Tron, Tether, and blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis have launched a joint effort to hunt down and disrupt criminal activity involving the USDT stablecoin, just weeks after a nearly identical alliance, with a different analytics partner, quietly fell apart.

Announced Wednesday, the Digital Crime Task Force aims to identify illicit activity involving Tether’s USDT on the Tron blockchain and surface it for law enforcement before criminals can move their funds.

The pitch is a shift from reactive to proactive: rather than waiting for a victim to report a crime or an investigator to flag tainted funds, the group says it will proactively trace criminal networks and coordinate asset freezes, drawing on…