In 2025, illicit crypto volume reached USD 158 billion. Scam proceeds accounted for an estimated USD 30 billion of that total, while hack-related theft added another USD 2.87 billion. No investigator can manually triage data at that scale — and they don’t have to. 

From the start, blockchain intelligence platforms like TRM Labs were built with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities to help investigators make sense of the massive amounts of data involved in blockchain investigations — clustering addresses, mapping flows, scoring risk, surfacing typologies across multi-chain environments. And it brings the amount of time necessary to perform these tasks down to minutes rather than days. 

However, when…