Preventing fraud and financial crime for digital currencies

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🚨 Introducing Beacon Network: The first real-time crypto crime response network. Exchanges, issuers, and law enforcement can now trace funds instantly — and act before criminals cash out. Learn more: trmlink.info/41fyPXw #BeaconNetwork #TRMLabs
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Yesterday, Europol announced the dismantling of AudiA6, a crypto laundering service that processed EUR 336 million for ransomware gangs across 15 international investigations — including the 2022 LastPass breach. Two operators were charged with money laundering and arrested in Batumi, Georgia. TRM data explains why AudiA6 was a priority target: the top five ransomware off-ramp services absorb 42–57% of total volume annually, across 600 available options. AudiA6 was one of them — 80% of its USD 79M in traced illicit exposure ties to ransomware, with ALPHV BlackCat, Qilin, and LockBit among the 20 groups using it. Full analysis ➡️ trmlink.info/4utjluz
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TRM Labs has been named to Fortune's 2026 Crypto Innovators list — 30 organizations advancing the global digital asset ecosystem through innovation, infrastructure, security, and research, beyond traditional measures of scale. Thanks to @fortune for the recognition. Disrupting crypto-enabled crime at scale creates a safer world for all — and we’re proud to do this work. 🔗: fortune.com/2026/06/11/crypt…
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⚽️ Day one of the 2026 World Cup — and crypto scam infrastructure is already spinning up. TRM is tracking multiple distinct operations targeting fans. Volume is low now, but expected to scale fast. The playbook is consistent: stand up a site, publish a crypto receiving address, convert traffic before takedown, then move proceeds through cross-chain swaps. Full analysis and how to stay safe ➡️ trmlink.info/4fBYP7v
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🎰 On-chain crypto gambling hit USD 51 billion in 2025 — expanding through a market correction that contracted most other on-chain categories. Q1 2026 volume held at USD 14 billion, more than 5x what the sector recorded in Q1 2021. New wallet acquisition has fallen roughly 54% from its 2022 peak, but returning wallets grew approximately 4x over the same period — a sign of a sector that has moved from speculative experiment to habitual, event-driven retail participation. TRM analyzed four years of transaction data across eight blockchains and more than two million personal wallets. Our analysts identified five behavioral archetypes and the illicit activity attached to a sector that scaled to this size largely outside the regulatory spotlight. Full analysis here 👉 trmlink.info/43sF6zK
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TRM's newest competitive intelligence team members are named after two women from WWII-era intelligence history — and they’re both AI agents. Noor researches and briefs. Then Vera reviews and validates Noor’s work. Together, they’ve turned a monthly, manual process into a weekly one requiring less than five minutes of human involvement per cycle. Learn how we built them 👉 trmlink.info/4vx7SLE
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Today, TRM Labs filed our comment on FinCEN and OFAC's proposed rule implementing the AML/CFT and sanctions compliance provisions of the GENIUS Act. Read our full response here: trmlink.info/4v6jeqe
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From Ripple GC to leading California's crypto licensing regime. @CaliforniaDFPI’s Brynly Llyr's journey is the case for moving between the public and private sectors — and bridging them effectively. Hear her tell her story to @ARedbord on this episode of #TRMTalks 👉 trmlink.info/4e0PaVk
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The criminal agent has a unified context window over the full attack. The defender has seven browser tabs. That's the structural gap in crypto crime defense — and it's not a data problem. In our latest post on the TRM Tech Blog, Sree Gopinath (Engineering Manager, Data Product at TRM) explores the architecture that would close it. 👇 trmlink.info/3PRWg6S
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TRM Labs is partnering with @SuiNetwork to explore how compliance and risk monitoring can function within their new confidential transfer model — where balances and amounts stay private. Sui keeps sender/receiver addresses visible, lets issuers define access policy, and maintains audit trails. TRM surfaces risk signals within that structure — without requiring public exposure of underlying financial data.
