• Key insight: AI agents are aiding crypto crime and fraud investigations.
• What’s at stake: Scams using AI generate an average of $3.2 million per operation, compared to $719,000 for those that don’t, according to Chainalysis’ 2026 Crypto Crime Report.

Agentic AI is helping crypto crime investigators talk with fraudsters and understand what they’re doing. It’s helping research the circumstances around suspicious crypto transactions. And it’s helping inexperienced financial crime investigators understand the cases to which they’re assigned.
These AI assists come at a time when more banks are thinking about offering crypto trading to their customers. It also comes at a time when scammers and criminals are increasingly using AI in their work….