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Challenges and Opportunities in Cryptocurrency Sanctions Compliance and How Blockchain Analysis Can Help
This year, the research team at Chainalysis found that illicit activity in crypto reached an all-time high in 2022. Why?…
Crypto Money Laundering: Four Exchange Deposit Addresses Received Over $1 Billion in Illicit Funds in 2022
Money laundering is crucial to all financially motivated crime because it’s what enables criminals to access the funds they generate…
Ransomware Revenue Down As More Victims Refuse to Pay
2022 was an impactful year in the fight against ransomware. Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million from victims in…
2023 Crypto Crime Trends: Illicit Cryptocurrency Volumes Reach All-Time Highs Amid Surge in Sanctions Designations and Hacking
Every year, we publish our estimates of illicit cryptocurrency activity to demonstrate the power of blockchains’ transparency – these kinds…
How 2022’s Biggest Cryptocurrency Sanctions Designations Affected Crypto Crime
Agencies like the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and its equivalents in…
Latin America’s Key Crypto Adoption Drivers: Storing Value, Sending Remittances, and Seeking Alpha
Latin America is the seventh largest cryptocurrency market in our index this year, with citizens of Latin America countries receiving…
Eastern Europe’s Crypto Market Active, With Spikes in Last Year Driven by Russia-Ukraine War
Eastern Europe is the fifth-largest cryptocurrency market we study, with $630.9 billion in value received on-chain between July 2021 and…
Middle East & North Africa’s Crypto Markets Grow More Than Any Other Region in 2022
Middle East & North Africa (MENA) may be one of the smaller crypto markets in the 2022 Global Crypto Adoption…
How Cryptocurrency Meets Residents’ Economic Needs in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-saharan Africa accounts for the least cryptocurrency transaction volume of any region we study, with $100.6 billion in on-chain volume…
Crypto Adoption Steadies in South Asia, Soars in the Southeast
Central & Southern Asia and Oceania (CSAO) is the third largest region in our global crypto adoption index this year, with citizens of CSAO countries receiving $932 billion in cryptocurrency. It's also home to seven of the top twenty countries by rank. In this Geography of Cryptocurrency Report preview, we explain why.
The 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Index: Emerging Markets Lead in Grassroots Adoption, China Remains Active Despite Ban, and Crypto Fundamentals Appear Healthy
We’re excited to share with you Chainalysis’ 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Index. For the third consecutive year, we ranked all…
How The Ethereum Merge May Impact the Crypto Ecosystem: On-chain Indicators to Watch
On or around September 15, 2022, the Ethereum blockchain (Eth) is expected to switch its consensus mechanism from proof-of-work (PoW)…
Mid-year Crypto Crime Update: Illicit Activity Falls With Rest of Market, With Some Notable Exceptions
2022 has been a tumultuous year for cryptocurrency markets, with significant price declines across all currencies in May and June.…
Trolls Have Sent an Estimated $52,000 in Small Tornado Cash Payments Following OFAC Designation
Earlier this week, Tornado Cash became the second ever mixer and first ever DeFi protocol to be sanctioned by OFAC.…
Vulnerabilities in Cross-chain Bridge Protocols Emerge as Top Security Risk
Following last night’s exploit of the Nomad Bridge, Chainalysis estimates that $2 billion in cryptocurrency has been stolen across 13…