product overview
• Hypernative: Onchain Monitoring and Automated Response
• Hypernative: Transaction Guard
• Hypernative: Introducing Hypernative Agent Studio (September 29, 2026)
• Hypernative: Cantina and Hypernative Partner to Close Gap Between Detection and Response in Web3 (October 15, 2025)
• Chainalysis: Welcoming Hexagate to Chainalysis and Investing in Prevention (December 18, 2024)
• Chainalysis: Hexagate
• Chainalysis: Hexagate for Protocols
• Chainalysis: Hexagate GateSigner
• Cointelegraph: Chainalysis acquires Web3 security firm Hexagate (December 19, 2024)
• Blockaid: Homepage and product overview
• Blockaid: Onchain Monitoring
• Blockaid: Cosigner
• Blockaid: Transaction Security
• Blockaid: End User Protection
• Blockaid: Blockaid Partners with LayerZero to Bring Security Verification to Cross-Chain Bridging Transactions (October 9, 2026)
• Guardian: Managed Security
• Guardian: Guardian Announces Managed Security (November 2026)