Whale Detective is a digital collection platform under the Ant Group, and its predecessor is Alipay applet "Ant Chain vermicelli".

Whale Detective is a digital collection publishing platform of Ant Chain, which Alipay participated in and provided with technical support.

Whale Detective's digital collection is a kind of virtual cultural goods with limited distribution, which is mainly based on China's traditional cultural works, and is dedicated to the promotion of traditional and modern culture and art. Each digital collection corresponds to a specific work or artwork, and has a unique serial number in the chain as the only ownership certificate, which is inseparable, tamper-proof and non-reproducible.

On February 22nd, 222, Whale Detective, a digital collection platform owned by Ant Group, announced in the app, saying that some users were found to have illegal transactions outside the platform, and 56 users were restricted from giving gifts.

In May, 222, the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center found through Internet monitoring that Whale Detective didn't express all the privacy rights it applied for to users, and it didn't get the individual's separate consent to handle sensitive personal information, which was suspected of privacy irregularities.