My job is straightforward: help keep people safe, enforce court orders, and work alongside law enforcement to uphold the rule of law. Every day, I see firsthand the impact crime has on Arizona families. Increasingly, those crimes are moving online, and cryptocurrency is becoming a common tool for fraudsters and criminal organizations.

While cryptocurrency advocates tout innovation and economic opportunity, those of us on the front lines see a different side of the story. We see retirees lose their life savings to investment scams. We see criminals use digital assets to move money across borders and beyond the reach of traditional financial safeguards. And we see victims left with little recourse because cryptocurrency…