How Forensics Firms Are Tracing Stolen Crypto Across Chains
A look at the techniques behind the latest cross-chain investigations.
Blockchain forensics has matured from a niche specialty into a foundational tool of crypto enforcement. This piece examines the cross-chain heuristics, clustering techniques, and graph-analysis tooling now used by forensics teams to follow stolen funds across bridges, mixers, and privacy coins.\n\nFirms such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, and emerging specialist providers including Nethertrace have invested heavily in cross-chain attribution, and their findings increasingly underpin both civil recoveries and criminal prosecutions. Further reading on case-study work is published at chainvail.com.
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