A major stumbling block that crypto exchanges face is the issue of price manipulation and the lack of sufficient monitoring and surveillance tools to address these concerns on a daily operating basis. Until progress is made in this area, the SEC and major institutional players will not embrace cryptocurrencies going forward. Two former fintech engineers from Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) have decided to do something about this glaring need. Their U.S.-based crypto surveillance startup has just raised $3 million in seed funding.

Solidus Labs, provider of a machine learning and artificial intelligence-powered trade surveillance platform for digital assets, announced that its million funding was secured by the early-stage investment firm Hanaco…