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Blockchain analytics for financial crime
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TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence tools for financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies to detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud. It analyzes blockchain activity using data engineering, data science, and threat intelligence to surface risk signals, enable investigations, and support compliance workflows. Its products combine on-chain and off-chain data, risk scoring, and case management through subscription services and customized solutions. Compared to others, TRM Labs serves a diverse client base (banks, exchanges, regulators) and emphasizes end-to-end investigative capabilities and tailored risk insights rather than generic analytics. The company’s goal is to improve the security and integrity of the global financial system by reducing illicit activity in the crypto space.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$220M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2018
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HTX Sanctions and the Limits of AML Screening. July 22, 2026 TRM Labs, a US blockchain analytics firm and one of the main competitors to the better-known Chainalysis and Elliptic, published an interesting article yesterday about the HTX exchange. As you probably remember, UK authorities added HTX to their sanctions list back in May. Since then, many firms that perform AML labeling of blockchain addresses have flagged addresses linked to the exchange as high-risk. As a result, withdrawing almost any crypto from HTX has become a real headache. Recipients that screen incoming transactions for money-laundering risks may simply refuse to accept funds that have passed through the exchange. In its article, TRM Labs argues that the applicable jurisdiction should be taken into account. UK-based organizations are legally required to freeze HTX-linked assets and report them, but companies outside the UK have no such automatic obligation. That sounds pretty sensible, doesn't it? If a crypto recipient has no ties to the UK and is not bound by its sanctions, AML providers should present risk information in a way that makes it clear that accepting these funds may not violate any rules in the recipient's own jurisdiction, although it could still cause problems when dealing with UK counterparties. It is honestly surprising that no one appears to have made this case publicly before. On this point, I am with TRM Labs. The article also notes that, since being sanctioned, HTX has started rotating its deposit and withdrawal addresses much more frequently, as shown in the screenshot. This makes it harder to identify each new address as belonging to the exchange in time. On one hand, this is convenient for legitimate HTX users. They may be able to withdraw their crypto before the recipient realizes that it came from an address linked to a sanctioned exchange. On the other hand, if you move crypto from HTX to another exchange, that exchange may eventually figure out where it came from. TRM Labs claims that it can identify HTX's new wallets. Once the receiving exchange makes that connection, it may freeze your account along with everything held in it. Keeping your crypto on exchanges is risky. When you exchange crypto through rabbit.io, Rabbit don't hold your funds. You send crypto from your own address and receive the exchanged assets directly to your own address as well.
Unit21, an AI risk infrastructure platform for fraud prevention and anti-money laundering monitoring, has partnered with blockchain intelligence platform TRM Labs. The integration allows TRM's transaction monitoring alerts to flow into Unit21 for investigation and reporting, whilst TRM's wallet screening data feeds Unit21's rules engine. Mutual customers can now detect and investigate cryptocurrency and fiat currency risks in a single system. For TRM users, the partnership brings blockchain intelligence into Unit21's compliance platform, unifying detection, case management, and regulatory filing. Unit21's crypto and fintech customers gain access to TRM's on-chain risk intelligence, with wallet screening results available as input for rule conditions. The integration enriches wallet data with TRM's screening API, including risk levels, indicators, transaction volume, and entity associations. Unit21 serves over 200 customers across 90 countries.
