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🗓️ Mark your calendars Elliptic’s Mark Aruliah is speaking at the SAS Customer Connection for Fraud and Financial Crimes event this week. 📍 October 22–24, 2025 📌 SAS Institute, Heidelberg, Germany This event brings together industry leaders to explore how evolving technologies, data, and advanced analytics are transforming the fight against fraud and financial crime. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with Mark and learn how Elliptic equips teams with accurate, actionable, decisioning for every digital asset. See you there. #Elliptic

🔎 💔 Spotting pig butchering scams starts with understanding how they move money. Our latest blog reveals how blockchain transparency can be used to trace and disrupt these large-scale fraud networks. From on-chain red flags to laundering techniques like chain-peeling and cross-chain movement, we break down the behaviors compliance teams and investigators need to know. 💡 With the right data and intelligence, VASPs can take proactive steps to protect users and prevent abuse. 👇 Read the blog in the comments below. #Elliptic

☕️ A morning well spent with 120+ industry leaders. Earlier this week at DAS London, we co-hosted a morning session with Zodia Custody bringing together leading voices from across the digital asset space. Conversation focused on what’s next: scaling institutional adoption, building market confidence, and the growing role of compliance and regulated infrastructure in driving the next phase of the industry. Thank you to everyone who joined us and made it such a great start to the week. #Elliptic

Crypto regulation is ramping up worldwide. The UK has lifted its ban on crypto ETNs for retail investors. Regulated exchanges can now offer these products, supported by new tax rules that allow them in ISAs and pensions. The Bank of England is also reviewing proposed stablecoin holding limits, signalling a shift in regulatory approach. In the US, the SEC plans to introduce an innovation exemption for certain crypto activities. Dubai’s VARA has issued penalties to unlicensed firms, reinforcing local licensing rules. Meanwhile, the EU is considering expanding ESMA’s supervisory role under MiCA. 👇 Link in the comments for full insights.

Yesterday, the US Treasury and UK authorities sanctioned 146 targets within the Prince Group Transnational Criminal Organization for operating pig butchering scams. These types of scams have defrauded Americans of over $16.6 billion. The DOJ also unsealed an indictment against Prince Group chairman Chen Zhi and seized approximately 127,271 Bitcoin valued at $15 billion, the largest forfeiture action in DOJ history. Our team immediately made the newly-designated addresses available to screen and trace using our Holistic blockchain analytics technology. This meant that our customers do not inadvertently process funds connected to the newly sanctioned entities. This case shows how blockchain transparency enables authorities to work together in disrupting illicit financial flows. Read our full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/gDtRXhgp

🚨 US authorities seize $15 billion, revealing Prince Group's connection to Iran-China bitcoin mining "theft" 🚨 The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the seizure of bitcoin worth $15 billion from Prince Group's operation of forced-labor scam compounds across Cambodia. This represents the largest ever forfeiture action by the US government. Elliptic’s analysis shows that these bitcoins were “stolen” in 2020 from LuBian, a bitcoin mining business with operations in China and Iran. Read more ➡️ https://hubs.la/Q03NxW4l0

💸 Follow the money, not the drugs. Cryptocurrency is increasingly part of the financial infrastructure behind drug trafficking, but it also gives investigators unprecedented visibility. In the DEA’s largest-ever crypto seizure, digital asset analysis played a critical role in uncovering a $150M operation, integrating seamlessly with traditional investigative methods and enabling large-scale asset forfeiture. 💡 Learn how crypto evidence is strengthening cases and exposing entire criminal networks: https://lnkd.in/gQzx85JP #Elliptic #BlockchainIntelligence

🚨 How are criminals exploiting AI in the crypto ecosystem today? Criminals are using AI to create deepfakes, bypass KYC with synthetic IDs, and impersonate VASP executives — enabling more convincing and scalable scams. Our latest Typologies Report explores how these threats are evolving, and how compliance teams and law enforcement can respond using clear red flag indicators and blockchain analytics to detect and disrupt AI-enabled crime. Read the blog ➡️ : https://lnkd.in/gxV7mpwU #Elliptic #TheTypologiesReport

🎯 Inside Elliptic’s 10 billion wallet crypto-intelligence platform Each month, we process billions of blockchain transactions — analyzing activity across 50+ blockchains, 70+ cross-chain bridges, and tens of thousands of digital assets. To handle this scale, we built a graph-based platform that models fund flows across 10B+ wallets , updating in real time with precision and speed. In our latest blog, Director of Engineering Joey Capper, shares how we made it possible with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the infrastructure decisions that support real-time risk detection across the crypto ecosystem. Learn how we: - Built a graph to model wallet-level fund flows - Structured data for real-time graph traversal and investigations - Tackled extreme transaction volume and skewed data distributions - Scaled reliably using AWS-native infrastructure 👉 Read the full breakdown: https://hubs.la/Q03MXWKq0 #Elliptic #AWS