2025 delivered a major increase in challenges, from complex fraud and sophisticated Web3 hacks to multi-jurisdictional investigations. Yet, empowered by Chainalysis’ unmatched data, new product innovations, and strong partnerships, our customers tackled this landscape head-on, leading to a year of unparalleled success and record-breaking results.
Law enforcement has long relied on Chainalysis, having seized $12.6B in illicit assets to date, but this year marked an inflection point. An additional $21.4B was seized or recovered, a 180% increase year-over-year.
U.S. and U.K. authorities advanced a first-of-its-kind $15B forfeiture tied to a Southeast Asia scam network, proving that industrialized criminal infrastructure can be mapped and disrupted at scale.
APAC law enforcement, OKX, Binance, Tether and Chainalysis traced pig-butchering scam flows into consolidation points, freezing criminal funds.
Project Atlas and Operation Avalanche identified $74M+ in scam losses from 2,000+ victim wallets across 12+ countries, enabling exchanges to freeze tens of millions before additional losses occurred.
Following the $1.5B Bybit hack, Greece’s AML authority executed its first-ever crypto seizure, establishing a new precedent for sanctions-driven cyber enforcement.
Peer-reviewed research found Chainalysis to be most accurate with highest coverage, delivering up to ~95% coverage of tested illicit services with false positives below ~0.01%.
Trace across 300+ bridges and 325M+ swaps with unmatched clarity.
New growth financing from Hercules Capital accelerates our continued investment in AI technologies to expand our data advantage, enabling more automated workflows and new use cases for blockchain analytics.
Rapid is the industry’s first AI-powered crypto triage solution, letting any investigator, regardless of crypto experience, to quickly see if there’s something actionable or nothing at all. 
Reactor was rebuilt for investigative clarity, speed, and cross-chain scale. From transaction interpretations, to automatic graph layouts, to blazing performance that loads massive graphs instantly, Reactor helps analysts robustly trace and present complex fund flows.
Solve real-world cases using the latest Reactor features and learn tips and tricks along the way.
Blockchain evidence, traced with Chainalysis Reactor, played a key role in supporting Microsoft’s first civil enforcement action regarding RaccoonO365.
Wallet Scan launched to support crypto asset seizure. Convert seed phrases into public keys offline, automatically identifying all associated wallets and balances across multiple blockchains.
“Through Wallet Scan, we identified and recovered $11.4 million in funds that were missed during the initial wallet reconstruction in 2019 due to derivation paths that were unknown at the time.”
– US Government agency
i2 Group and Chainalysis teamed up to integrate Chainalysis data directly into Analyst’s Notebook, providing investigators a holistic view of on- and off-chain criminal intelligence.
Sentinel gives token issuers continuous intelligence on illicit activity so they can freeze suspicious funds, enforce blocklists, and maintain regulatory confidence as their tokens scale.
Teams gained tighter control over alerts and enabled streamlined workflows. New KYT features, including dynamic lookback windows, enhanced rule thresholds, automatic assignments, and user-property based optimizations, help compliance teams reduce false positives and accelerate alert review.
Our new strategic partnership with Chainlink brings Chainalysis risk intelligence into Chainlink’s interoperability layer, enabling automated, cross‑chain compliance controls as institutions expand across fragmented ecosystems.
Chainalysis integrating compliance tools directly into Hadron by Tether, establishing the security standard for real-world asset tokenization.
Alterya provides real-time, proactive fraud prevention by using AI to identify scam accounts at inception, allowing customers to block funds before a victim reports the loss
Alterya’s fraud data is leveraged from financial institutions, to exchanges, to the public sector to take down scams at a community-wide scale. From just 5,000 reported scam webpages, a regulatory agency leveraged Alterya to map 25 seizable accounts and identify over $300 million in scam loss funds.
Hexagate delivers adaptive, real-time, on-chain security to detect everything from key compromises to phishing and governance attacks.
Instantly detect and stop cryptocurrency wallet drain attempts with machine learning models that adapt to hackers techniques and activity on your platform.
$1.5B ByBit hack highlighted the urgency of operational vulnerabilities. Hexagate GateSigner provides crucial protection against blind signing and real-time transaction threats. It runs pre-signing simulations to analyze, flag, and auto-deny risky transactions before a signature occurs.
Protocol monitoring and community action secured $13M, turning a major Venus hack into a swift recovery victory.
“This incident reminds us how important it is to have the appropriate security measures in place to guard against bad actors. We couldn’t have done it alone. Threat detection and response measures like what Hexagate offers are vital to prevent catastrophes.”
– Venus Labs Core Member
Chainalysis DS enables you to visualize threat landscapes and automate with customizable monitoring and alerting.
Define and continuously track any emerging activity and automate analysis to prioritize and generate leads for immediate, actionable alerts.
Boosting compliance and risk assessment capabilities, Chainalysis DS now features Asset Issuer Enforcement Events for streamlined access to multi-chain freezes and blacklists, along with Geo-Signals for critical geographical intelligence on entity activity.
Coinbase targeted the crypto nexus of fentanyl trafficking as part of their proactive risk management strategy. They tracked and mapped 17,000+ crypto transactions and resulted in 41 intelligence packages distributed across 12 countries.
Chainalysis Academy issued over 16k certifications across 11 languages for customers in investigations, compliance and foundational knowledge.
In 2025, the Global Services team supported 412 investigations, delivering tactical guidance, deploying advanced investigative capabilities, and enhancing blockchain intelligence for clients worldwide.
We launched specialized programs like the Chainalysis Asset Seizure Certification (CASC) to standardize investigation and asset recovery skills.
2025 reaffirmed that lasting progress is built together. When trusted intelligence, capable technology, and mission-driven teams align, insight becomes action at scale.
The outcomes this year were driven by you. Your efforts recovered billions, protected users, and strengthened trust in markets that now underpin the global financial system. We’re proud to support that work with the intelligence, capabilities, and expertise you rely on every day.
As we look to 2026, your priorities will continue to shape what we build next. Thank you for your partnership, and Happy New Year from all of us at Chainalysis.