And that dynamic reality of ever-escalating 10-foot walls and 11-foot ladders gets a shot in the arm when applied across the cryptocurrency and blockchain finance landscape. Crypto-related crime, after all, has grown more sophisticated, and increasingly, more automated. Fraud networks, laundering schemes, and illicit marketplaces are beginning to leverage AI to scale their operations.

But the Tuesday (March 31) announcement that blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis is launching blockchain intelligence agents designed for fraud prevention shows that the industry’s response to AI-driven crypto…