Confidential transfers are live in public beta on Sui Devnet. Transfer amounts and balances are private, with controlled visibility for compliance and auditability. What this means for finance workflows: 🧵
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TRM's crypto businesses team makes sense of how value actually moves on-chain — understanding the patterns, and turning that understanding into something useful. We’re hiring for Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering, Crypto. Learn more and apply 👉 trmlink.info/3Fdug8p #hiring #TRMcareers
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Fraud today, money laundering tomorrow. The infrastructure connecting them is the same — and it's industrializing. TRM Labs' Jonno Newman joined the panel at #FFC2026 this week to unpack scam factories, mule networks, crypto flows, and the professional gatekeepers exploiting major financial hubs. @RegulationAsia
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🗽 Earlier this week, nearly 200 leaders gathered in NYC for #TRMSummit. The room brought together banks, fintechs, crypto exchanges, asset managers, regulators, investigators, and compliance teams — a mix you don’t often get in one place. A lot of the conversation focused on where financial crime, compliance, and digital assets are headed next, with discussions about #stablecoins, sanctions evasion, tokenization, privacy, and more. And yes, #AI was everywhere. As more compliance work becomes automated, augmented, and AI-assisted, these kinds of in-person conversations start to matter even more. Thank you to every speaker, customer, partner, and friend who participated!
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OFAC designated four Iranian domestic crypto exchanges on June 2: Nobitex, Bit Pin, Wallex, and Ramzinex. TRM data: the According to TRM data, the four exchanges processed roughly USD 7.7 billion in 2025, approximately 78% of Iran's USD 9.9 billion in attributed crypto volume that year. This is the third OFAC enforcement action targeting Iran's crypto infrastructure in five months. Read TRM’s full breakdown here: trmlink.info/4dMIzzb
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TRM was proud to support DOJ’s Eastern Europe Cryptocurrency Working Group last week — bringing together 40 investigators from more than 10 countries, building capacity together.
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TRM Labs is at ISS World Europe in Prague this week, June 2–4. The event brings law enforcement, defense, and intelligence communities together to keep pace with how AI and cross-border complexity are reshaping investigations. 🎤 TRM’s Simon Warren will be presenting on Track 3, Tuesday and Wednesday. Find the team at booth 119.
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California's Digital Financial Assets Law goes live July 1. Coming Wednesday on #TRMTalks: Brynly Llyr (Deputy Commissioner at @CaliforniaDFPI) joins @ARedbord to walk through what it means for crypto businesses. Follow TRM Talks on Spotify to be the first to tune in 👉 open.spotify.com/show/2f9v6M…
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TRM's solutions architecture team used to spend 15 hours a week decoding vendor API docs. So Todd Soderstrom (Senior Integration Engineer) built an AI agent to do it in one. In our latest “Meet the Agent” blog post, meet Mycroft — an agent that turns a vendor's API documentation into a working, tested, production-ready tool. Read the full build story ➡️ trmlink.info/4uK1D7i
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The Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing (FFIS) just published the most comprehensive comparative study of fraud-risk intelligence sharing ever conducted — 37 platforms, global scope. One finding stands out: Beacon Network is the only platform in the survey with cross-border virtual asset tracing capability. Every other platform operates within traditional financial data. The impact is measurable: ➡️ $34M frozen after Beacon Network alerts tracked suspect funds crossing a virtual asset bridge in real time ➡️ 100% block rate on flagged scam addresses via bridge API ➡️ 90 law enforcement agencies from 21 countries coordinating with 70 private sector members The paper closes with a FATF call to action — 91% of platforms surveyed say cross-border sharing is essential, yet most do almost none of it. Beacon Network is already operating in that gap. 🔗 Read the full FFIS paper here: future-fis.com/fraudplatform…
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Ankush Sharma leads blockchain data engineering at TRM. When AI output started outpacing the team's review and operating systems, he didn't add more tooling — he rebuilt how the org operates. New on the TRM Tech Blog — learn how the data engineering team hit 125% of their Q1 OKRs, onboarded chains at 3x the previous record, and redesigned engineering around one core insight: when generation gets cheap, review quality and judgment become the bottleneck. 🔗: trmlink.info/49palPC
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Today, the UK designated Huobi, Exmo, Bitpapa, Rapira, and 14 other entities for Russian sanctions evasion. Read TRM’s full analysis here ➡️ trmlink.info/4e5z6D0
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