Train Like a Professional: Rethinking Crypto Investigation Training
Multiple recent assessments point to persistent skill and capacity shortfalls in crypto-investigation training: Europol and Eurojust describe persistent obstacles, including anonymization services and data-access frictions, and are standing up training specifically to improve investigation capacity. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) points to uneven implementation of virtual asset standards and responds with large-scale public-sector training and case-study exchanges. Industry interviews likewise note that many agencies still lack the training to follow on-chain flows, where targeted instruction materially improves outcomes.
Taken together, the gap is real, but not new. For example, a CNA study for the U.S. Department…
