Overview
Chainalysis is a market-leading blockchain intelligence platform built to help organizations trace funds, detect illicit activity, and secure digital asset operations. The company combines proprietary on-chain data, machine learning models, and curated entity labeling to deliver actionable intelligence for law enforcement, regulators, financial institutions, centralized exchanges, and enterprise web3 projects. Chainalysis positions itself as a comprehensive solution for both reactive investigations and proactive risk management—enabling users to go from discovery to enforcement, compliance, or remediation with evidence-quality data.
Core capabilities
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Data-driven investigations: Visualize flows of funds from origin to destination, identify clusters and intermediary services, and build case files that are court-admissible.
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Real-time transaction monitoring: Continuously screen deposits and withdrawals, tailor risk policies, and generate alerts to prevent or reduce exposure to illicit activity.
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Entity and address risk scoring: Assess wallets, virtual asset service providers (VASPs), and entire token ecosystems to prioritize investigations and enforce compliance.
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Cross-chain tracing and coverage: Trace value across bridges, mixers, DEX swaps, and multiple chains with broad and growing blockchain support.
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Web3 security and fraud prevention: Protect protocols, users, and payments with enterprise security tools that identify scams, detect vulnerabilities, and block malicious actors.
Key features (1., 2., 3., 4., 5.)
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Reactor (Investigations): An interactive investigation product for visualizing networks, following transaction paths, and generating investigative leads. Reactor helps uncover real-world services and points of control behind on-chain transactions.
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KYT (Know Your Transaction): A continuous monitoring solution that scores and alerts on suspicious activity, enabling compliance teams to tailor thresholds, reduce false positives, and maintain audit trails.
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Address Screening & VASP Risking: Bulk screening and entity-level risk assessments designed to flag risky addresses or counterparties before onboarding, integrating seamlessly into compliance workflows.
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Hexagate & Alterya: Focused products for web3 security and AI-powered fraud detection—Hexagate for protocol-level defenses and Alterya for payments and consumer fraud prevention.
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Chainalysis Data Solutions (DS): Custom datasets, reporting, and analytics services to support bespoke investigations, regulatory analysis, and strategic decision-making.
The Chainalysis difference
Chainalysis emphasizes data integrity, with rigorous verification processes and machine learning that supports expansive clustering heuristics. Their platform stresses complete blockchain coverage—onboarding new chains and supporting token standards quickly to ensure compatibility. Cross-chain tracing capabilities simplify complex flows across bridges and decentralized infrastructure. Notably, Chainalysis data has been used as evidence in high-profile cases, which underscores the platform’s reliability for legal and regulatory use.
The company also highlights its global support model: localized teams, 24/7 assistance, and domain expertise in diverse threat typologies to help customers operationalize advanced investigative techniques.
Who uses it and why
Chainalysis serves a broad set of industries including law enforcement, regulators, centralized exchanges, financial institutions, tax agencies, DeFi projects, consumer brands, and cybersecurity teams. Trusted statistics cited by the platform include over 1,500 customers, nine of the top ten crypto exchanges, more than $34 billion in illicit funds frozen or recovered with Chainalysis data, and adoption by 45+ regulators—evidence of the platform’s widespread industry adoption and mission-critical use.
Recommended reasons
- Comprehensive tooling for both investigations and transaction monitoring.
- Proven, court-admissible data that supports enforcement and regulatory outcomes.
- Scalable cross-chain coverage that keeps pace with the evolving crypto ecosystem.
- Dedicated services and support, including bespoke data solutions and Chainalysis Labs innovation.
For teams seeking to reduce fraud, improve compliance posture, or scale investigative capacity in web3, Chainalysis combines authoritative data with practical tools that address the full lifecycle of blockchain intelligence—from detection and analysis to enforcement and remediation.
