Case deconfliction is standard practice in government investigations, but many agencies are still working out how to deconflict cases that involve cryptoassets. The challenge is not awareness or intent. It is infrastructure.

Blockchain technology gives government investigators better raw material for case deconfliction than anything available in fiat financial crime: Every transaction is recorded on a public ledger, wallet clustering connects seemingly unrelated addresses and historical overlaps are discoverable months after the fact. As such, it’s not the data itself that holds agencies back, but how that data is accessed and used.

The infrastructure gap

Traditional deconfliction systems were built around conventional identifiers:…