Kenya's markets regulator seeks blockchain device to observe crypto crime - decrypt. In short. * Kenya's Capital Markets Authority is looking for to purchase a blockchain analytics platform to police the nation's digital property market. * The software would monitor Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a minimum of 20 different networks to flag fraud, cash laundering, terrorism financing, and sanctions evasion. * The transfer follows the Digital Property Service Suppliers Act of 2025, which introduced Kenya's crypto sector beneath formal regulation for the primary time. Kenya's securities regulator needs to purchase a blockchain surveillance system to assist police the nation's fast-growing crypto market, because it prepares to license and supervise digital asset corporations beneath a brand new legislation. The Capital Markets Authority is looking for a complicated blockchain analytics platform to watch digital asset transactions, examine suspicious exercise, and implement compliance, in accordance with tender paperwork seen by Capital FM Africa. The system would observe Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a minimum of 20 different blockchains, each in actual time and retrospectively. Monitoring crypto flows. The platform would generate automated alerts for high-risk wallets, giant transfers, coin mixers, darknet-linked addresses, and sanctioned entities, and display transactions towards United Nations and U.S. Workplace of Overseas Property Management sanctions lists. It might additionally map relationships between wallets, reconstruct transaction timelines, hint funds throughout chains, and assign threat scores tied to cash laundering, ransomware, fraud, and terrorism financing. The regulator mentioned it needs to establish the exchanges most utilized by Kenyans and detect unlicensed offshore platforms serving the native market. The described capabilities mirror these of instruments bought by blockchain intelligence corporations reminiscent of Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and Elliptic, which market comparable software program to governments and regulators worldwide. Kenya's new crypto regime. The acquisition would assist Kenya's Digital Property Service Suppliers Act, which President William Ruto signed into legislation in October and which took impact in November, giving the nation its first complete crypto framework. The legislation splits oversight between the Central Financial institution of Kenya, overlaying funds, stablecoins, and custodial wallets, and the CMA, which regulates exchanges, brokers, funding advisers, and tokenization platforms, a part of a broader push to align with anti-money-laundering requirements set by the Monetary Motion Activity Pressure. No corporations have been licensed but. The Nationwide Treasury printed draft rules in March, and current operators have till November 2026 to conform. Kenya is one in every of Africa's largest crypto markets. Residents acquired about $19 billion in crypto between July 2024 and June 2025, rating the nation fourth on the continent, in accordance with Chainalysis, and greater than six million Kenyans are estimated to make use of digital property, a lot of it by casual, peer-to-peer channels. Kenya is much from alone in reaching for such instruments. Within the U.S., Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved final yr to purchase forensics software program from each TRM Labs and Chainalysis, which already maintain contracts with the FBI, the DEA, and the IRS, whereas Britain's tax authority, HMRC, has introduced on TRM Labs to hint suspect transactions.
MultiHopper, a programmable privacy routing protocol for digital assets, has partnered with TRM Labs to integrate blockchain intelligence for sanctions screening and anti-money laundering controls. The integration, live on Solana, enables private digital asset transfers whilst blocking OFAC-sanctioned, stolen or illicit funds. Unlike traditional privacy solutions such as mixers or shielded pools, MultiHopper operates without commingling assets or offchain components. Each transfer uses a unique wrapper, with TRM intelligence screening funds before they enter or exit the network. The Singapore-based company aims to create regulatory-ready infrastructure for developers, AI agents and institutions. CEO Enigma stated the goal is ensuring bad actors cannot access the rails whilst protecting legitimate users. The solution is available immediately via APIs and consumer platforms.
