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Triage trace
A focused flow-of-funds trace from the victim's transactions to the first off-ramps and consolidation points, with a written summary of what was found and what the realistic next steps are.
Forensic tracing for cryptocurrency scam victims, civil litigation, and attorneys pursuing recovery, built by a former Chainalysis engineer who co-instructed federal cryptocurrency-investigation training. Documented methodology, honest scope, no false promises.
The chain remembers. A careful trace turns transactions into a story a court can read.
Blockchain tracing reconstructs where funds went and surfaces the exchanges and services in the path. It is a foundation for investigation and recovery efforts, not a guarantee that money comes back. Every engagement says so up front.
A focused flow-of-funds trace from the victim's transactions to the first off-ramps and consolidation points, with a written summary of what was found and what the realistic next steps are.
An extended investigation suitable for civil litigation: documented methodology, exchange and service attribution where the data supports it, and a report structured to coordinate with counsel and, where appropriate, support a law-enforcement referral.
Recovery is genuinely rare, and no consumer-facing tracing service should promise it. Reports are written to be defensible: what the evidence shows, what it doesn't, and where the analysis reaches the limits of available data.
Honesty is the product. It's also what holds up under scrutiny.
Pig-butchering and romance-scam victims and their families who need a clear, honest picture of where the funds went.
Counsel pursuing recovery who need defensible flow-of-funds analysis and a report that coordinates with the litigation.
A specialist resource for advocates and elder-law practitioners who encounter cryptocurrency fraud and need a trusted referral.
Customer Success Engineer with direct experience deploying airgapped blockchain-investigation solutions for U.S. and foreign government agencies.
Co-instructed cryptocurrency-investigation training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Brunswick, GA.
Direct working knowledge of clustering heuristics, attribution methodology, and the operational limits of commercial blockchain-analysis platforms.
Active development of proprietary tracing tooling, graph analysis and report automation, beyond what free-tool-only services offer.
Public writeups on how cryptocurrency forensics fits into a contested matter, in language a family-law or civil practitioner can hand to a client or put in front of a court.
When the other side says cryptocurrency "moved to another blockchain," the implication is that the money is now beyond reach. In the common case, that is a bluff, not a vanishing act. Bridges preserve a joinable record on both legs of a transfer. Mixers, by design, cryptographically sever a specific link. The two are conflated more often than they should be.
What you can credibly tell a judge depends entirely on which one you are looking at. A bridge usually means the path is reconstructable from public records and can be documented to a standard that withstands challenge. A mixer means the right analysis says so plainly while pursuing the off-chain evidence that survives.
Standard financial discovery, subpoenaing the bank, the brokerage, the employer, sweeps right past self-custodied cryptocurrency because there is no custodian to compel. The strongest first evidence usually isn't on the blockchain at all. It is in records you may already have access to: bank statements, credit reports, tax filings, and properly directed exchange subpoenas show the fiat on-ramps. That gap, between dollars that went in and assets that came back out, is where the on-chain trail actually begins.
Two distinctions matter once an asset surfaces, and getting them wrong can send a case sideways: an address is not control, and valuation date is its own problem.
A blockchain tracing report is expert opinion, not measurement. The ledger underneath it is the only part that qualifies as fact. Almost everything else, the clustering, the attribution labels, the assumption of key control, the tracing method through commingled addresses, the completeness claims, and the valuation, is interpretation, and interpretation is what the rules of evidence let you test.
Six places confident reports tend to break down, framed for attorneys under Daubert and the December 2023 amendments to Federal Rule of Evidence 702. Applies anywhere a tracing report shows up: divorce, civil fraud, asset recovery, probate, and bankruptcy.
Reach out for an honest conversation about whether a trace can help, and what it realistically can and can't do. No crypto payments accepted from victims.