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On October 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control published its first industry-specific brochure on sanctions compliance for the virtual currency industry, setting out the components it expects to see in a sa...

The phrase “crypto startup” tells you almost nothing about which AML obligations apply. A four-person team building a custodial swap interface, a payment processor settling stablecoin invoices for merchants, a token issuer running a redemption desk, and a non-custodial DEX front end all describe themselves the same way at the pitch deck stage — and none of them will end up wi...

One day the client’s balance was there, the next it wasn’t. No suspicious emails they could point to, no unusual activity they’d noticed, no clear moment where something had gone wrong. Just 150,000 USDT missing from a Ledger hardware wallet.

What happened next showcases how OSINT can change the course of a crypto investigation to the benefit of the victim.

In its June 2025 Targeted Update on Virtual Assets, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) reported that 85 of 117 responding jurisdictions — about 73% — had passed Travel Rule legislati...

This guide is written for buyers who are already comparing providers such as Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM Labs, CipherTrace, AMLBot, and other AML/KYT/blockchain-analytics vendors. The practical takeaway is that there is no single “best” platform for every team. The right fit depends on whether the primary need is enterprise investigations, day-to-day wallet sc...