MultiHopper partners with TRM Labs on compliant private digital asset routing. The integration brings TRM's blockchain intelligence to power sanctions screening, AML controls, and wallet risk scoring into MultiHopper's private programmable on-chain routing layer for digital asset transfers. Singapore, Singapore, 26th Jun 2026 - MultiHopper, the programmable privacy routing protocol for digital assets, today announced a partnership with TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company trusted by leading financial institutions, crypto businesses, governments, and public sector agencies. Through the partnership, MultiHopper is integrating TRM's risk intelligence into its routing architecture to prevent OFAC-sanctioned, stolen, illicit, high-risk and otherwise restricted funds from using MultiHopper's rails. MultiHopper believes this creates an innovative architecture for regulatory-ready private programmable onchain routing: digital asset movement with privacy protections and compliance controls built into the network state itself. The solution is live today on Solana. The announcement comes at a critical moment for crypto privacy. Legacy privacy systems such as mixers, tumblers and shielded pools have repeatedly created regulatory and enforcement risk. Mixers, tumblers and pooled privacy systems became the defining example after being sanctioned by OFAC, which alleged that it had been used to launder billions of dollars of digital assets, including funds stolen by North Korea's Lazarus Group. Other privacy systems have attempted to address this problem with proof-of-innocence style mechanisms. But these approaches still generally sit around privacy pools or shielded environments, protocols or APIs, where funds enter a shared privacy system and compliance assurances are layered around that structure. Unlike other protocols and layers trying to solve the "privacy trilemma", MultiHopper differentiates by having no offchain components and no commingling. It also does not rely heavily on specialized cryptographic systems, which can create challenges when scaling across multiple assets and may be costly to develop, audit and maintain... MultiHopper instead focuses on delivering a primitive which enables compliant onchain private programmable routing infrastructure. This unique approach differentiates significantly from existing approaches which make significant trade-offs in terms of compliance, legality, centralization, expense, and scalability. In most of the aforementioned solutions, the core regulatory risk is that sanctioned, stolen or illicit funds may enter a shared privacy environment and benefit from its anonymity set. In general, regulators do not approve of commingling activity. MultiHopper is designed so that this failure mode should not occur. MultiHopper is designed to screen transfers against TRM intelligence and block identified high-risk funds before they enter or exit the rails. Furthermore, assets cannot commingling as each transfer is a unique wrapper which will never be repeated, by design. "Situations like infamous mixers and tumblers happened because privacy infrastructure allowed tainted funds and bad actors to use the same privacy environment as legitimate users," said Enigma, the CEO and founder of MultiHopper and EnigmaFund Venture Capital. "That is not the model we are building. MultiHopper is compliance-gated private programmable routing. Part of our focus is to ensure that bad actors and their funds should not be able to enter the rails, exit the rails or use the rails. Privacy should protect legitimate users, not sanctioned actors, stolen funds or illicit finance." MultiHopper also differentiates in that it is onchain, never taking assets offchain, while remaining permissionless and non-custodial. Most crypto compliance today exists outside the protocol: in the exchange, the backend, the app, the interface, the custodian or the compliance department. MultiHopper is taking a different approach by adapting TRM's stack into the routing layer itself. The result is a new category of infrastructure: regulatory-ready private programmable onchain routing. For developers, this means APIs for private digital asset movement without inheriting the regulatory dangers of other existing approaches. For AI agents, it means private programmable payment rails with compliance controls designed into the architecture. For wallets, protocols and institutions, it means a privacy routing layer that can reduce public exposure while defending against sanctioned addresses, stolen funds, illicit proceeds and AML risk. MultiHopper's compliance architecture is designed around a simple principle: privacy should not require pooled ambiguity, regulatory blindness or post-facto damage control. The rails should defend themselves at the network level. By integrating TRM's risk intelligence into the architecture, MultiHopper is building private programmable money infrastructure that can be used by serious developers, businesses, agents and institutions. "Currently over $21TN USD of the world's FIAT money passes through SWIFT every day. Double that if you count securities and RWAs. These all use private, compliant and secure rails. For that kind of volume to come to crypto we need an approach to having clean money in the system... especially for private transfers and DeFi. TRM gives us the intelligence we need to enforce that standard." Compliance-locked private programmable routing for digital assets is available immediately on Solana both via APIs for developers and AI agents at https://business.multihopper.com as well as for consumers at https://www.multihopper.com. About MultiHopper MultiHopper is programmable onchain privacy routing infrastructure for digital assets. It enables non-custodial, permissionless routing of digital assets without mixers, tumblers, shielded pools, commingled liquidity or private blockchains. MultiHopper is building regulatory-ready private programmable money infrastructure for developers, AI agents, wallets, protocols and institutions. About TRM Labs TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence solutions that help organizations detect, investigate and disrupt crypto-related financial crime. TRM's platform supports compliance, investigations, wallet screening, transaction monitoring and blockchain intelligence for crypto businesses, financial institutions and public sector agencies. For Press Contact: Khine Zhin